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Category Archives: Business Intelligence

Why Management Fails in Information Strategy

14 Tuesday Oct 2014

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

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Big Data, Business, business intelligence, Data Marts, enterprise data warehousing, hadoop, information management, knowledge, knowledge management, Risk Management

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 →

Silly Season! Data Warehousing is Hadoop is Big Data? – Unplugged for 2026

12 Sunday Oct 2014

Posted by Martyn Jones 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

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2026 Remaster

Let’s get this baby off the ground

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.

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Just who are you to tell us? Consultant Manager as Leader and Coach – 2026 Remake

10 Friday Oct 2014

Posted by Martyn Jones in Big Data, Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse, Management

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Big Data, Business Management, Data Warehouse, Dogma

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.

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

10 Friday Oct 2014

Posted by Martyn Jones 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

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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 →

STRAIGHT TALK: Main cause of IT project failure? – Big Data Informs… 2026 Revamp

09 Thursday Oct 2014

Posted by Martyn Jones 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.

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Understanding Operational Awareness for Strategic Success – For 2026

08 Wednesday Oct 2014

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

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Analytics, Banking, Behavioural Economics, BI, Big Data, Business, business analysis, Strategy

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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 →

What triggers a review of organisational strategy? An example – Remastered for 2026

08 Wednesday Oct 2014

Posted by Martyn Jones in Ask Martyn, Best principles, Business Intelligence, Strategy, tactics

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Behavioural Economics, marketforces, operationalwareness, reactionary, straegicfit, Strategy

The way it is, and all that jazz

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.

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Understanding Data Warehousing Misconceptions – Remaster 2026

08 Wednesday Oct 2014

Posted by Martyn Jones in Big Data, Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse, Dogma, Peeves

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Behavioural Economics, Big Data, business intelligence, Data Warehouse, enterprise data warehousing

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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.

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Don’t fight the Bull, Isolate it – Deliberately avoiding the evident – Remastered for 2026

07 Tuesday Oct 2014

Posted by Martyn Jones in Banking, Best principles, Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse, Executive, Management, Methodology

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Banking, Behavioural Economics, Big Data, business intelligence, Business Management, Demagogism, Dogma

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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.

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Mugged in Data Hell – Summary – На Бо́га наде́йся, а сам не плоша́й

07 Tuesday Oct 2014

Posted by Martyn Jones 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

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I wrote a piece titled “Mugged in Data Hell.”

INTRO

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”.

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