Predictive Analytics Gets Closer
I am always a little shocked by a company’s resistance to using predictive analytics. My guess is that is a…
DQ-Tip: “Don’t pass bad data on to the next person…”
Data Quality (DQ) Tips is a new regular segment. Each DQ-Tip is a clear and concise data quality pearl of…
Stop Justifying Data Quality Programs and Do the DQ Work Already!
In a recent discussion with a good friend, I learned that they are in the middle of justifying their work…
The Mythbusters and Statistics
I love the TV show "Mythbusters." If you've never seen the show, it's great. (A new season starts this week…
One KPI Is Never Enough to Manage… A Country?
This article in the International Herald Tribune (slowly becoming the “global edition of the New York Times”) gives an overview…
Building Trust with Consumers: Is Disclosure Enough?
As the fourth quarter approaches, think about the number of transactions that will occur online—many through email—and the amount of…
How can we judge enterprise-class CTOs and CIOs? Rank them on the Kundra Scale
I’ve had the pleasure of watching and studying many enterprise class CIOs and CTOs. And I’ve performed CIO duties and…
A Company is like a Sphere
Where do these great analogy ideas come from? Full credit - I got this one from a speaker at the…
The Fragility of Knowledge
In his excellent book The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, Nassim Nicholas Taleb explains: “What you don’t…
Present for the past
A question from Sabir Hasan in Saudi Arabia: I have always been facing a confusion between past and present in…