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This category is for all the Good Strat Blog posts that are particularly polemic and that include the debunking of over-hyped technologies or fads. Clear targets for this at the moment are Big Data, Data Science, Cloud and the Internet of Things.

  • IT’S POLITICS: Brexit Britain’s Blaggers

    IT’S POLITICS: Brexit Britain’s Blaggers

    Picture1Martyn Richard Jones

    Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany – 8th August 2017

    Is Britain becoming a scoundrel’s paradise?

    From the massively lucrative and almost risk-free student debt being sold on the cheap to a select band of chums in the private financial sector. To the scandalous misrepresentation, mendacity and downright deception of the leading guttersnipes and pimps of the Brexit campaign. Through the loud zoo of opportunistic, scabrous and malignant political animals chafing at the bit to return the UK to the dark ages of jungle law, rotten political leaders and nastier political masters, and with it, the ability of the few to effortlessly intimidate, coerce and mistreat the many.

    Legion are the examples of the erosion of values in a Britain that once aspired to be a truly decent society.

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  • Consider this: The ten key dimensions of Applied Business Knowledge and AI

    Consider this: The ten key dimensions of Applied Business Knowledge and AI

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    AI, KNOWLEDGE, INFORMATION AND DATA

    “Knowledge is the capacity to give correct answers to questions.”

    “There is no well trodden path that takes a straight line from symbols, through data to knowledge and wisdom. This is just some nonsense invented by the IT industry.” – Martyn Jones

    We may define data as being the symbolic representation of value or conversely of something which has no attached value. Data may represent, among other things, time, money, resources or worldly objects.

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  • How to turn internal user data into a massive liability – Zéro pièce

    How to turn internal user data into a massive liability – Zéro pièce

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    Martyn Richard Jones

    Laugharne 18th May 2017

    “Our discreditable secret is that we don’t know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don’t care that we don’t.”

    ― Dylan Thomas

    Let me explain

    I read a poster the other, it read “How To Turn Internal User Data Into Revenue”. It was one of those Facebook or LinkedIn hooks, you know, the ones used to get people to spend precious time on useless pursuits.

    It reminded me of a book that my mother-in-law bought for my partner, many, many moons ago. “How to make a mint whilst you snooze”, or some such wacky title.

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  • Project Planning: Sharing makes it real

    Project Planning: Sharing makes it real

    SharingMakesItReal.003Martyn Richard Jones

    Sunnyvale, CA – 7th May 2017

    Listen up Team Leaders, Test Managers, Project Managers, Programme Managers, Portfolio Managers and PMOs.

    You have just made the most perfect project plan in the entire history of project planning, and naturally you want to share your baby with the rest of the world.

    But, you can’t.

    Your perfectly designed, crafted and honed project plan is locked in a box that only you have access to.

    Because none of your target audience has Microsoft Project. (more…)

  • Getting Agile Right

    Getting Agile Right

    Image10Martyn Richard Jones

    Madrid, 16th April 2017

    I think Agile has its place, especially in the world of software application development, especially in building the kind of software that businesses frequently use in the peripheral aspects of their day-to-day operations.

    Done right, Agile can make the difference between a great success and a painful failure. Done badly, and you might suffer a worse fate than a badly applied Software Development Life Cycle such as Waterfall. Done well, and Agile will oil the wheels of the machine that gets things done.

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  • Big Dummies for Data

    Big Dummies for Data

    Martyn Jones

    Madrid 25th January 2017

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    HERE’S A THOUGHT! In the past age of big iron, the only reason for not having a proliferation of duplicated databases was the prohibitively high cost of disk storage. Now, we can let our database collections grow ‘like Topsy’. This is the Brave New World of data… apparently…

    Let’s, for one moment, be the fly-guy on the corporate wall. What are we picking up on the radar there, Enda? Oh, yes…

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  • IT’S POLITICS: BREXIT: Where’s Theresa May’s Plan B?

    IT’S POLITICS: BREXIT: Where’s Theresa May’s Plan B?

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    image12Martyn Richard Jones

    Dublin, 10th September 2016

    Theresa May, as Prime Minister of Her Majesty’s Government, has overall responsibility for organising the United Kingdom’s retreat from the European Union.

    But, Theresa May has a problem, she doesn’t appear to have a detailed plan for Brexit, at all.

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  • IT’S POLITICS: BREXIT: Theresa May’s Catch-22

    IT’S POLITICS: BREXIT: Theresa May’s Catch-22

    image7Martyn Richard Jones

    Bamberg, 8th September 2016

    Months have passed since the United Kingdom held its European Union membership referendum which resulted in a ‘win’ for the pro-leave Brexiteers. Yet the strongest signal coming out of London is that the government is stalling; playing for time. Clearly, as yet, the government hasn’t worked out in any real, concrete or detailed terms what it should be doing or where the country should be going or what it can even say to the array of stakeholders and interested parties. Which, given that Brexit is by far the biggest constitutional challenge in my lifetime, is quite problematic.

