By Timothy Brands on
Friday, July 17, 2009
A client's internal study shows data sourcing work takes one-eighth the time when they have good metadata to work with.
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By Timothy Brands on
Friday, July 10, 2009
iBusiness Solutions is building a network of individuals, businesses, and organizations to provide children in several rural villages of Guatemala learning opportunities through computer technology.
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By Timothy Brands on
7/1/2009 3:35 PM
Effective business intelligence provides us with independence and freedom that comes from proactively identifying and capturing business opportunities.
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By Timothy Brands on
Friday, June 19, 2009
As we turn our focus away from professional sports, I want to continue in the vein of how organizations are leveraging the best of business intelligence. My hope is you can identify strategies and goals for the use of business intelligence within your organization. This time we will take a look at the New York Stock Exchange.
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By Timothy Brands on
Thursday, June 11, 2009
In the two previous postings on this subject, we looked at the metrics (part 1) and the data management (part 2) practices within professional sports. The final part in this series looks at the culmination of the sports world’s efforts to use data and metrics through the use of dashboards for communication and collaboration.
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By Timothy Brands on
Friday, June 05, 2009
In part 1 of this series, I overviewed how metrics impact decision-making in professional sports. In this post, let’s take a look at professional sports’ data management, an area of business intelligence that many businesses struggle with, even two decades after the advent of the data warehouse.
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By Timothy Brands on
Friday, May 29, 2009
Earlier this month, I had the privilege of presenting at The Prouty Project’s May Jammin’ Session on the topic of “Metrics and Dashboards for Faster, Wiser Decisions.” I used a fun analogy to compare and contrast the corporate world to the world of professional sports, highlighting that often we spend more time analyzing data from our home town sports teams than we do our businesses. We often know more statistics about our favorite player than our own sales team. We have more information for coaching a sports team (albeit from our most comfortable chair) than for coaching the people in our organization.
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