June 1, 2011April 2, 2012Finance, Interviews, Plan & Forecast, Sticky Success with Forecasting – A discussion with Pieter Coens Please meet Pieter Coens. Pieter is the Director of Finance & Control at Landal GreenParks in the Netherlands. He started his career […] Share this:ShareTweet Share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) WhatsApp Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email
May 30, 2011August 11, 2011Finance, Interviews, Risk & Compliance What is IBM Cognos FSR? Back in October 2010, IBM acquired a company that Gartner used to call ‘The hottest FPM vendor’. Rightly so. Clarity Systems had […] Share this:ShareTweet Share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) WhatsApp Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email
May 25, 2011January 8, 2012Analytics Is data valueable? “How can data be so valuable?” That is the provocative question a friend asked me a few days ago. We had a […] Share this:ShareTweet Share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) WhatsApp Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email
May 22, 2011August 11, 2011Analytics, Sticky The analytics of cycling A few months ago, I posted an article about analytics in cycling. This post still remains one of the most popular posts […] Share this:ShareTweet Share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) WhatsApp Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email
May 19, 2011January 8, 2012Visualization The Eternal Timeline – Visualizing Unstructured Information Is history boring? Sometimes. But it really shouldn’t be. There is too much to learn and there is an abundance of stories […] Share this:ShareTweet Share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) WhatsApp Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email
May 17, 2011August 8, 2011Presenting Making data sing in presentations The other day, I made a bold statement about presentations: many of them suck and they especially suck when it comes to […] Share this:ShareTweet Share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) WhatsApp Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email
May 11, 2011December 22, 2011Presenting Data + Powerpoint = Wasted Time? Let me be blunt and honest: Too many presentations and their accompanying slide decks absolutely suck. And they especially suck when it […] Share this:ShareTweet Share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) WhatsApp Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email
May 10, 2011February 22, 2012Dashboarding, Visualization Waterfall charts, pareto analysis and beyond Waterfall Charts? Do you like pies? I do! But not for analyzing data. Pie charts are just too busy and too hard […] Share this:ShareTweet Share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) WhatsApp Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email
May 6, 2011January 8, 2012Analytics Vision with short-term thinking? A few days ago, I took friends to the famous Neuschwanstein Castle. It’s close to my house – right around 100km and […] Share this:ShareTweet Share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) WhatsApp Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email
May 3, 2011September 26, 2012Reading, Social How to read more blogs on your iPad About a year ago I discovered a true treasure: Blogs. No, I didn’t find out about them a year ago. Just like […] Share this:ShareTweet Share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) WhatsApp Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email