Archive for March, 2009
Are you a data hostage?
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A few years ago I was starting a small BI team in a mid-sized organization. They hadn’t invested in BI up to that point and had experienced a lot of pain attempting to provide basic reporting capabilities to their clients. One day, a product manager called me and said “I need a report for my [...]
A review of “Outliers” by Malcolm Gladwell
Written by Thomas Niccum If you’re interested in data and data analysis you have probably read Malcom Gladwell’s previous works Blink and The Tipping Point. Both were rich in interesting data and approaches to analyze that data for meaning. Gladwell recently published a third volume, Outliers, which has even more of his trademark analysis of [...]
Data Governance for free?!
I had a conversation earlier this week with a consulting firm in the Seattle area. She expressed some concern to me that many of her clients were foregoing a data governance program because of the cost. “Why do they think that is costs too much? Don’t they understand that it will cost so much more [...]
TDWI Executive Summit
The TDWI Executive Summit was held last week in Vegas. While the theme was Agile Development & Alignment there was an under-current of the organizational impact on BI Programs. It seemed that for the first time BI Practitioners (many of them reformed IT Practitioners) have acknowledged the impact that the organizations ecosystem has on the [...]