What to Do When You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know…
So once again there was a great coincidence from my travels. Three times in the past week I was told…
How Google Uses R to Make Online Advertising More Effective
At JSM 2011 today, three Google employees (amongst the more than 20 Google delegates there) gave a little insight into…
Navigating the Private Cloud
Mike Flaherty, Systems Engineer of Online Tech, discusses the different types of cloud hosting as well as advantages and disadvantages…
Forget Derivatives – Hedge Risks with Innovation and Integrated Data
To protect against wild currency swings or volatile commodity costs, one surefire strategy employed by senior managers is hedging risk…
First Look – IBM In-Database Analytics
IBM SPSS has been supporting in-database analytic modeling for a while now. Their objective is to make it possible for…
Putting SharePoint Genie Back into the Bottle
I'm the mother of a 10-year-old, so I know what it's like to repeat something over and over (and over)…
Data Liberation: The Case For and Against
I’ve been doing a great deal of research on Facebook, one of the main topics of my fourth book. Mark Zuckerberg’s…
Yet another ‘Wisdom of Crowds’ success
I was at the Federal Building downtown San Diego for a consulting job, and met some representatives for a life…
How to Innovate in a Bureaucratic Culture
A few months ago I wrote a post on getting everyone involved in innovation initiatives, assuming that was something many, if…
Shining Some Light on Collaborative BI
Linda RosencranceSpotfire Blogging Team Linda RosencranceSpotfire Blogging TeamSharing and exchanging information among all company decision makers is becoming part of…