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  • STRAIGHT TALK: Amazing Uses of Big Data at ISIS

    STRAIGHT TALK: Amazing Uses of Big Data at ISIS

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    Martyn Richard Jones

    Langley, 2nd September 2016

    Few outside of the big intelligence agencies of the USA, Russia and Andorra know this, but a big part of the success of Operational Excellence at ISIS can be put down to their judicious use of Big Data and Data Science. Or, so say the experts[i].

    This will probably come as no surprise to big-gun Big Data gurus such as Bernard Marr, Rab C. Nesbitt or Alan Latchley, or indeed will it appear unusual to the more peripheral and intellectual areas of Big Data ‘guruship’ and Data Scientology, where we may find the likes of Shapiro, Kobielus and Podge and Rodge O’Leprosy.

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  • Yo! Professional networkers! BlankedOut Sucked

    Yo! Professional networkers! BlankedOut Sucked

    Martyn Richard Jones

    Hello, readers.

    Before my Aunt Dolly went to a better place she received a handwritten letter from her dear friend and long-time admirer Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling, which was to be passed on to the CEO of, what he called, an interweb professional dating site. My Aunt Dolly didn’t actually give me a precise indication of the intended recipient, this is why I now find myself at a loss. If there’s anyone out there who recognises the person or persons this letter might have been written to, then please let me know. Many thanks in advance.

    What follows is Sir Arthur’s text, as relayed to me by my sainted Aunt Dolly. (more…)

  • Too Much Information

    Too Much Information

    Martyn Richard Jones

    I have questions about data.

    Most of us who have more than a cursory knowledge of the English language have heard of the phrase ‘too much information’. We know what it means, even if we don’t always know when to apply it.

    For those who don’t know, or are unsure, the Urban Dictionary describes ‘too much information’ as “An expression of exasperation and disgust when a person is divulging personal details of his sex life, toilet habits, or anything the listener finds disgusting, uninteresting, and unwelcome.”[1]

    Sum, sum. Just because we know it, doesn’t mean we should share it or even try and remember it, never mind go about analysing the hell out of it.

    This is where Big Data comes in. (more…)

  • Can You Read? Be Honest, Now

    Can You Read? Be Honest, Now

    Martyn Richard Jones

    When you have read this, if indeed you read it all, will I have failed to convey the essence of what I am trying to get at? Will a confusion of entropy win the battle? Will the wheel of fortune turn in my favour, or will I fail to connect and communicate effectively?

    Let’s give it a spin and see what happens. (more…)

  • Free Business Analytics Content –Thanks to Wikipedia – Part 4

    Free Business Analytics Content –Thanks to Wikipedia – Part 4

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    Why buy when you can get it for free?

    Back at you! Here is the fourth fantastic delivery of an amazing, fabulous selection of free, widely available business analytics learning content, prepared… just for you. (more…)

  • Free Business Analytics Content –Thanks to Wikipedia – Part 3

    Free Business Analytics Content –Thanks to Wikipedia – Part 3

    Image4Why buy when you can get it for free?

    Back at you! Here is the third fantastic delivery of an amazing and fabulous selection of free and widely available business analytics learning content, which has been prepared… just for you. (more…)

  • How Hadoop Revolutionised IT

    How Hadoop Revolutionised IT

    This is the story of how the amazing Hadoop ecosphere revolutionised IT. If you enjoy it, then consider joining The Big Data Contrarians.

    Before the advent of Hadoop and its ecosphere, IT was a desperate wasteland of failed opportunities, archaic technology and broken promises.

    In the dark Cambrian days of bits, mercury delay lines and ferrite cores, we knew nothing about digital. The age of big iron did little to change matters, and vendors made enormous profits selling systems that nobody could use and even fewer people could understand. (more…)

  • Big Data: And the Hype Played On

    Big Data: And the Hype Played On

    MARTYN RICHARD JONES

    Despite the best efforts of Hadoop evangelists, consulting houses, and IT infrastructure and service vendors, Big Data – hailed as the greatest thing since the dawn of greatest things – is failing, and dramatically so, to produce the necessarily corresponding quantity and quality of tangible, detailed and verifiable success stories.
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  • Marty does… Big Data and the Vs… Refutured for 2026

    Marty does… Big Data and the Vs… Refutured for 2026

    Martyn Richard Jones

    2026 Remaster

    HERE WE GO WITH BIG DATA VIBES

    Clive: 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 (more…)