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Dings to talk about when offshoring data

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Restless minds will want to know what Asian manufacture of furniture, clothes, electronics and other goods has to do with business intelligence.

A globe-trotting industrial engineer who’d rather not be named has been telling me about different perceptions of quality among nationalities. He works on contract to American companies to ensure that product quality lives up to agreements.

When Americans buys new stuff, they assume it’ll come out of the box without dings, dents, scrapes or other flaws. Seams will be tight, electrical joints will be well soldered, paint on the fender will match the hood, wood veneer will be smooth.… Read the rest “Dings to talk about when offshoring data”

Risky projects need the “electricity” of heterarchies

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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 a recent strategy+business magazine says that sometimes—such as when creating a politically risky new system, such as in BI, where powerful people fear embarrassment—what matters most is trust.… Read the rest “Risky projects need the “electricity” of heterarchies”