March 11, 2008
Why did New York governor Eliot Spitzer ever pay more than $100 for a call girl? That’s what scientists at a state-funded research lab freaked out about when the news broke yesterday. To them the scandal was that the rest of the money could have gone to science.
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March 10, 2008
The business people didn’t show up to the meeting. They’d been invited to come and talk with IT about the new BI project and in the same stroke help launch it.
This is one of the first stories I ever heard about BI. Though daddy of data modelers Steve Hoberman didn’t say what happened next, I can imagine: all the usual suspects in business were soon rounded up for a later attempt.
The usual suspects are almost always the ones with positional power, the ones with staffs and budgets. But an article in the current strategy+business magazine says that sometimes—such as when creating a politically risky new system—what matters most is trust. Yes, an old story, but for once there’s a prescription.
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