The Humbling Effect of Big Data
Many of us walk around with the knowledge that we generally understand how the world works. When people ask us…
Is LinkedIn One Step Away from Becoming the World’s Largest Performance Management System?
I got an email today from some former colleagues (and current friends), adding me to a project listing on LinkedIn.…
Mobile Browsers Failing Security Tests
Blame Screen Size: Mobile Browsers Flunk Security Tests - Georgia Tech researchers have found that 90% of mobile browsers have…
Decision Management and the Idiocy of “Video Bills”
Listening to Marketplace yesterday I heard a piece on AT&T’s new “video bills.” Now I am sure this sounds cute to…
Using the Close as a Finance Department Diagnostic
Earlier this year we published our Trends in Developing the Fast, Clean Close benchmark research findings. The most significant was that, on…
GoodData Rides BI in the Cloud for Business Value
GoodData has been around since 2007, but it has seen especially explosive growth in the last year due to the fast…
The Big Deal in Big Data is a Big Opportunity
Big data was big news in 2012 and probably in 2013 too. The Harvard Business Review talks about it as The…
Embracing Chaos: Big Data Could Define A New Steady State for IT
In his new book, Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the bestselling author of The Black Swan, calls “antifragile”…
Is Big Data The New Term for Business Intelligence?
The term “business intelligence” was first coined by IBM researcher Hans Luhn in 1958, and then used in its modern…
Big Data Will Get Bigger, What Do You Plan to Do?
The Internet is a treasure trove of data, an information mine literally. Unbelievably massive amounts of data are churned out…
