Dateline: April 3, 2015 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. A recent Fast Company article about user interface of an app using texting instead of other modes of notification caught my attention. In How Texting with Chatbots Creates a Better UX Than Apps, author (and clearly digital native) Chris Gayomali shared his experience with two … [Read more...]
Descriptive, Predictive and Prescriptive
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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
February 6, 2015 by Leave a Comment
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...]
Davenport’s Law of Common Information
January 23, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: January 23, 2015 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Big data and analytics are all the rage at the moment. At the center of many discussions is my friend and colleague, Dr. Tom Davenport. Recently Tom published a column in the CIO Journal, the Wall Street Journal's area for all things IT, on the Promise and Perils of Common … [Read more...]
Big Data as a Service
December 19, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: December 19, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. This week’s idea suggests a framework for Big-Data-As-A-Service (BDaaS). In the age of SaaS, PaaS, and many other as-a-service offerings, BDaaS may be the next big thing. It's the topic of a recent article by Varun Sharma, an Enterprise Architect and "as-a-service" … [Read more...]
Working with Imperfect Data
December 12, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: December 12, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. This week’s idea is about mitigating the uncertainty that come from analyzing a data set. The thought comes from a recent Sloan Management Review article, Analytical Value from Data That Cries Wolf, written by Professor Sam Ransbotham from the Carroll School of Management … [Read more...]
Chatter Data: What Are We Thinking About?
December 5, 2014 by Leave a Comment
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...]
Creating and Managing Analytics Capability
November 21, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: November 21, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. This week’s idea comes from a thoughtful post at Harvard Business Review about bottlenecks to progress. Brian McCarthy, Managing Director, Information & Analytics Strategy, for Accenture Analytics recently published a blog titled Beware the Analytics Bottleneck. He … [Read more...]
Top Analytics Challenges for CxOs
October 17, 2014 by Leave a Comment
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...]
