Martha Stewart and Data-Centricity
One of the LinkedIn Groups I participate in has spent the past two months discussing the following question: “Respect for data…
In Defense of Data Mining Ethics
Jim Stodgell has a though-provoking post at O'Reilly Radar today on the ethics of data mining and personalization. He frames…
Predictive Analytics Spotlight from IBM
Deepak Advani kicked off day 2. SPSS was acquired by IBM in 2009 and, like all acquisitions, has to report…
SAP and The Hoover Dam
First, I did not go to SAPPhire Now 2011. Had to get that out of the way quickly (and to…
Getting Started with an Integration Competency Center (ICC)
In the last several posts we discussed how critical data governance programs are to the success of EDW, MDM, CDI…
Will Supply Chain BI Work For Your Company?
If you want to effectively manage your supply chain, you have to invest in business intelligence (BI) software. That’s the…
Can we make the Information Revolution better for society?
It is easy to assume that access to massive amounts of information is good for society. Perhaps we should also…
“Data Retention? Yes, please!”
There are good reasons for taking a very close look at anything that threatens basic civil liberties, which is why…
Data Privacy: the Creepy vs. the Terrifying
At the e-G8 summit yesterday, I got into a little spat over privacy. My point, in a panel discussion, was…
