As time goes by, we find ourselves exhibiting three behaviors: collecting, letting go, and welcoming change. It’s easy to become a collector and tuck away objects without realizing the inevitable cluttered chaos that will slowly emerge into our lives. We do it at home with knick-knacks that we stuff in our kitchen drawers, and we also do it at work with data that collects and never gets used. Whatever it is that you’re collecting, at some point you recognize that there is simply too much of it and it’s finally time to part ways.More
5 Ways to a More Data-Driven Organization
So you have a lot of data. And you’ve heard a lot about the importance of being a “data-driven organization.” But your company just can’t seem to connect the dots between the data at hand and making better decisions.More
Practical Analysis
A new blog series by DI’s George Dealy. In this blog series, which I’m calling Practical Analysis, I’ll explore the emerging role of the analyst in helping to answer some questions that I’ll discuss below and in building a body of knowledge to take advantage of the data deluge. Hopefully by the end, you’ll be completely jazzed about your future as an analyst!More
Chaos v Control. The Art of Balancing Freedom & Governance in Data Analytics
The Key Message from Gartner’s Data Summit In Kathy’s blog highlighting key takeaways form the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit in Dallas, Texas which took place at the beginning of March 2017, she started by sharing the insights of Gartner analyst Thomas Oestrich. In his view organisations need to: Define their “rules of the game” […]