10 Friday 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 Friday 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
09 Thursday Oct 2014
Posted in Analytics, Best principles, Business Intelligence, Executive, Extract, Knowledge, Offshoring, Outsourcing
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Behavioural Economics, Big Data, Business Enablement, business intelligence, Business Management, business strategy, Challenges, Creativity, Data Warehouse, Organisational Autism
We analysed all the big data and discovered that the biggest reason for IT project failure is people – Big Data Informs…
We had failed at Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence, Core Competence, and quite a few other things, so some bright spark decided to give Big Data a shot.
The first task was to identify the reasons for IT project failure globally.
08 Wednesday 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 Wednesday Oct 2014
Posted in Ask Martyn, Best principles, Business Intelligence, Strategy, tactics
What triggers a review of organisational strategy?
Well, typically organisations usually shy away from major strategy reviews when things are just ticking over quite nicely. The old axiom of “if it isn’t broke don’t fix it”, has a lot of power of persuasion, even in cases where the logical and coherent thing to do would be to continually review strategy.
08 Wednesday 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.
07 Tuesday Oct 2014
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Banking, Behavioural Economics, Big Data, business intelligence, Business Management, Demagogism, Dogma
Martyn Richard Jones
Remastered for 2026
Much of my consulting work is done in the Financial Industry.
I was there when the crisis was prepared, when it was baked and when it was brought out of the oven.
There are many theories about what went wrong.
Most of them are misleading, misinformed or simply crap.
Mainly to protect the guilty.
07 Tuesday Oct 2014
Posted in Architecture, Best principles, Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse, Dogma, Knowledge, Offshoring, Outsourcing, Peeves, Risk, Strategy
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Behavioural Economics, Business Enablement, business intelligence, Business Management, business strategy, Challenges, Data Warehouse, Demagogism, Dogma, Financial, IT Strategy, Offshoring, Organisational Autism, Outsourcing, Requirements management, Risk
Martyn Richard Jones
I wrote a piece titled “Mugged in Data Hell.”
It told the story of a CIO who was hoodwinked, cajoled, bullied, bribed and patronised into doing the wrong things, continuously.
As my mate Bill said, “It packs big punches, and doesn’t hold back with the shit-kicking truth”.
04 Saturday Oct 2014
Posted in Business Intelligence, Dogma, Management, Peeves
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Behavioural Economics, business intelligence, Demagogism, Dogma, enterprise data warehousing, IT Strategy
Written by Martyn Richard Jones
Remastered for 2026
USING MY OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA
’m in a board room, addressing the assembled bunch of socially challenged IT management and hangers-on.
I explain, in simple language, how they can and should implement Enterprise Data Warehousing iteratively and agilely, and why they should do so rather than other approaches. I also explain how to do Business Intelligence, again, both iteratively and agilely.
They, the assembled suits, wring their hands and say, “We can’t do it any differently now, we have to deliver everything we promised by September, or we are screwed”.
04 Saturday Oct 2014
Posted in Analytics, Architecture, Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse, Knowledge, Peeves
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Behavioural Economics, Business Enablement, business intelligence, Business Management, business strategy, data integration, Demagogism, Dogma, enterprise data warehousing, Goal Setting, Information and Technology, information management, IT Strategy, MDM, Offshoring, Organisational Autism, Outsourcing, Strategy
By Martyn Richard Jones
Continued from Part 3, which can be found here -> Part 3
“The following week, the full high-powered delegation from The Taffia Connection and BogartSys flies in. It was as if an army had come to do battle with us. Uniformly slick, sullen and tacky. iPhone; laptop; knock-off Marks and Spark’s; check patterns; butt ugly ties; ‘plastique’ shoes; mismatching socks; ‘business’ rucksacks; all weather hoodies; and, worst of all, off-the-peg smirks just begging to be slapped”.
GOOD STRATEGY 