How to Get Your Lean Six Sigma Project to Go Viral
With the free consultation services I provided, I have had lots of opportunities to discuss various solutions to challenges people…
Focus: Five Resolutions for Digital Marketers
In 2011, I came up with 17 resolutions, and while these resolutions were very popular, they were far too many…
Using Data Analysis to Avoid 4 Common Causes of Business Failure
Although figures vary, it’s estimated that between half and 75% of businesses are destined to fail within the first three…
OLTP meets OLAP, BI Conferences, Sybase Who? And Other News
The Big NewsThe big news over the last week has been, of course, the release of SAP Business Suite Powered…
Who’s in Charge of Your Data?
It's Time to Have the Conversation. It's Time to Have the Conversation.In a recent article, my colleague Marjie Cota wrote…
The Secrets to Big Data and Information Optimization Revealed in 2013 Research Agenda
Managing the access, storage and use of data effectively can provide businesses a competitive advantage. Last year I outlined what…
Think Outside the Box, But Design Within the Framework
As a UX designer I used to get frustrated when I had the feeling my designs didn’t really get built…
4 New Year’s BI Data Resolutions You Can’t Fail to Keep
Your New Year’s diet resolution doesn’t look so good when you still have three-quarters of a cheesecake and half a…
Like Big Data, Operational Intelligence is Evolving to Deliver Right Time Value
Ventana Research has been researching and advocating operational intelligence for the past 10 years, but not always with that name. Ventana Research…
Big Change: Breaking Things into Smaller Pieces
One of the byproducts of the Internet is a phenomenon that is impacting all sorts of things, the trend of…

