The Go/No-Go Decision Pattern
Should you accept a new project a potential customer is offering you? Should you hire an assistant? Should you buy…
A Pattern Language for Decision-Making
Pattern languages have become all the rage. Why? Because they help codify best practices and provide a vocabulary to talk…
What the business needs from business rules (a thought on mega trends)
Last week Carole-Ann posted on 2 MegaTrends at Business Rules Forum 2010. I normally agree with a lot of what…
Automating Analytics
Information Management has recently published an interesting article about automating analytics. Written by Bill Franks and Scott VanValkenburgh, it explains…
How Data Analytics and BI Professionals Used Twitter In October
Last month, we started a monthly feature called How Data Analytics and BI Professionals Use Twitter.
Podcast: Data Governance is Mission Possible
The recent Information Management article Data – Who Cares! by Martin ABC Hansen of Platon has the provocative subtitle: “If…
Seven Questions That Make Analytics Smarter
In a recent discussion at Boston’s Knowledge Management Forum, KM Forum President Larry Chait and Industry Consultant Jack Vinson shared a…
Quality and Governance are Beyond the Data
Last week’s episode of DM Radio on Information Management, co-hosted as always by Eric Kavanagh and Jim Ericson, was a…
Top 10 analytic mistakes
One of my favorite presenters, John Elder, presented his top 10 analytic mistakes at Teradata Partners.