Category Archives: Strategy

Free Business Analytics Content –Thanks to Wikipedia – Part 3

08 Tue Mar 2016

Posted by in All Data, Analytics, Ask Martyn, Big Data, Big Data 7s, Big Data Analytics, business strategy, dark data, data architecture, Data governance, Data Lake, data management, data science, Data Supply Framework, Data Warehouse, Data Warehousing, Good Strategy, Inform, educate and entertain., IT strategy, Marty does, Martyn does, Martyn Jones, Martyn Richard Jones, pig data, Process, Strategy, The Amazing Big Data Challenge, The Big Data Contrarians

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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. Continue reading →

Testing the Data Warehouse

05 Sat Mar 2016

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Dusseldorf, August 2006

Data Warehousing provides possibly one of the best opportunities for IT organizations to deliver a valuable business solution in order to address a set of business needs; requirements that go well beyond the area of day to day operational support, and traditional applications (web enabled or not), and when Data Warehousing is done the right way, and for the right reasons, its payback to all of its stakeholders can be positively significant. Continue reading →

Lions led by donkeys: Intense mediocrity in uncool Britannia

02 Wed Mar 2016

Posted by in behaviour, deceit, Good Strategy, goodstrat, influencers, Inform, educate and entertain., IT strategy, leadership, Management, Process, project management, Stories, Strategy, tactics

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“Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.” — Andrew Carnegie, American Businessman and Philanthropist

Why is it the case that in order to become a successful manager in the UK that one must embrace parochial miserableness, abject meanness and byzantine nastiness?

More to the point, why has management in the UK become a politically barren, ethically bereft and dehumanising game of intense mediocrity?

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Stories From the Data Warehousing Front-Line

21 Sun Feb 2016

Posted by in Big Data, Big Data 7s, Data Warehouse, Data Warehousing, Good Strat, Good Strategy, goodstart, goodstrat, Inform, educate and entertain., Information Management, Information Supply Frameowrk, Information Supply Framework, Inmon, Martyn Jones, Martyn Richard Jones, Strategy, The Big Data Contrarians

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NB THIS IS FICTION

All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

Data warehousing, what is it like?

Although the answers are probably obvious, and to be honest, compared to the Big Data hype-circus, this is a walk in the park, I have often wondered why Data Warehousing attracts such a surfeit of lazy, socially inept and shallow-thinking chancers. Continue reading →

Real Leaders Know When To Fail

02 Sat Jan 2016

Posted by in Good Strategy, goodstrat, Inform, educate and entertain., IT strategy, leadership, Martyn Jones, Martyn Richard Jones, Strategy

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“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.” – Steve Jobs Continue reading →

Big Data: And the Hype Played On

10 Thu Dec 2015

Posted by in Ask Martyn, Big Data, Big Data Analytics, business strategy, Good Strat, Good Strategy, goodstrat, Inform, educate and entertain., IT strategy, Marty does, Martyn does, Martyn Jones, Martyn Richard Jones, Strategy, The Amazing Big Data Challenge, The Big Data Contrarians, Uncategorized

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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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Big Data Predictions for 2015: What happened next?

07 Mon Dec 2015

Posted by in Big Data, Big Data Analytics, business strategy, Good Strat, Good Strategy, goodstrat, IT strategy, Martyn Jones, Martyn Richard Jones, Strategy, The Amazing Big Data Challenge, The Big Data Contrarians, Uncategorized

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Towards the end of 2014 I gazed into the amazingly incredible crystal ball called Good Strategy, well known and admired by the readers of the Good Strat Blog, and made some predictions about Big Data for the year to come. The year of the goat. As I write now we are reaching the end of the wonderful year of 2015 – an anno quite-allrightus. So, equipped with good cheer, emboldened by the thoughts of passing the vacations with loved ones, friends and family, and heartened by my impending (albeit temporary) demobilization, I have decided to look back at my predictions of a year ago, to see how accurate or mistaken they ‘have become’, and to share those reflections with you. Continue reading →

Big Data with BIG SMILES

23 Mon Nov 2015

Posted by in Big Data, Big Data Analytics, Business Intelligence, Cambriano, Data Supply Framework, Martyn Jones, Martyn Richard Jones, Methodology, Process, SMILES, Strategy, Uncategorized

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Having got your attention I would like to introduce you to a pragmatic, real-world and business centric approach to Big Data and Big Data Analytics. When I say that this is the best approach to Big Data you are ever likely to find in the whole universe and in your entire life, I am still significantly understating the magnificent utility, timeliness and the here-and-now facets of the approach. Continue reading →

Who’s afraid of the Big Data Contrarians? Here’s 500 reasons not to be

11 Wed Nov 2015

Posted by in All Data, Big Data, Business Intelligence, Cambriano, Consider this, Good Strategy, Inform, educate and entertain., Strategy

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If you enjoy this piece or find it useful then please consider joining The Big Data Contrarians:

Join The Big Data Contrarians here: https://www.linkedin.com/grp/home?gid=8338976

Many thanks.

When I first started The Big Data Contrarians group on LinkedIn I was thinking that maybe we would get 100 members within three or four months. Well, I was mistaken. Since the 1st of July, the membership ranks of The Big Data Contrarians has risen to over 500 members. However, it’s not about the quantity it’s about the quality, and The Big Data Contrarians is ‘the nicest Big Data community that you are ever likely to encoun Continue reading →

The Amazing Big Data Challenge – 2015

11 Wed Nov 2015

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For those of you who are familiar with the world of Big Data you will also be aware of the vanguard data community known as The Big Data Contrarians (the most fabulous Big Data community online).

Launched today (23 September 2015), the Big Data Contrarian’s Challenge is destined to fast become the most prestigious, enviable and prized challenge on the entire global world-wide-web. Continue reading →