The Story and Meaning Behind My New Book Twittfaced
Twittfaced, the book I wrote with Josh Peters, is coming out in just around a month and now that everything…
I’ll show you mine if you show me yours…
Analysts don't usually quote predictive model performance. Data Mining within each industry is different, and even within the telecommunications industry…
Practical Change Management: The Top Ten Countdown – No. 7
CONTEXT IS EVERYTHING Susan Cramm’s Harvard Business Review blog post, “How Are You Defying Best Practice?” is an excellent summary…
Commendable Comments (Part 1)
Six month ago today, I launched this blog by asking: Do you have obsessive-compulsive data quality (OCDQ)? As of September…
Micro vs. Macro Information Retrieval
The Probably Irrelevant blog has been quiet for a while, but I was happy to see a new post there…
Practical Change Management: The Top Ten Countdown – No. 8
YOU’RE NOT GOING TO GET SUPPORT FROM EVERYONE That’s okay – keep going. You need to get the right people…
Do More With Less… No! Choose wisely
Companies have fewer resources today, fewer people to work on projects. ‘Doing more with less’ does not equate to working…
Practical Change Management: The Top Ten Countdown – No. 9
CLEAR, INFLUENTIAL SPONSORSHIP IS A MUST BEFORE YOU BEGIN Executive sponsors are the people with enough position authority to put…
Practical Change Management: The Top Ten Countdown – No. 10
LEARN TO LEAD CHANGE BECAUSE (1) YOU CAN, and (2) IT DIRECTLY IMPACTS RESULTS The rate of change is exponentially…
Lessons Learned From a (Real) Fire Zone: Keep Your Friends Close, and Twitter Closer
So, after raging more than 10 days, consuming over 160,000 acres, and destroying nearly 80 homes and dozens of other…