Quantum Encryption: Some economic and national security implications
One of the things I like about Alan Paller the individual and the organization he helps lead SANS is they encourage…
Predictive Models are Only as Good as Their Acceptance by Decision-Makers
I have been reminded in the past couple weeks working with customers that in many applications of data mining and…
Dilbert, Data and Decision-making
So the question you need to ask yourselves is this – how much like Dilbert’s company do I want my…
Improving customer interactions one decision at a time
William Band at Forrester (@waband) recently tweeted that his next research project was: When to use CRM apps vs BPM…
5 Reasons Why I Won’t Build That For You (it’s not just because I said so)
Turning down projects (or redirecting ones that are on the wrong track) is the only path toward some semblance of…
Gathering BI/DW requirements
There was a great article this week over on the Requirements Network – Data Warehouse / Business Intelligence Requirements Elicitation.…
Failing to Address Data Quality and Consistency – A Series of Unfortunate Data Warehousing/Business Intelligence Events
If data warehouses could talk, they might say “Don’t shoot me, I am just the messenger!”People sometimes think the data…
Why trust Facebook with our history?
Scott Rosenberg discusses the digital records we leave of our day-to-day existence, and wonders why anyone would entrust them to…
What Will be the Next New Management Breakthrough?
Since the 1890s there have arguably been only a few major management breakthroughs with several minor ones. What will be…
The Real Data Value is Business Insight
Understanding your data usage is essential to improving its quality, and therefore, you must perform data analysis on a regular…
