Datadoodle

Home » book » Page 2

book

Barry Devlin: People are the third element of the business “trinity”

by

Barry Devlin’s elegant writing style and the wisdom of his observations in Business unIntelligence convinced me at first graze that it would be worth reading. Then today, as I needed a reason to make time, I came across this.

Business exists, not to make money, but for and because of peoples’ needs to interact and trade the fruits of their labors.

I think that’s correct. It’s also a bold statement to an industry run by technology within a business culture mostly driven by other values. Even better, it promises more. We can hope it gives the BI industry a prod. Who has more credibility to do so than a co-inventor of the data warehouse?… Read the rest “Barry Devlin: People are the third element of the business “trinity””

Men in the middle see both sides of the IT-business split

by

The in-between people see it all from their position between IT and business users. Wayne Eckerson calls them the “purple people” because they’re half IT red and half business blue, and others might call them just con artists. By either name, they see more than the purebreds.

Today at the sixth Tableau Customer Conference, just upwind from Washington D.C, I ran into two men in such roles.

They appear in one set of clothes when facing the information technology people. Then in an instant they turn around to appear in other clothes to business people. They win the confidence of both.

It’s “business UN-intelligence” without intuition, insight, and inspiration

by

The little joke among people who first hear of business intelligence is that it sounds like an oxymoron. But now someone who’s high on my list of experts in this industry, a founder of data warehousing, has used it seriously in a challenge to the business intelligence industry.

Barry Devlin writes in a blog post, “Much of the business behavior I’ve encountered has been far from intelligent.”
No argument there. He keeps going. “What about intuition, insight or inspiration? Should we not also consider social aspects, given that business is largely a collective, collaborative venture?”

I like it. It’s all in the first blog post of a series that introduces his forthcoming book, Business unIntelligence: Insight and Innovation Beyond Analytics and Big Data.… Read the rest “It’s “business UN-intelligence” without intuition, insight, and inspiration”