BI without the I
Tim Van Gelder of Austhink has reposted his classic article on the shortcomings of an IT based model of BI. He identifies a vital, irreplaceably human element missing from the model. The cartoon is...
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Competitive advantage
This year will see the cinema release of Moneyball, the story of the Oakland A’s baseball team’s successful use of analytics under general manager Billy Beane, based on Michael Lewis’ 2003 book of the...
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CORTEX MBAnalytics – Week 1, Day 1
Continuing the recent theme of online self-education, Steve Bennett of Oz Analytics and CORTEX is generously developing and sharing an ‘MBAnalytics’ program, consisting of a daily diet of between 5 and...
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*Rethinking Knowledge Work*
Week 1, Day 5 of the CORTEX MBAnalytics program includes Tom Davenport’s ‘Rethinking Knowledge Work: A Strategic Approach’ from the McKinsey Quarterly of January 2011. In the essay, Davenport argues...
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Big data as an advanced analytics driver
So far from making us more profligate with information, perhaps the Goddess of ‘big data’ will spur us to be smarter in data selection, and ensure more intelligence is embedded within our data...
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*Why Software Is Eating The World*
Six decades into the computer revolution, four decades since the invention of the microprocessor, and two decades into the rise of the modern Internet, all of the technology required to transform...
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Analytics is… a problem OR: Are You Ready for Big Data?
The buzzword of the year seems to be “Big Data”. There is a massive wave of promoters of the term, and there are inevitable detractors. There is also the issue of exactly how to define it. What...
View ArticleNZIIP Presentation –“Putting the Analyst First : The Human Infrastructure of...
I have just returned from a terrific and all too brief visit to Wellington, New Zealand, where I presented the Analyst First (“A1″) vision to NZ’s intelligence community’s professional body- the New...
View ArticleThe Holy Trinity – Getting Analytics Sponsorship Right
All analytics initiatives need a sponsor. This may be the business owner, or some executive with a budget, mandate and agenda to make analytics happen. Such sponsors are actually not too hard to find,...
View ArticleAppropriate Understanding – What Every Analytics Sponsor Should Know, and...
The previous article introduced the idea of the “Holy Trinity” : the three key characteristics of analytics sponsors. These go beyond having budget and mandate to perform analytics : while those two...
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