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Data Driven…or Data Informed?
I just finished reading Eric T. Peterson’s post titled The Myth of the “Data-Driven” Business. I don’t talk or write much about ‘data’…mostly because I’ve always taken it for granted as something that...
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Your attention please by Jason F on 37signals Quote: The greatest things you make and do are the ones that get your full attention. It’s helpful to take an inventory of what you’re doing and then ask...
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Happy New Year! You Don’t Live in the World You Were Born Into by Mark Cuban on blog maverick Quote: “If you are looking where everyone else is for the next big thing, you are looking in the wrong...
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Hubris and the Data Scientist by Paul Miller on The Cloud of Data Quote: Moving forward, we need both domain skills and data skills. Sometimes those skills may be present within a single individual,...
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Big Data, Small Business
This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. Big Data is a Big story these days and has been for some time. Big Data is a big business too….and will most likely continue to grow. Big Data is...
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A quick analysis of the #CIO Twitter Stream – Twitter Quality vs Quantity?
As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I’ve been capturing and analyzing the #CIO twitter stream. I’m interested in the CIO topic, have the capabilities to do the work and there are some really interesting...
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Data Disconnect and Shadow IT
This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. Yes Shadow IT again. But…rather than rehash the things I’ve talked about before, I wanted to take some time to walk through a few issues that...
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“We want to test bold, new ideas that always work.” – Chief Marketing Technologist Quote: Failure is an inherent part of real experimentation. “We have an idea. Let’s try it. Works? Great. Doesn’t...
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Managing Expectations is an Art — Gene De Libero – Digital Marketing Strategist and Technologist Quote: I learned early in my career that setting and managing expectations [especially my own] was a...
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Can evil data scientists fool us all with the world’s best spam? — Tech News and Analysis Quote: Just when you thought spam was under control, a new breed of spammers is taking up new methods to...
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Context and Data
A few weeks ago I wrote about Big Data and Small Business. From that post, I wrote: As its defined, big data might be too big for small business, but the concepts behind big data – identifying,...
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“Steering your car via the gas tank”, when cost trumps strategy Quote: …the budget is not a strategy, it is not a means of leadership, and it is simply an allocation of resources that should support...
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Technology is king, so why are so many IT departments playing backseat roles? — Tech News and Analysis Quote: As employees feel increasingly entitled to take tech into their own hands via BYOD, the...
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BYOD – reducing costs and complexity for IT
I’ve written about the topic “Bring your own Device” (BYOD) in the past but I never really touched on the issue of what BYOD does for IT complexity. Does having a BYOD policy that allows your employees...
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The Three Elements of Successful Data Visualizations – Jim Stikeleather – Harvard Business Review Quote: Storytelling helps the viewer gain insight from the data. Information visualization is a...
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A Dangerous Bias: action over thinking – UCSC Extension in Silicon Valley Quote: So, perhaps if our agile and iterative processes do not seem to be leading us on a path to success, maybe we just dove...
View ArticleContext – the driver to actionable use of Big Data
In a previous article titled Context and Data, I wrote about the need to understand the ‘context’ surrounding data. Without context, data is data. You really can’t do much useful with data. Sure, you...
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The Smarter Data Manifesto - Quote: You need to look beyond the ways data used to be collected to how technology can help you use your data far more effectively, because you have important goals. You...
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Big Data, Small Data – or YOUR Data?
I just finished reading Big Data and Marketing: A Confused Relationship? over on Marketing Pilgrim. There’s some good stuff in the post – but what really caught my attention was a paragraph toward the...
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How Innovations Spread Quote: We believe that we can just tell people the facts and ideas will spread. That’s not really how it works. Neil deGrasse Tyson explains that persuading others is about more...
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