30 Tue Sep 2014
Posted in Big Data
You walk down the street, maybe in London, Paris and Rome. You look out of your spacious apartment in Manhattan, Unter den Linden or Mahim. You are cycling slowly along the streets of Amsterdam, Bonn or Zurich.
Got the picture?
30 Tue Sep 2014
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Behavioural Economics, Business, Business Management, business strategy, Organisational Autism, Strategy
You’ve heard the stories. Little Johnny did this, little Johnny did that, little Johnny did god knows what.
30 Tue Sep 2014
Posted in Analytics, Big Data, Business Intelligence, Climate Change, Excerpt, Peeves
You may well have seen all the climate change events around the world. 23rd September saw the biggest ever Climate Change awareness march the world has produced to date. Al Gore was there, Ban Ki Moon was there, Leonardo DiCaprio was there… even Prince Chuck was there.
28 Sun Sep 2014
Posted in Architecture, Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse, Excellence
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Behavioural Economics, business analysis, Business Enablement, business intelligence, enterprise data warehousing, IT Strategy, Organisational Autism
Young Einstein was awaiting the birth of his sister. His mother and father had been telling him for months to look forward to having somebody to play with. When Einstein eventually got to see his sister, he exclaimed disappointedly “But, it doesn’t have wheels!”
That happens a lot in IT. Young Einstein had a very good excuse, we don’t.
27 Sat Sep 2014
Posted in Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse, Peeves
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BI, Business Enablement, business intelligence, Business Management, enterprise data warehousing, IT Strategy, Organisational Autism
In a city centre office block, somewhere in Scotland, the conversation between the IT Business Manager (Bill) and the Information Management Manager (Richie) is in full swing,, Bob is irate because his successfully delivered data mart has been derided as unusable rubbish by the business people it was meant to serve.
Let’s join the conversation: Continue reading
25 Thu Sep 2014
Posted in Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse, Peeves
Simple question, why do I write this blog? To enlighten? To inform? To help? To save mother earth?
Well, no, of course not.
24 Wed Sep 2014
Posted in Uncategorized
Hola, You’ve reached the Good Strategy Blog of Martyn Jones (Strategist, leader and coach), I am unable to personally take your call at this time, but please browse through the content here and leave as many messages as you like. I will try and respond to all comments in the fullness of time, or sooner, as the case may be. Yours strategically, Martyn
Many thanks for reading.
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23 Tue Sep 2014
Posted in Ask Martyn, Extract
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business analysis, Business Enablement, business intelligence, Business Management, business strategy, enterprise data warehousing, information management, Organisational Autism, Strategy
It’s 9:45 on a cold and wintry Monday morning; crowds of people are huddled around the water fountains as gossip spreads throughout the building like wildfire. There has been a multiple data pile up in the Widget and Wodget data centre, there are a few casualties but no reported fatalities. No one knows what quite is going on, as shadowy rumour hints at flying pigs, rebellious ducks and rolling heads.
It was to be a big day for Widget and Wodget, “your neighbourhood’s favourite Prime Brokers”, it was billed as the Senior Mega Monday to end all Mega Mondays. A mega coup for the hallowed financial institution of W&W; today would be the day that would herald in the culmination of two major IPOs and one multi-billion global M&A deal signed off, as well as the launch of a raft of CDOs.
21 Sun Sep 2014
Posted in Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse, Extract
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BI, Business Enablement, business intelligence, business strategy, data integration, enterprise data warehousing, information management, MDM, Organisational Autism, Requirements management, Strategy
For more than 34 years I have been trying to convince IT organisations that it is not in their best interests to play Santa Claus, especially when it comes to strategy and data management.
I have tried – again and again, to make people pay attention to this advice, because I think that acting upon this take-away in an intelligent manner is absolutely central for the success of IT, for the benefit of business, and ultimately for the effective realization of Information Management; whether that is Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence, Data Integration, Decision Support, Data Analytics, Big Data or MDM.
Continue reading18 Thu Sep 2014
Posted in Extract
Peace. Tranquility. Mastery.
Catriona Arbusto, an exceptionally talented management consultant, is coming to the end of her presentation. There are people in the room (actually far too many people for it to be simply quirky) staring into the comfortably-numb, banal and vacant order of their smart phones. Continue reading
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