Tips for Leaders – Driving Change with Stories and Numbers
One of the biggest challenges that leaders face when driving change is getting everyone on board with the new direction.…
Data Visualization’s Final Frontier
Back story Back story35 years ago a mathematics theorist-teacher named Al Inselberg was thinking, "enough of placing data variables on…
Analysts’ & Vendors’ Top 5 Pet Peeves About Each Other
Summary: Vendors: 'Analysts think they know everything.' Analysts: 'Please, no long history lessons!'Talk about watching scorpions fight it out in…
Public CIOs Can Help Attract Tech Incubators
June 15, 2012 By Steve Towns June 15, 2012 By Steve TownsTyler Cowen, writing in a recent issue of The American Interest, paints an…
The Softer Side of Risk Management Means Fewer Analytics
For the past 25 years, with their elegant analytical models, quantitative analysts and transplanted physicists have ruled the roost in…
How To Create Business Value with Analytics
In the coming years big data is expected to grow exponentially.Today big data is measured in gigabytes and sometimes petabytes.…
Because It’s the Weekend: The Chances of Finding Mr./Mrs. Right
The video below by Emanuele Colombo is adorable. But, this being a statistics blog, I have to take a small…
Globoforce Engages Employees with Social Recognition
The use of social collaboration and employee recognition software to support human capital management is increasing as the need to…
“Lean is not a destination, it’s a journey.”
Lessons in Quality, Reliability, and Risk Originally published on Hub Designs Magazine May 2012 "Lean" and "Agile" concepts have infiltrated aspects of…
Top 3 Reasons You Need a Chief Data Officer
In order for any business to realize the value of its data, the data should be activity managed across the…

