Transparent Text Symposium
One of the unexpected benefits of accepting an invitation to speak at SIGMOD 2009 was an invitation from fellow participant…
How to Create and Deploy Effective Metrics
I’m trying to catch up on a big backlog of materials and documents and documents that I’ve found useful… Here’s…
Always Be Closing
Originally posted on erp.com. One of my favorite movies is Wall Street. Near the end of the movie, Gordon Gekko…
A coincidence occurred. Film at 11.
BBC News reported yesterday that the Bulgarian lottery is under investigation because the same six numbers were drawn two weeks…
Beating The Placebo Effect: Red Pill or Blue?
Placebo pills routinely beat Big Pharma medications in clinical trials. As more drugs fail to make the cut due to…
You Call This Mobile CRM?
Not too long ago, I saw an interesting article on mobile coupons titled Coupons You Don’t Clip, Sent to Your…
Blogs I Read: The Haystack Blog
It’s been quite the week in tech business news, with Adobe acquiring Omniture, Google acquiring reCAPTCHA and being rumored (falsely)…
Do You Need an Extra Brain?
I don’t write too much about new software here. Fact is, In many cases I’m not the early adopter some…
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…
