Analytics is Not a Dirty Word
What seems like a lifetime ago, I was intelligence officer in the Air Force. Beyond creating Snoopy calendars on the mainframe…
ETL tools: Don’t Forget About the Little Dogs
I’m not only concerned about hand-coding versus ETL tools; I’m also concerned that potential buyers of ETL tools and the…
Don’t be a snob about managing change
One of the most dangerous things you can do is think you’re different than everyone else. I have found that…
MDM: Build or Buy?
On the publication of my new Informatica white paper, titled “Master Data Management: Building a Foundation for Success,” I’ve been…
IBM: Numerati paradise
It's been about three weeks that I've been "covering" IBM for BusinessWeek. I haven't done any articles yet, but I…
Make Better Decisions
Copyright © 2009 James Taylor. Visit the original article at Make Better Decisions.Tom Davenport published a new article recently in…
You know it when they dance
Here’s that eternal question again: how do you know when whatever you’re working on is good enough? Today, two perspectives.…
Book Review: Trust Agents
As my friend Jill Dyche writes in the foreword of my next book, social media is a “piping hot” topic…
Cloudsourcing, new options in the cloud
As we go into the week of Salesforce.com's Dreamforce conference I was thinking back to last year. I remember walking…
Government IT Savings Success – Time to Open the Piggy Bank…Carefully
Australia's Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner recently heralded the Gershon Review and resultant reforms by Federal Government as a success. A…