05 Sunday Oct 2014
Posted in Best principles, Creativity, Dogma, Knowledge, Management
Here are three stories that illustrate the connection between creativity and what we do in business. Jacks’ Retail Story, talks about the expansion of retail business; Jill’s Colour Book Story highlights a hugely pervasive tendency, even in these times; and, Martyn’s Summer Story argues that there is a strategic time and place for some things.
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
I’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 do Enterprise Data Warehousing iteratively and agilely, and why they should do it that way and not take 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”.
GOOD STRATEGY 