Time for the Single Product View?
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 […]
Category Archives: Data-driven Business
A cautionary tale of data governance
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 […]
Opinion-operated vs data-driven
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 […]
From HBR: IT fumbling analytics
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 […]
Where is the “fix my business” button?
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 […]
Why You Should Animate Your Data to Liberate It
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 […]
Muting the death knell of the data scientist
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 […]
Looking beyond Known Knowns
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”, […]
“It’s only by measuring we can cross the river of myths”
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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