01 Wednesday Oct 2014
Posted in Ask Martyn, Big Data, Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse
If you judged everything by what the media tells us, you would get the impression that the world is in continuous revolt. Violence, destruction and protest is everywhere. It’s like as if every hour of the day there is one reason or another to go marching, standing or sitting somewhere about something.
Well, that’s the impression one may get.
23 Tuesday 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.
GOOD STRATEGY 