I have spent time this week working on new piece for Cutter on emerging technologies such as cloud computing and…
Strong business sponsorship is generally cited as a major success factor for IT projects. From one perspective this is…
A few highlights from the blogosphere this week: The Relational Database This is an interesting–if long–post on the future of…
I’ve always been a sports junkie and, in particular, a fan of SportsCenter. Hey, we all need our escapes from…
I am often involved with projects that are running behind schedule and over budget. Such is life of an IT…
A “blog-bout” is a good-natured debate between two bloggers. This blog-bout is between Jim Harris and Phil Simon, where they…
On my recent trip to Las Vegas, I was able to play a few amazing courses, including the TPC at…
This is my second article in response to pieces by Thomas Wailgum at CIO.com (you can read the first one…
I should acknowledge that I am indebted to a conversation that I had with John Collins on his blog, Views…
tactics /táktiks/ n.pl. 2 a the plans and means adopted in carrying out a scheme or achieving some end. (O.E.D.) meander…
The above diagram was compiled by Florence Nightingale, who was – according to The Font – “a celebrated English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of…
Money Out the Window It’s scary to think about the dollars involved, but with over 70% of Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing projects failing it is surprising…
At a time in our history when there is more data than ever before, the overwhelming majority of companies ...
I always make the point that data is everywhere – and that a lot of it is free.
The internet and ecommerce world offers endless possibilities to use customer analytics and big data ..
