What the early days of desktop publishing may tell about today’s self-service BI. Read all about it in my latest column at Information Management.
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Don’t weep for IT
Just by chance, two ostensibly unrelated items arrived here at Datadoodle headquarters on the same day last week.
First, the Department of Here and There received notice of a comment on a post by Information Management editorial director Jim Ericson about his video interview of eLearning Curve director of education Dave Wells. In the interview, Dave described a convergence of forces, a “perfect storm,” that will overwhelm IT shops. Comments ensued, including this one:
… Read the rest “Don’t weep for IT”… I only hope those who refuse to be intimidated by “IT buzzwords” understand that it’s not going to happen by magic … someone still needs to know what they are doing … and it ain’t glamorous.
Impress your colleagues with year-end predictions!
Why should the smart people have all the fun with year-end predictions? You can issue your own! At this time of year, even hopeless nitwits can seem smart.
Once you set up a blog — any free service will do — all you have to do is throw together your trends. Keep these easy-to-use techniques in mind.
• Re-use last year’s trends. Does anyone really believe that 2010’s trends sat down in December for a cosmo and never stood up again? You can safely predict that this year’s trends will be next year’s, too.
• Search in Google for your industry’s name and “trends.”… Read the rest “Impress your colleagues with year-end predictions!”