10 Don’ts for Delivering Mobile Business Intelligence
With all the major vendors and analyst firms espousing the growing importance of Mobile Business Intelligence (BI) and touting its…
Top 3 Ways FP&A Analytics Can Get Your Financial House in Order
As April 17 approaches (this year’s As April 17 approaches (this year’s deadline), many Americans are scrambling to locate receipts…
Improvement Project for Services; Remember You’re Never Really Done
I am no longer surprised by the number of people who say, “I’m working on my Green Belt/Black Belt certification, but…
Decision Management and the 4Ds
A recent new twitter follower had an interesting post on his blog back in 2010 - The 4Ds “Detect, Derive, Decide…
Musings on Watson: Why Healthcare?
(An earlier version of this article was published at http://www.constellationrg.com/blog/2011/12/musings-watson-why-healthcare) I was able to attend the IBM Connect Summit in Stamford,…
Target variables matter but so do decisions.
Dean Abbot wrote a great post recently “Why Defining the Target Variable in Predictive Analytics is Critical” in which he…
A Question of Scope
Don’t bite off more than you can chew because nobody looks attractive spitting it back out.- Carroll BryantI apologize for…
“Something is not Right!” – Don’t Ignore Your Gut When Analyzing Information
Ludwig Bemelmans' classic picture book Madeline has been enjoyed by generations of children - my own daughters included. The story…
The Fallacy of the Data Scientist Shortage
There is no question that the USA (in fact, most of the world) would be well-served with more quantitatively capable…
Big Data = Moneyball for Your Company
In every business, people have to analyze information in real time to arrive at the right decisions.The problem is that…

