April 2010

Librarian looks up a real “solution”

April 21, 2010

A friend of mine runs the library at a small university near me, and she hears pitches all the time for neat technology. I suppose she doesn’t hear much about BI, just library stuff, but let’s not get hung up on the details. To keep her priorities straight, she keeps a “ruthless focus” on the [...]

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A “Bart” just wants protection from the “Marges” and “Homers”

April 12, 2010

One of the pleas in Mark Madsen’s fascinating keynote at the TDWI conference in Las Vegas was to let the “Barts” work. The Barts are, of course, the Bart Simpsons among us, the sometimes nerdy rebels who actually come up with interesting analyses and other useful things. When the lights went up, a “Bart” was [...]

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Failure to communicate with the Boomers

April 2, 2010

Why do creative data analysts meet resistance? I’ve written about them before: many are young, they’re smart, and their credentials might still be slim. But they’re still a value to their employers, no matter who knows it yet. At least some of it’s about Boomers vs. the up-and-comers. One corporate communications consultant I talked to, [...]

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