Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning, Davenport, Thomas H. and Jeanne G. Harris
Tom Davenport has turned his attention of late to the prospects for business intelligence and information analytics. Competing on Analytics offers a managerial introduction to the topic. It emphasizes why organizations ought to be interested in the topic, what kinds [...]
Welcome to those of you visiting courtesy of Liz Strauss. This place started as an experiment while I was teaching courses in IT and Knowledge Management at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management. This was in the Fall of 2001 and blogs were still relatively new. I saw them then and now as an important part [...]
One of the many lovely things about blogging is the way that people redirect your attention to things you’ve looked at before; calling attention to important insights that you missed the first time around or have simply forgotten. Back in May, the folks at SIGNAL VS. NOISE pointed to a passage in Christopher Alexander’s A [...]
Tagged Alexander, expertiseDoing science is fundamentally a state of mind more than any particular set of tools or any particular domain of knowledge.
How do you know when you’re doing science wrong?
Easy:
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More in the same vein from xkcd.
Fostering these attitudes is increasingly relevant in organizational settings. We’re awash in data [...]
