Self tracking is business intelligence
Back when secretaries were common, you could have had yours track your day in 15-minute increments. In his book The Effective Executive, Peter Drucker suggested this as a way to find out what you really did all day. The picture usually wasn’t so pretty. Tracking your time then and now is personal, it’s messy, and [...]
As seen on TV!
Today, the video crew had me wired with a microphone, and the bright light flooded our faces. The glamorous, brainy woman who sat next to me and I stared silently into each other’s eyes for a long few seconds while the camera rolled, exactly as we’d been told to do. This must be what actors [...]
Predicting BI trends and saying you’re sorry
We forget most failed predictions quickly. If you make a bad one, you just say “let’s move on,” and you’re as good as moved on. But sometimes you meet the kind of guy I say hello to near my office—the kind professional forecasters hope they never meet.
