San Francisco cab driver’s dashboard
I asked a San Francisco taxi driver I happened to sit next to about indicators he sees. I didn’t mean “low oil,” I meant big things. Whether the economy is still falling or not, for one. Figure out how to collect tip data from cabbies and waiters and you’ve have a good early indicator of [...]
Not just one tool alone anymore
This time of year it’s tempting to sit under a tree and wait for the apple to drop. Aha, a trend! But it’s better to go asking smart people what they think, and Dave Wells—former TDWI education director and now a consultant—is one of the smartest I know. He says the one-tool-fits-all scenario is going [...]
BI culture: not a science, more like an art form
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.
BI events and trends in a tag cloud
No sooner did TDWI’s newsweekly post three views of business intelligence trends and events than the combined text appeared as a tag cloud on Many Eyes. BI This Week editor Jim Powell had asked me, Stephen Swoyer and Mike Schiff to cough up two lists: events from 2007 and trends we expect in 2008. They [...]
My latest at ‘BI This Week’: ’07 events and ’08 trends
Events and Trends: A Conversation About 2007 and 2008 (12/19/2007) Acquisitions of pure-play BI vendors was the big story, but the meaning will play out in 2008. How will the smaller vendors find a place in the new ecosystem?
