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.”
Why IT guys write that way
“IT Guy” hits the spot with his response to Ann All’s post “Translate IT into English for Big Business Benefits”:
Human benefits for BI itself in a slower economy
If this year’s economic slowdown lets BI-ready companies “kill the competition,” as one consultant I talked to last week expects them to, BI itself will win in not-so-obvious ways.
First, if BI really does show its stuff, projects will attract and keep good people more easily. “Every BI client have been people-short,” says Sid Adelman, “either with no headcount or unable to attract good people.”
Second, BI will finally get the attention of company “big guys,” as one guy puts it (who can be called only a senior ETL architect at a major BI vendor).
Mr. Anonymous says, “I find it astounding that people go into project wo looking at power dynamic in an organization.… Read the rest “Human benefits for BI itself in a slower economy”