Category Archives: business

Learning to hate Agile-at-scale

11 Saturday May 2019

Posted by in agile, All Data, Architecture, business, business strategy, Inform, educate and entertain., Methodology, Process, project management, scrum

≈ Leave a comment


StupidToScaleAfilonius Rex

Cordoba, 12th May 2019

Ladies and gentlemen, the performance is about to start!

In 1998, as Programme, Product and Competence Centre manager at Hewlett-Packard, I signed the Agile Manifesto.

At that time, I had been using elements of the Agile-method mindset for the best part of sixteen years.

Previously, in 1995 I was trained and certified in Iterations, an iterative and agile-like methodology for building, maintaining and expanding data warehouses and data marts. Continue reading →

Postmodern Digital Stories: We’ve never seen anything like this before

23 Wednesday Aug 2017

Posted by in business, Business Intelligence, business strategy, digital transformation, Good Strat, Good Strategy, Good Strategy Radio, Inform, educate and entertain., IT strategy, pomo, postmodern, Social Media, Strategy

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

, , ,


Picture2Martyn Richard Jones

Dunny on the Wold, 23rd August 2017

The prevailing conventional wisdom is that innovative technologies and their novel use are having an effect on many peoples’ lives. Indeed, the fascination with the possibilities offered by social media, the internet and the age of data is becoming all pervasive. Of course, not all is goodness and light. Some aspects, such as Denial of Service attacks, phishing without a permit and creatively-ambiguous chimping, mark the down side of this story. Continue reading →

Donald, Mayor of Trumpton, USA

04 Friday Aug 2017

Posted by in behaviour, business, business strategy, Good Strategy, Inform, educate and entertain., Politics, POTUS, Sociology, Strategy, USA

≈ 1 Comment

Tags

, , , , , , , ,


iJNuUzKMartyn Jones

Bornheim, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany – 4th August 2017

Like him or loath him, the fact of the matter is that the 45th President of the USA is Donald Trump.

Many see him as a blow-dried extrovert who can close big business deals and get the important jobs done. Others see him as an uncouth, ignorant and potty-mouthed bully, totally unfit for any public office – even that of dog-catcher.

He may have lots of detractors both sides of the beltway, but Donald Trump, who has been compared favourably with Andrew Jackson, has retained considerable support, especially in the rustbelt and coal mining communities.

Continue reading →

What Every CEO Needs to Know About Big Data

18 Wednesday Jan 2017

Posted by in All Data, Big Data, Big Data 7s, Big Data Analytics, business, Business Intelligence, business strategy, dark data, data architecture, Data governance, Data Lake, data management, data science, Data Supply Framework, Data Warehouse, Data Warehousing, Inform, educate and entertain., pig data, The Amazing Big Data Challenge, The Big Data Contrarians

≈ 2 Comments


Martyn Richard Jones

New York City, 18th January 2017

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

Blue sky for professional data architecture and management

Scope

I’ll make this short, sweetish and to the point.

These are the arguments that CEOs need to know about Big Data.

It was written for CEOs and those who provide independent advice to CEOs.

If you are someone who wants to be prepared for CEOs who are armed with the realities of Big Data, then maybe this is for you too. Continue reading →

Big Data on the Roof of the World

29 Monday Aug 2016

Posted by in All Data, Ask Martyn, Big Data, Big Data 7s, Big Data Analytics, business, Business Intelligence, business strategy, dark data, data architecture, Data governance, Data Lake, data management, good start, Good Strat, Good Strategy, goodstart, goodstartegy, goodstrat, Inform, educate and entertain., Martyn does, Martyn Jones, Martyn Richard Jones

≈ Leave a comment


Mount_Everest_as_seen_from_Drukair2_PLW_editOnce upon a time, there was a mountain known as Peak 15. Very little was known about it. Then in 1852, surveyors found it was the highest in the world, and they named it Everest.

As with other significant challenges that we can identify in life, many people have been driven by a passionate desire to conquer peaks all around the world. This is just one illustration of those of us who can identify their significant challenges and rise to them. This sharp focus, determination and courage turns ordinary citizens into people who are invariably on a mission. People who know what they want. Continue reading →

Why Management Fails in Information Strategy

14 Tuesday Oct 2014

Posted by in Architecture, Assets, business, Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Management, Value

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

, , , , , , , , ,


In the dim and distant past most organisations struggled along with what they euphemistically referred to as Information Systems.

They were Information Systems with no overall design, no elements of management and no architecture.

Information Systems were built to show how the company had been performing in the immediate past, and that was it. Continue reading →

The IT Circus and the Infinite Loop – Part 1 – 2026 Remake

10 Friday Oct 2014

Posted by in Ask Martyn, awareness, Best principles, Big Data, business, Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

, , , , , , , ,


Martyn Richard Jones

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 →

Understanding Operational Awareness for Strategic Success – For 2026

08 Wednesday Oct 2014

Posted by in awareness, Big Data, business, Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse, operational, pig data, Strategy

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

, , , , , , ,


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 →