Healthcare Information Systems Need ADW Therapy!
Healthcare information systems everywhere are on the operating table. Some are in intensive care. I’m not a doctor and I…
10 Market Research Challenges
Data Privacy on the Web? As part of the recent BAQMaR Conference in Ghent Belgium, 10 upcoming challenges to the…
Sign this contract here: its all free…Or is it?
In previous years, Federal Government agencies have been given riding instructions to get the cheapest, "all you can eat" licensing…
Building Competitive Advantage through New Data
One subject that has not received a lot of coverage in the analytics blogging circle is the current administration’s data.gov…
BI 2010 – Some thoughts on data quality and governance
Several sessions this afternoon on data quality and governance. Rather than blogging these separately, here are some thoughts: Great illustration…
Why I Disabled Google Buzz
I smiled when I first read the Google Buzz announcement on February 9. I liked what I saw about a…
BI 2010 – Making BI more strategic
I have just opened ITWeb’s BI 2010 in Johannesburg talking about decisions and importance of decision making in making BI…
Performance Management via Word of Mouse
The way that organizations learn today is much different than twenty years ago. Back then, for example, managers learned by…
Referential Treatment – The Open Source Reference Data Trend
Reference data can be used in a huge number of data quality and data enrichment processes. The simplest example is…
Microsoft’s anti-Google weapon: Open-source Bing
Google continues to punish Microsoft in search, taking some 70% of the market. Worse, Google is offering lots of free…
