Ode to Initiate Systems
In which Jill pays homage to a class act. The rumors of IBM’s acquisition of MDM vendor Initiate Systems were…
Stamen Design: Illustrating the physics of information
Ben Cerveny of Stamen Designs was speaking before me at the Webtrends Engage conference yesterday. Stamen, an eight-person shop in…
Mapping the Massachusetts election upset with R, ctd
Last week we looked at an analysis done in R by the good folks at Offensive Politics, looking at the…
Is your legacy modernization program just “forward to the 70s”?
Phil Murphey, over at Forrester, had a post on Apps Modernization – What are Your Top Priorities in 2010/11? that…
Freescalin’ at the Gartner BI Summit
This week finds me at the Gartner BI Summit in London on Monday and Tuesday; in Helsinki on Wednesday and…
Reward of Being the Top Market Researcher on Twitter
My views on using Twitter for marketing and market research I wasn’t going to blog about this, but I’ve started…
Converting Prospects into Repeat Buyers in Five Steps
Here are five best practices that work for marketers to convert their prospects into buyers, and then repeat buyers -…
Social Networking, as seen by The Economist
The current issue of The Economist (January 30 -February 5 2010) features a 15-page special report on social networking. Typically…
Analytic Auteurs
In my last blog I was looking for a label that I could use to describe what I do analytically.…
The First Flinch…Amazon gives in just a little bit
I’ve raced road bikes on and off for more than 10-years. I am one of the tactically dumbest riders…