Overcoming Tradition with Analytics – Baseball’s Mindshift
Tradition is always a challenge to overcome. It reminds me of the definition of stupidity as “repeating the same mistakes…
Smart Grid Business Analytics: Adding Value to the Smart Grid
Most of the electric utilities companies are investing in deploying smart meters to replace their aging infrastructure. Recently, I finished…
Online Privacy Changes Imminent from Washington
Online Privacy and personal data are issues that have affected online businesses for years. Personal information is now easily accessible…
Moving “Traditional” Online
I was reading the reports of Rupert Murdock's upcoming online "newspaper" product and it started a mental thread that I…
General Purpose Sensemaking Systems and Information Colocation
General purpose sensemaking systems will colocate diverse data in the same data space. Such an approach enables massively scalable, real-time,…
Do You Know Your Data?
Midway through Michael Lewis’ excellent book The Big Short, the author makes an astonishing assertion: many financial institutions didn’t understand…
How far along are we on the path to analytics?
For readers of this blog, it's certainly no secret: Data-crunching analytics is a raging trend in business. Companies are racing…
Reclaim email as a business tool
Any serious business discussion about information must include email. Like it, or loathe it, email is a major part of…
BI contribution to the annual plan
Plans express our expectations about the future. Companies operating on a calendar basis will be in the final stages of…
Talk Analytics with Executives: 4 Things You Must Understand
Data analysis isn’t something you do for your own entertainment. Businesses pay for analytics to support decision-making, to provide them…
