{"id":11992,"date":"2009-02-28T21:34:25","date_gmt":"2009-02-28T20:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.220.58.236\/blog\/?p=144"},"modified":"2009-02-28T21:34:25","modified_gmt":"2009-02-28T20:34:25","slug":"who_has_the_data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/who_has_the_data.html","title":{"rendered":"Who Has the Data?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most organizations like to assert that they are \u201cfact-driven\u201d. But the reality of mundane, everyday decision making doesn\u2019t always match the rhetoric, and force of personality (or simply seniority!) often swings the debate.<\/p>\n<p>But information is still power. As SAP BusinessObjects marketing VP <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/ppl\/webprofile?action=gwp&amp;id=1978149\" target=\"_blank\">Franz Aman<\/a> explained in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonerp.com\/content\/view\/237\/41\/1\/2\/\" target=\"_blank\">recent podcast<\/a> with Jon Reed of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonerp.com\" target=\"_blank\">JonERP.com<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt&#8217;s stunning every single time when you get into a discussion, whether it&#8217;s at the board level or whether it&#8217;s at the project team level, the moment the person with data around the table speaks up, shows the data, the discussion immediately takes a turn.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;ve seen so many of these discussions at all kinds of levels where people are arguing their points, they&#8217;re making great arguments, they&#8217;re very convincing, very assertive &#8211; but the moment the one person around the table with the data speaks up, all that crumbles and you have a whole different level of discussion.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wouldn\u2019t you like to be the person in the picture below? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sap.com\/solutions\/sapbusinessobjects\/index.epx\" target=\"_blank\">Invest in some great business intelligence!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/WindowsLiveWriter\/Itsallaboutthepersonwiththedata_E4EA\/i-have-data_3.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px\" title=\"I actually have data!\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/WindowsLiveWriter\/Itsallaboutthepersonwiththedata_E4EA\/i-have-data_thumb.jpg?resize=480%2C238&#038;ssl=1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"I actually have data!\" width=\"480\" height=\"238\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:34cbc3a4-3aa0-4397-bab3-2fdc10118639\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati Tags: <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/BI\">BI<\/a>,<a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/BusinessObjects\">BusinessObjects<\/a>,<a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/SAP\">SAP<\/a>,<a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Data\">Data<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When one person in the meeting actually has data, it changes the whole meeting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[160,204,226],"class_list":["post-11992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bi","tag-business-intelligence","tag-cartoon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/i-have-data_thumb-1.jpg?fit=480%2C238&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3X9RF-37q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}