Posted in culture, data management on Oct 9th, 2008
Restless minds will want to know what Asian manufacture of furniture, clothes, electronics and other goods has to do with business intelligence.
A globe-trotting industrial engineer who’d rather not be named has been telling me about different perceptions of quality among nationalities. He works on contract to American companies to ensure that product quality lives up [...]
Posted in culture on May 9th, 2008
At 8 o’clock Monday morning, a few hundred attendees at TDWI conference in Chicago will hear the organization’s former education director Dave Wells give his keynote, “People First: Creating a Business Intelligence Culture.” He’ll say something startling: there’s much more to BI than data.
Posted in culture on Mar 27th, 2008
The Sierra Club, once a leader in bottom-up organization, is about to flip over and assume a top-down orientation–in fact, one much like the big corporations it usually opposes.
Posted in culture on Mar 10th, 2008
The story from Dave Wells, former TDWI education director, is that Seattle University’s big cheeses—all Jesuits—met to talk about the university’s new BI project. Dave said the provost had been listening throughout, and at the end endorsed the project. “I appreciate that we all pray,” said the provost. “But at times we might need help [...]
Posted in culture, indicators on Jan 31st, 2008
A new source in the education-testing business tells me about a “huge cultural collision” between the “sensate, feeling types and the new racetrack bettor types.”
Posted in culture on Jan 28th, 2008
“IT Guy” hits the spot with his response to Ann All’s post “Translate IT into English for Big Business Benefits.”
Posted in culture on Oct 31st, 2007
This afternoon the geeks and the grad students who drove the IEEE InfoVIS (information visualization) conference with their clever but mostly useless inventions swarmed into the hotel lobby for some reason that only their well-wired brains understand. They are a different crowd from the one I’ve seen lately.
This year I’ve only been to business [...]