Analytics

Observer Effect

A Concept from Quantum Physics Can Improve Your Operations

Best Use: Improving efficiency of processes If you are stumbling down a dark alley and see a guy about to kill...
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What are your real business problems?

The Problem You Think You Have is Often Not Your Problem

What are the biggest challenges you are facing in your business right now? I just posted this question on a small business...
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Integrating Data Analytics Into HR Is the Future of this Department

As businesses push further toward total optimization, companies are rapidly turning to the power of data, using it to increase efficiency...
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Making Your First Analytics Hire? Don’t Make It a Data Scientist

There is a disconnect that often exists when an organization is just getting started with analytics. One of the key factors...
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Data: It takes a village, but the buck has to stop somewhere

I’ve said many times: too often, an existing function implicitly assumes data responsibilities in organizations that struggle with data management (for...
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I think I’m responsible for data… am I?

It’s more times than I can count on one hand. A business or technology leader tells me they have a lot...
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The Quality of Analytics Practice: Making It Happen

In my previous blog, “Who is looking after the quality of your analytics?”, I talked about what it meant to ensure...
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Who is looking after the quality of your analytics?

We talk a lot about using analytics to improve the quality of something else. But when was the last time you...
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How to Automate Analytics Professionals Out of Their Jobs

I would be a big fat liar if I say I have never wasted time. I’ve been unproductive and procrastinated plenty...
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Why “AI/ML” Will Land Me in Jail, and My Other Pet Peeves

I joke quite a bit about how I am annoyed by a lot of things. I do have a lot of...
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AI as A Catalyst for Data Governance

“What is the fruit of these teachings? Only the most beautiful and proper harvest of the truly educated — tranquility, fearlessness,...
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Three Imperatives for Successfully “Outsourcing” Analytics

I’ve been on the service provider side of analytics for my entire professional life. I’ve also been in leadership positions in...
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