Innovation Evangelism
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Relying on Data Can Lead to the Wrong Decisions Says CFO.com
I just read a new CFO Magazine article called “That New Big Data Magic”, which contains the following opening paragraphs: Back in the 1980s, American Airlines (AA) was partnered with British Airways (BA), and AA’s marketing head wanted to know how many of the airline’s gold card members, its most profitable customers, were flying BA…
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Carbon Footprint Analysis Leads to Concrete Savings: Walkers Crisps
Carbon footprint calculations are really just another form of efficiency analysis. Walkers Crisps saved money and energy by looking at the carbon footprint of their products. Maybe you can, too?
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Flawed Decision Process and the Deadly Sproutbreak
Why did it take so long to discover the source of the deadly outbreak of E.coli poisoning in Germany? Bad decision process. Don’t let it happen to you.
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SAP World Tour Slovenia
I recently had the honor of presenting the keynote for the SAP World Tour in Slovenia (in Brdo, one of Tito’s old hunting estates, near Ljubljana). The event was kicked off by the SAP country manager, Simon Kaluža. I covered the standard “Run Better” keynote slides, but at the request of the organizers, included some…
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Business Analytics in Poland
It was the SAP World Tour in Sopot, Poland last week, and I had the honor of presenting a keynote session on business analytics.
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Mobile BI Isn’t Only About Mobile
Mobile business intelligence isn’t only about mobility — it’s also about exceptional ease-of-use, and because of this, we’ll see these devices replace, not just augmented, “normal BI”
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Business Analytics in Lisbon
The SAP Business Analytics Forum took place in Lisbon, Portugal on May 17th at the Belem Cultural Center. Here are some highlights of the event, including ANA, the Portuguese Airports company, showing off their extranet BI dashboards.
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Beware What You Call Gambling
A lot of the literature about performance management likes to assume that the world is a perfectly ordered place, that the right actions will result in increased performance, and that bad performance indicates there’s a problem. But the real world is a place where sheer randomness has big effects, and is especially prevalent hanything to…
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SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 Launch, Paris
The SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 Launch in Paris was one of the most interesting I attended. Here’s some of the content (speaking French helps!)
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Business Analytics @ SAPPHIRE NOW Live Online — What I Watched on Day 1
I attended some of the Business Analytics track sessions at SAPPHIRE NOW online, available for free at sapphirenow.com. Here’s some summaries and highlights of the sessions I attended.