September 2010

Beginner’s mind in IT

September 24, 2010

A young IT worker follows his common sense, for which his boss scolded him.

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Tableau rising

September 17, 2010

As Stephen Few delivered his keynote address at the recent Tableau customer conference in Seattle, he suddenly broke his rhythm to look at someone in the audience. “Is that Howard Dresner?” he wondered, surprised. It was. Howard is the man who as a Gartner analyst in 1989 revived the term “business intelligence,” and he’s one [...]

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The basic skill they don’t teach in BI boot camp

September 8, 2010

One of the saddest phenomena in BI projects is also a classic: IT and Business stop talking, or else they never talked at all. Projects launch but then stall when the light from shiny things dims. It’s as good an example of bad politics as I’ve heard of. Jill Dychè, a principle at Baseline Consulting, [...]

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