Bestselling author Steven Covey has made a fortune with tips like begin with the end in mind. I've never met the man, but I'm virtually certain that Covey was not talking specifically about data visualization when he gave that advice. Yet, it's remarkable how often that ostensibly logical axiom seems
Previously, I outlined a “bridge to nowhere” situation involving a former client and a CRM system that failed to achieve its goals. The CRM software ultimately became a well-intentioned business application with little real business application. In this post, I'll review the steps that this company missed with the CRM
Jim Harris on data foodies, iron chefs and big data fast food.
Each year during springtime in the Midwest, we long-suffering residents slowly disentangle ourselves from the grips of Old Man Winter – one twisted finger at a time. Like clockwork, with spring comes hopes of golf, and dreams of that par game I was never able to put together last summer. So (ever hopeful) I visited a golf
Are data quality practitioners too negative? Dylan Jones (@dataqualitypro) weighs in.
Facts about Google astonish me. For instance, one in ten of its searches is on a person. So says Todd Silverstein, CEO of Vizify, a personal data visualization company. Imagine if Googling a person didn't just return a home page or a LinkedIn profile, but a visual, 360-degree view of
Jim Harris (@ocdqblog) argues that there's only one right way to do data governance.
Stuck on the Fort Duquesne Bridge in Pittsburgh one afternoon during rush hour, I was pondering a recent conversation with an old client. The client, a mid-sized financial institution, is considering master data management (MDM) to help them better understand their customer relationships.
