The 5 Minds of Analytics Team Members

Dateline: August 12, 2016 The race is on in corporations everywhere to make sense of all the information flooding in. Knowing this, businesses that are investing in business intelligence, Big Data, analytics, and data science are hoping to gain a competitive edge. But technology is only one part of the challenge. You also need the right people and processes in place. Welcome to our Friday WRAP – … [Read more...]

Data Visualization for Story-Telling

Dateline: August 5, 2016 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Collecting data is one thing, but being able to make sense of what it is telling us and communicating those messages are quite another.  This month we are spending time looking at BI, analytics and data management topics.  Today our topic is about data visualization. Recently … [Read more...]

Secrets to Building a Data-Driven Culture

Dateline: July 29, 2016 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. The competitive landscape is shifting rapidly in virtually every industry, fueled by the intelligent application of technology and data. While nearly all companies have more data than they know what to do with, a powerful minority is discovering new ways of leveraging it. Companies … [Read more...]

The Tortoise and The Hare: Building a Culture of Analytics

Dateline: April 22, 2016 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Building a culture of analytics combines change management with technical competence.  Running the organization by numbers and data is not always understood or accepted.  Recently, one of my International Institute of Analytics colleagues, Bill Franks, wrote a thought provoking … [Read more...]

Butterfly Effect Implications of IoT

Dateline: March 4, 2016 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend.  The Internet of Things (IoT) discussions are heating up and senior IT leaders are asking deeper, more thought provoking questions.  Recently, I ran across an interesting discussion about the impact of IoT on predictive analytics.  James Kobielus, IBM's Data Evangelist, suggested … [Read more...]

Transforming into a Data-Driven Organization

Dateline: April 10, 2015 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Data-driven transformation means morphing your organization into an enterprise with a culture and decision-making structure based on KPIs and analytics.  Today, it's the goal of many organizations to become data-driven.  CIO magazine recently wrote about the Seven Principles of … [Read more...]

Descriptive, Predictive and Prescriptive

Dateline: March 6, 2015 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Analytics is on the minds of every senior leader today.  Companies have data warehouses full of data just waiting to be mined for gems of actionable insights.  No one will argue against the goal of making better business decisions with data and analytics, but how to do that is a … [Read more...]

Another Source for Value From Your Data

Dateline: February 6, 2015 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. In a recent blog post at the International Institute of Analytics, Chief Analytics Officer of Teradata, Bill Franks, discussed a thought-provoking idea about finding value in mining data for external use. His blog, Ignore your Business, Rake in The Profits, suggests that … [Read more...]

Chatter Data: What Are We Thinking About?

Dateline: December 5, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. This week’s idea comes from an interview with Blake Chandlee, vice president of global partnerships at Facebook, published by Sloan Management Review.  Chandler described a category of data that is providing new insights into what people are thinking about when they are just … [Read more...]

Top Analytics Challenges for CxOs

Dateline: October 17, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. This week’s idea come a recent public Twitter Chat about How Analytics is Transforming the Roles of the C-Suite Execs,  between  Tom Davenport (@Tdav), President’s Distinguished Professor of IT and Management at Babson College, research fellow at the MIT Center for Digital … [Read more...]