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BI’s New Frontiers – “not your father’s BI”

February 1, 2008

James Kobielus of Forrester posted on BI’s New Frontiers In 2008 And Beyond. While James made some interesting points I think that he missed perhaps the most interesting one – whether what we call “BI” today will be able to evolve into what we need in the future or whether these new frontiers will require [...]

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Book Review – The power to predict

August 26, 2007

The Power to Predict: How Real Time Businesses Anticipate Customer Needs, Create Opportunities, and beat the competition
I recently read The Power to Predict: How Real Time Businesses Anticipate Customer Needs, Create Opportunities, and Beat the Competition by Vivek Ranadive (CEO of Tibco). I liked the book – it was readable and well-written. It was [...]

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Book Review – Competing on Analytics

February 26, 2007

Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning by Tom Davenport and Jeanne Harris
Tom and Jeanne have written a new book (building on a paper they wrote some time ago) about what they call “analytic competitors”, that is to say companies that use their analytic prowess not just to enhance their operations but as their [...]

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Book Review – The world is flat

December 14, 2006

The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
I have just finished reading “The World Is Flat” by Thomas Friedman. Firstly a health warning – it’s a REALLY long book. Even skimming some sections it took me a long while to read it. Overall it is a good if somewhat long winded read. [...]

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Book Review – The only sustainable edge

November 30, 2006

The Only Sustainable Edge: Why Business Strategy Depends on Productive Friction and Dynamic Specialization
In this book John and John discuss how recent changes in the world will force, indeed are forcing, companies to change how they think about offshoring and outsourcing, innovation and even their core business processes. They describe how a combination of “Converging [...]

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