You can be #1 in Analytics! Here is How.

Gary Cokins
Gary Cokins|June 6, 2011

Where would you rank yourself and your organization with applying analytics to gain insights and make better decisions? Are you advanced so you can out-smart other organizations like yours to create and sustain value creation? Or are you at the opposite end of the continuum and muddling through by basing [...]

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The Urgent Crowds Out the Important

Gary Cokins
Gary Cokins|May 24, 2011

Do you ever wonder why it takes so long for organizations to adopt modern managerial methods than can help them make better decisions on a daily basis? Methods (and the software technologies that support them) such as business intelligence, analytics and balanced scorecards have proven benefits when it comes to [...]

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Economist or Iconomist? They needed Analytics!

Gary Cokins
Gary Cokins|April 19, 2011

Have you heard the joke about economists? Most of them are calling them an “iconomist” because they did not foresee the 2009 global credit crisis. Could they have benefited from using more robust analytics than what they relied on? As volatility increases – such as oil prices, foreign currency exchange [...]

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Stability versus Volatility

Gary Cokins
Gary Cokins|February 1, 2011

Chinese dynasties lasted centuries. Investments in companies by Silicon Valley California venture capitalists may last only months. Which is best? A controlled growth approach or grab it all while the going is good? The tortoise or the hare. Which one won the race? Japanese firms like Toyota and Honda have [...]

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Economist or Iconomist?

Gary Cokins
Gary Cokins|August 31, 2010

Have you heard the joke about economists? Most of them are calling them an “iconomist” because they did not foresee the 2009 global credit crisis. As volatility increases – such as oil prices, foreign currency exchange rates, and commodity prices – the task of macro-economic analysis becomes more challenging. The [...]

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Stability versus Volatility

Gary Cokins
Gary Cokins|April 13, 2010

Chinese dynasties lasted centuries. Investments in companies by Silicon Valley California venture capitalists may last only months. Which is best? A controlled growth approach or grab it all while the going is good? The tortoise or the hare. Which one won the race? Read the answers at my bi-monthly article [...]

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