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MBAs As Data Designers
by Paul Sonderegger
The Haas business school at University of California Berkeley is reinventing itself for an information-rich world. Mixed in with the usual themes of leadership, culture, innovation is a new one – experimenting with information. And this is changing the way some of the classics are taught. According to The Economist, “the focus of [...]
Cyborg BI
by Paul Sonderegger
Forget about agile BI or self-service BI. Think bigger: Cyborg BI.
In his recent Wired story “The Cyborg Advantage,” Clive Thompson writes about a “freestyle” chess tournament where any kind of entrant was allowed – human, machine or a combination of both. The winner was neither a grandmaster nor a supercomputer. It was a couple of [...]
How Big Is The BI Backlog?
by Paul Sonderegger
The unending requests for custom reports and new data is a problem. But how big? In a new survey of 226 BI decision-makers, Forrester Consulting takes its measure.
The trigger for this work was the TDWI World Conference in Las Vegas earlier this year where the BI backlog was a big topic on one of the [...]
BI Needs A Revolution. But What Kind Will It Get?
by Paul Sonderegger
In his recent post, Revolutionary BI: When Agile is Not Fast Enough, Wayne Eckerson, Director Of Education And Research at The Data Warehousing Institute, called for a BI revolution. “Too many BI teams are shackled by outdated modes of industrial organization,” he says. Instead, BI teams need new tools and new approaches to be more [...]
You Can’t Run A Company On A Single Version Of The Truth
by Paul Sonderegger
Paul Sonderegger
Last week’s Data Warehousing Institute conference (TDWI, for all you cool data people) is one of the big events for business intelligence (BI) professionals. I was there to check up on the state of the industry and get a peek into the future. And there’s a big contrast between the two.
Bill Baker, CTO of [...]
It has not eaten you yet
by Paul Sonderegger
Paul Sonderegger
The Boston Globe recently ran a fascinating article titled “Easy = True”. The basic gist is that people prefer things that are easy to think about, to the point that if something is easy to understand, people are more likely to think it’s true. The implications of this are huge. Cognitive [...]
