How Many Analysts Does It Take To Screw In A Lightbulb?
An old joke but a question I face each time I am asked gather a team to create a sustainable…
Stephen few on the problem with BI
In a recent post, Big BI is Stuck: Illustrated by SAP BusinessObjects Explorer, Stephen Few took issue with the claims…
Rock Paper Scissors – Market Decision Making
"The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are…
Is Unstructured Collaboration the Key to Business Agility?
According to a report by Microsoft it is (geared towards the manufacturing industry). Towards the end of last year…
BI and unstructured data continued…
Last week I wrote a piece for Dashboard Insight about the convergence of BI and unstructured data. Over the years…
Lost Weekend: Troubleshooting a MySQL Installation
Spurred on by Blogger's decision to stop supporting FTP for publishing blogs, I have finally started the long process to…
Can We Build a Distributed Trust Network?
Mathew Ingram posted an interview with Craig Newmark (the Craig of craigslist fame) in which the latter argued that what the web needs is…
A fresh take on SAP’s strategy under the new Co-CEO’s
I attended a roundtable Monday with SAP's new co-CEO's, Bill McDermott and Jim Hagemann Snabe to get an update on…
The AlloSphere
It's been blogged about before but I can't resist repeating it. A TED talk from a year ago that is…
Basking in a dashboard’s warm glow
When some people look at dashboards, they want to see patterns but not reasons. “They don’t want to read the…