Quicksand, Data Overload and Corporate Concrete
One of Avinash‘s favorite expressions is “data puke’, which goes a long way to describing the vast majority of charts,…
How To Challenge Your Assumptions
Challenging assumptions can unlock the creativity needed for innovative solutions. That was a key theme that emerged at the Leadership Asheville…
Nine Components of a HIPAA Risk Analysis
The Department of Health and Human Services requires organizations to conduct a risk analysis as the first step toward implementing…
New IARPA Program Aims To Discover Tech Trends
The Intelligence Community’s Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) office of “incisive analysis” has been evaluating plans, projects and proposals submitted…
Business, IT Must Meet Half Way to Form Partnership
Given the focus of this blog, I was quite interested in a CFO.com article titled Your CIO, Your Problem, which…
Department of State’s Consular Systems and Technology: A Track Record of Innovation
The Office of Consular Systems and Technology (CST) leads the State Department‘s IT efforts.
The Emerging Role of the Analyst – Posts from the Blogosphere
In response to our call for bloggers to post on the topic of The Emerging Role of the Analyst, we've…
Blasphemy? Quantitative Approaches Don’t Always Work Best
Ray Dalio’s Bridgewater Associates hedge fund, Pure Alpha II, is up 25% in year that hasn’t been kind to competitors.…
Every User an Analyst – Bah, Humbug!
"Oracle Exalytics enables organizations to make decisions faster... through the introduction of interactive visualization capabilities that make every user an…
