A CTO Analysis of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Speech on Internet Freedom
On 21 January 2010 Secretary of State Clinton delivered a speech on the topic of Internet Freedom. This is a…
Counting Observations
Data is fodder for the data mining process. One fundamental aspect of the data we analyze is its size, which…
How to disrupt Wall Street
Sarah Lacy has a very interesting post on TechCrunch where she conjectures that the internet is finally starting to disrupt…
How Google’s new “answer” machine could rock Web business
Google's new search technology, Google Squared, attempts to answer factual questions right in the query results, so that searchers don't…
Lessons Learned from Cubetree; an Enterprise Social Software Company
I had the opportunity to speak with the CEO of Cubetree last night and one of the things we talked…
Defining The Analytic Process
I was asked the other day to explain what I meant by the terms Analytics and 'Analytic Process'. My first…
Other characteristics of decision-centric organizations
Decision-centric organizations also focus on automating, not just supporting, decisions. They use this focus to develop simpler, standard processes and…
ETL, Data Quality and MDM for Mid-sized Business
Is data quality a luxury that only large companies should be able to afford? Of course the answer is no.…
Can Social Media become a Universal Translator?
I have always been a huge fan of science fiction, mostly television and movies, but also a few select books…
Operational decision making as a corporate asset
I often tell companies and other organizations that they should treat decisions and decision making as assets. In Smart (Enough)…