June 5, 2012June 4, 2012Analytics, Finance, Interviews Success with Performance Management – An interview with Mark Lack from Mueller Inc. The 80 year-old company Mueller Inc is a a leading manufacturer of pre-engineered metal buildings and metal roofing products. Mark Lack is […] Share this:ShareTweet Share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) WhatsApp Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email
January 19, 2012March 8, 2012Analytics Are CMOs in denial of the new normal? The IBM CMO Study The IBM CMO Study Last week, I wrote about Dan Zarrella’s book ‘Zarrella’s Hierarchy of Contagiousness‘. The author declares that many marketing […] Share this:ShareTweet Share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) WhatsApp Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email
November 3, 2011December 2, 2011Analytics, Reading How Business Analytics can drive creativity & innovation Last weekend I was reviewing my recent photography portfolio. I noticed an interesting theme: my favorite photographs seemed to be clustered around […] 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
April 19, 2011February 28, 2012Daily news Three lessons from the Flip story Did you read the news the other day? Cisco is shutting down it’s Flip business unit. I was a bit stunned. They […] Share this:ShareTweet Share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) WhatsApp Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email
March 21, 2011December 15, 2012Dashboarding, Visualization Why sparklines sparkle in a dashboard SPARKLINES SPARKLE One of the key features of the dashboard in any car is the fact that it is on a ‘single […] Share this:ShareTweet Share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) WhatsApp Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email
March 14, 2011December 2, 2011Dashboarding, Visualization Hands-up! Here comes a bullet chart Executives often want to have a quick overview of some key metrics to find out what the state of their business is. […] Share this:ShareTweet Share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) WhatsApp Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email
March 3, 2011January 11, 2012Dashboarding, Sticky, Visualization What photography taught me about dashboards Photography and dashboards? Huh? Fire and Ice? Photography is a big and important hobby of mine. And it is a tough hobby. […] Share this:ShareTweet Share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) WhatsApp Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email
February 3, 2011January 15, 2012Analytics, Events Two days @ the Gartner BI Summit London Heathrow, Terminal 5. 6pm GMT. I am tired. Really tired. Museum visits, shopping trips and conference whirlwinds belong to a category […] Share this:ShareTweet Share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) WhatsApp Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email
January 21, 2011January 15, 2012Dashboarding, Reading, Various IBM Business Analytics at the Gartner BI Summit 2011 It’s that time of the year! The annual Gartner BI Summit is just around the corner. This year’s edition will take place […] Share this:ShareTweet Share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) WhatsApp Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email