How to Improve Predictive Accuracy? (Part 1)
“Prediction is difficult, especially about the future.” - Yogi Berra (a baseball catcher) One model or multiple models? Several articles…
A Poorly Managed Company’s Tour Guide: Performance Mangement and the ‘Mesdup’ Corporation
Publicly traded companies issue annual reports that increasingly look like magazines. Almost all organizations publish a brochure with glossy…
Winning the first game in a baseball series: a harbinger, or not?
For those not familiar with the major-league baseball in the US (and despite living here for more than 10 years,…
The Big Bad Boucher Bill, and Its Possible Exceptions
A discussion draft of a controversial bill to regulate behavioral targeting has been released by US Rep. Rick Boucher (D-VA).…
SAS and Socialytics
SAS, a leader in business analytics, recently launched a new offering targeted around gaining business insight into the social web.…
5 Lessons Social CRM can Learn from CRM
I have been implementing CRM Solutions for a decade, having successfully managed many large CRM projects for Fortune 500 companies in the…
Innovation and Analytics
Innovation and analytics often are seen as opposing concepts. Many argue that innovation –which is often glorified as a moment…
Taking advantage of mobile devices with decision management
Lots of articles talk about the need to provide BI and analysis on mobile devices. And lots of enterprise applications…
It’s Time for Social Service Level Agreements
My idea of SSLAs (social service level agreements) would take the concept of the SLA and just apply it to…
How IT Services Companies can prepare for Social CRM opportunity
In one of my earlier post, I highlighted the Social CRM opportunity for IT Services Companies. In this post, I want…
