analysis

Lessons from LucidEra on BI for the mid-market

August 3, 2009

Here are two tips from LucidEra veterans Ken Rudin and Darren Cunningham about BI in the mid-market: Forget “freemium” — the new term for free service leading to paid service — and be wary of users’ ability to analyze data. Rudin co-founded the company and in June saw it fold for lack of renewed funding [...]

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Just give me the data

July 16, 2009

Recent email to me from a passionate practioner of creative analysis tells how traditional BI is bad for genuine data analysis. As I see it, traditional BI processes are still designed to start with the answers, not the questions: “Oh, we can’t give you access to the raw data. Your tools (old thinking) probably are [...]

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Robert McNamara: good analytics, bad judgment

July 9, 2009

Tom Davenport on former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and how he failed despite good analytics. McNamara was a hedgehog rather than a fox, an engineer rather than an ecologist. The hedgehog knows one big thing, and for McNamara that was rational systems analysis. If he’d been a fox, he’d have brought additional perspectives to [...]

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Veg-O-Matic analysis?

July 9, 2009

Does “slice and dice” connote canned, pre-defined reports? An industry leader I talked to the other day used the term to describe data analysis based on aggregated data. Come to think of it, I don’t recall ever hearing those who like to receive their data raw ever using the term.

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As if there there can be a single version of the truth

July 8, 2009

The popular New York Times columnist and Nobel laureate Paul Krugman often disagrees with his fellow economists. Let’s all raise our eyebrows in shock. Not! My shock is at the idea among some of his readers that there’s a right and wrong answer. Today, for example, Krugman again refers to his opinion that the stimulus [...]

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