Data Virtualization: 6 Best Practices to Help the Business ‘get it’
Something that doesn’t get talked about enough in the service orientation world is data virtualization. That is, it’s handy to…
Connecting Data Governance to Business Outcomes That Matter
Process-centric initiatives are often optimal approaches for the things that companies want to accomplish. Business processes make it possible to…
‘Google-like IT Automation For the Rest of Us:’ Puppet and Chef
Wired’s Cade Metz just published an interesting piece on the Puppet and Chef projects, open source-based online services for automating…
Updates on Dronegate
Since I wrote my fist post on the virus affecting the drone fleet at Creech Air Force base, information has…
Innovation Management
I titled the post "Innovation Management", but I intend to focus as much on the activity as on the underlying…
Mixed-Effects Models in R with Quantum Forest
For anyone who wants to estimate linear or nonlinear mixed-effects models (aka random-effects models, hierarchical models or multilevel models) using the…
Marketing Executives Aren’t Ready for the Social Explosion of Data
I had a chance to review the results of an interesting new global study of chief marketing officers (CMOs) by IBM, and…
