20 Sat Dec 2014
Posted in Big Data, Data governance, Data Warehousing
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Martyn Richard Jones
Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy; he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is!
From the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Big Data is dead! Long live Information Management. Continue reading
09 Tue Dec 2014
Posted in Big Data, Marty does
Martyn Richard Jones
2026 Remaster
HERE WE GO WITH BIG DATA VIBESClive: Yeah, well, you had to, didn’t you? You had to stand up for what you stood for, didn’t you? I mean, the only time I remember a similar occasion was, I was in, errm… I was at Spurs, Tottenham Hotspurs.
Derek: Yeah.
Clive: I was watching a game against Arsenal, and this bloke come up to me and said, “Hello”.
Derek: Oh no…
Derek and Clive – This Bloke Came Up to Me Continue reading
26 Sun Oct 2014
Posted in Analytics, Architecture, Ask Martyn, awareness, Big Data, BS, deceit, governance, Stories
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awareness, Behavioural Economics, Big Data, BS, crap, data analytics, deceit, enterprise data warehousing, history, hustlers, IT business, lies, Organisational Autism, Pimps, spin
Written by Martyn Richard Jones
What does Big Data have to do with Robitussin?
I will explain.
12 Sun Oct 2014
Posted in Architecture, Ask Martyn, Banking, Best principles, Big Data, Business Intelligence, Creativity, Data Warehouse, Dogma, Knowledge, Peeves
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Banking, Behavioural Economics, Big Data, Bill Inmon, business intelligence, data integration, Data Marts, Demagogism, Dogma, enterprise data warehousing, hadoop, Information and Technology, information management
This weekend I read a piece on the Information Management website by Steve Miller with the title of Big Data vs. the Data Warehouse. It’s an old piece, from March 2014.
It was in response to a piece by Bill Inmon titled “Big Data or Data Warehouse?” Turbocharge Your Porsche – Buy an Elephant, in which he singled out for criticism the ad campaign of a big-data and Hadoop promoter.
11 Sat Oct 2014
Posted in Big Data, BS, Data Warehouse, disinformation, information, Knowledge, wisdom
Martyn Richard Jones
Remaster for 2026
I am a sceptic. Part of the awkward squad of troublemakers.
People who ask questions and who won’t stop asking.
People who won’t take bullshit for an answer.
People who are not preprogrammed to unquestioningly follow specific paths.
But to question everything.
Such as, “What the feck’s that all about then?” Continue reading
10 Fri Oct 2014
Posted in Big Data, Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse, Management
Martyn Richard Jones
A remake for 2026
Sometimes I get asked in to support the manager of a failing project.
Most of the time I get to take over a failing project, with or without the previous manager’s involvement.
Occasionally I am called in to act as a Project Manager for clients who have brought in Systems Integrators and Management Consultants to do most of the project work.
10 Fri Oct 2014
Posted in Ask Martyn, awareness, Best principles, Big Data, business, Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse
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Big Data, business intelligence, Commercial IT, Corporate IT, Data Warehouse, IT business, IT Strategy, Pimps, Pundits
The IT business suffers a malaise, it also affects other businesses. In IT, like in other lines of business, much of what has been made is eventually sidelined and forgotten. If it was ever on the radar in the first place. Continue reading
08 Wed Oct 2014
Posted in awareness, Big Data, business, Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse, operational, pig data, Strategy
Martyn Richard Jones
Remastered for 2026 – Buy my books! Get my advice! Benefit from me!
I frequently include the term Operational Awareness in talks.
I think it’s important for strategy.
So I wrote a piece that tried to convey what I mean by the term. Continue reading
08 Wed Oct 2014
Posted in Big Data, Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse, Dogma, Peeves
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Behavioural Economics, Big Data, business intelligence, Data Warehouse, enterprise data warehousing
Martyn Richard Jones
2026 Remaster
The problem with Data Warehousing is that at a superficially high level, it is very easy to explain, and it’s quite impressive that this superficially high level is all that a lot of people need in order to do data warehousing their own way.
06 Mon Oct 2014
Posted in Best principles, Big Data, Creativity, Executive, Knowledge, Management
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Analytics, Behavioural Economics, Big Data, Dogma, Economics, Financial, Goal Setting, Marketing, Strategy
Martyn Richard Jones
Remaster 2026
Hi, I’m Ricky Jonesy-Innit, boss of Becci Boo Investments.
Last week, we said goodbye to our best commodity trader.
He’d been with us for years.
GOOD STRATEGY 