Analyzing Community Data – Business Insights at Your Fingertips
Insights into consumer behavior and preferences can be surfaced not only from social media conversations but may also be found…
Master Data Management: How to Avoid that ‘Pie in Your Face’ Moment
Author: Linda RosencranceSpotfire Blogging TeamIf there’s any good news that’s come out of the phone hacking scandal involving Rupert Murdoch’s…
Want Magic? Spill the Secrets of Your Black Box
With the rise of cloud computing, it’s easy to get the impression customers don’t care how a particular process or…
Comments on the Nine Laws of Data Mining
After reading the article from Tom Khabaza, I want to discuss some aspects of it with you. The article is…
Commenting in social media means you want a response, right? Wrong!
If you talk to people about social media engagement, you’ll hear a common thread – people want to be responded…
Managing By the Numbers: Penny Wise, Pound Foolish?
Every good business manager loves metrics. After all, the old adage, “You can't manage what you don't measure” still holds…
“Pricing to Win” Makes Losers Out of Winners
Donald Tuck, Polish Prime Minister, is taking heat for the fiasco of awarding an important highway contract to a low-cost…
Driving Adoption of Social Collaboration Tools
I was having a discussion yesterday with a vendor client on adoption of its activity stream product and wanted to…
Publicly Traded Companies + Empire Avenue = Very. Bad. Idea.
You may or may not have heard about Empire Avenue, a social game modeled on the stock market. Basically, you…
Who will manage Big Data?
An interesting McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) analysis looks at the vast amount of enterprise information these days–and the challenges that…

