“Some is not a number and soon is not a time”
In a true story that I recently read in the book Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard…
Gathering BI/DW requirements
There was a great article this week over on the Requirements Network – Data Warehouse / Business Intelligence Requirements Elicitation.…
Failing to Address Data Quality and Consistency – A Series of Unfortunate Data Warehousing/Business Intelligence Events
If data warehouses could talk, they might say “Don’t shoot me, I am just the messenger!”People sometimes think the data…
The Real Data Value is Business Insight
Understanding your data usage is essential to improving its quality, and therefore, you must perform data analysis on a regular…
Data Quality doesn’t matter (much)!
While touring in New Zealand to talk about my new book, I had the opportunity to do an interview on…
It’s time to industrialize analytics
There's a lot of talk about advanced analytics these days - the use of data mining and predictive analytics is…
Modeling the brain: Hardware’s not the issue
If computing continues its exponential growth, within 15 years the most powerful machines will be able to carry out 1020…
The Tooth Fairy of Data Quality
The 2010 movie Tooth Fairy was a box office bust—and deservedly so for obvious reasons. The studio executives couldn’t handle…
Why Making a Rational Argument to Power Can Fail…
Have you ever found a surprising insight through analysis about your business, prepared a set of slides with a solid argument, presented…
Scrum Screwed Up
This was the inaugural cartoon on Implementing Scrum by Michael Vizdos and Tony Clark, which does a great job of…
