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…
At a time in our history when there is more data than ever before, the overwhelming majority of companies ...
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…
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 ..
