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What Lego can teach us about implementing Business Analytics

Lego is amazing. Lego is a smart toy. It teaches us and our kids many things. Lego can especially teach us a […]

“How can data be so valuable?” That is the provocative question a friend asked me a few days ago. We had a […]

A few months ago, I posted an article about analytics in cycling. This post still remains one of the most popular posts […]

Let me be blunt and honest: Too many presentations and their accompanying slide decks absolutely suck. And they especially suck when it […]

A few days ago, I took friends to the famous Neuschwanstein Castle. It’s close to my house – right around 100km and […]

Did you read the news the other day? Cisco is shutting down it’s Flip business unit. I was a bit stunned. They […]

Greetings from Vienna: home of the schnitzel, yummy dumplings and lot’s of amazing history. But Vienna is also the hub of many […]

A picture says more than a thousand words, right? Managers drown in pages of numeric reports. But as John Medina, author of […]

Things can be complex. Especially when we look at multi-dimensional data-sets. The objective of charts is to visualize data in the most […]

SPARKLINES SPARKLE One of the key features of the dashboard in any car is the fact that it is on a ‘single […]