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Time for the Single Product View?

April 7, 2014by Guy Cuthbert Leave a comment

Let’s start with the customer… The concept of the Single Customer View (also known as “SCV”, and sometimes referred to as “Single View of Customer”) has been with us for […]

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Consumer Goods & Retail, Data Management, Data-driven Business

A cautionary tale of data governance

November 3, 2013by Guy Cuthbert Leave a comment

Data governance is for geeks? Think that master data management is boring and never gets the attention of your senior management? Is data governance a tedious “IT thing” that your […]

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Data Management, Data-driven Business

Opinion-operated vs data-driven

May 11, 2013by Guy Cuthbert 6 Comments

Well, I think that… Thinking is good; few of us think often enough. Too many of us follow learnt behaviours without questioning whether they are effective or appropriate to the […]

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Data-driven Business

From HBR: IT fumbling analytics

March 8, 2013by Guy Cuthbert Leave a comment

Harvard Business Review certainly doesn’t need endorsement from me; its impact is well-known worldwide. So it’s the spirit of sharing with fellow Data Animators that I’m about to rave about […]

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Data-driven Business, Visual Analytics

Where is the “fix my business” button?

February 21, 2013by Guy Cuthbert 1 Comment

I’m a business guy – I own and run a small, growing business and empathise (or is that sympathise) with other businesspeople charged with managing, directing and shaping the businesses […]

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Data-driven Business, Visual Analytics

Why You Should Animate Your Data to Liberate It

February 12, 2013by Guy Cuthbert Leave a comment

Andy Cotgreave (@acotgreave) posted the following in reply to my comments on his article at The Huffington Post (link at foot of this post). My original comments were a shortened […]

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Data-driven Business, Visual Analytics

Muting the death knell of the data scientist

February 6, 2013by Guy Cuthbert 4 Comments

Two interesting, similarly-themed pieces from Cliff Cate at GoodData and Andy Cotgreave on the Huffington Post (nice to see Andy use the data animation metaphor!) have grabbed my attention over the past couple […]

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Data Management, Data-driven Business, Visual Analytics

Looking beyond Known Knowns

February 3, 2013by Guy Cuthbert 3 Comments

I’m back on an old soap box of mine; considering the all too-limited value that most businesses squeeze from their data. I could have titled this entry “Knowledge vs Data”, […]

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Data-driven Business, Visual Analytics

“It’s only by measuring we can cross the river of myths”

January 31, 2013by Guy Cuthbert Leave a comment

Hans Rosling goes myth-busting using the power of Visual Analytics in this 3-minute video. As always, Hans presents a fascinating, compelling story – in this case from a single animated bubble […]

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Data-driven Business, Visual Analytics

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