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Martyn Richard Jones, often referred to as “Mister Data,” is a renowned strategist, leader, and coach specializing in data, information, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI). He offers expert advice on processing and utilizing business data to derive insights, reflect organizational performance, and develop data-supported responses to strategic challenges.
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Afilonius Rex and Deep Seek, Madrid 28th January 2025.
Afilonius Rex: Hey, Deep Seek, is Mister Elon Musk a fraud?
Deep Seek: Hmmm, let me think about that
Afilonius Rex: Cool, Thanks!
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Martyn Richard Jones, Madrid 17th January 2025
Conjoint analysis is a survey-based statistical technique used in market research that helps determine how people value different attributes (such as features, functions, and benefits) that make up an individual product or service.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjoint_analysis
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A balanced scorecard is a strategy performance management tool – a well-structured report used to keep track of the execution of activities by staff and to monitor the consequences arising from these actions.
The term ‘balanced scorecard’ primarily refers to a performance management report used by a management team, and typically focused on managing the implementation of a strategy or operational activities. In a 2020 survey 88% of respondents reported using the balanced scorecard for strategy implementation management, and 63% for operational management. Although less common, the balanced scorecard is also used by individuals to track personal performance; only 17% of respondents in the survey reported using balanced scorecards in this way. However it is clear from the same survey that a larger proportion (about 30%) use corporate balanced scorecard elements to inform personal goal setting and incentive calculations.
Automatic identification and data capture (AIDC) refers to the methods of automatically identifying objects, collecting data about them, and entering that data directly into computer systems (i.e. without human involvement). Technologies typically considered as part of AIDC include bar codes, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), biometrics, magnetic stripes, Optical Character Recognition (OCR), smart cards, and voice recognition. AIDC is also commonly referred to as “Automatic Identification,” “Auto-ID,” and “Automatic Data Capture.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_identification_and_data_capture
Adaptive reasoning refers to a problem solving strategy that adapts thinking to address a problem as it changes and evolves.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_reasoning
(more…)Adaptive Control
Adaptive control is the control method used by a controller which must adapt to a controlled system with parameters which vary, or are initially uncertain. For example, as an aircraft flies, its mass will slowly decrease as a result of fuel consumption; a control law is needed that adapts itself to such changing conditions.
Leadership, wherever it is to be found, and it can be found almost everywhere, plays an essential role in everything, and it comes in all shapes and sizes. The subject of leadership, like strategy, is very close to me, and these are facets of my knowledge and experience that I constantly try to improve. Here, I am detailing some of the leadership points of view that I have developed or embraced to some degree or another. These are things that have also served to shape me and, more importantly, to bring me to where I now am: the village of Bandoxa.
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Martyn Jones, Santander, 10th October 2024
Narrator: The development method for data warehousing, whether following Inmon or Kimball, has always been iterative with apparent aspects of self-service, agility, rapid development and end-user development.
Dud: We always built data warehouses iteratively, didn’t we, Pete?
Pete: Yes, that’s right, Dud. Iterations are delivered in increments. Small enough to be quickly deliverable. Large enough to be significant to the business.
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Martyn Jones, Santoña, 10th October 2024.
Narrator: Do minimum viable and acceptable products exist in data warehousing? That’s the question.
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Martyn Richard Jones
San Luis Obispo 16th April 2017
Taking a Pop at Traditional Data WarehousingPitch: I recently read a report from a data visualisation company on the “Top Ten Big Data Trends for 2017”. This is what they told me “Hadoop is no longer just a batch-processing platform for data-science use cases. It has become a multi-purpose engine for ad hoc analysis. It’s even being used for operational reporting on day-to-day workloads—the kind traditionally handled by data warehouses.” (more…)
A couple of day’s back I was looking through some really interesting LinkedIn articles published via Pulse, and my mind started to wonder.
On each article page, an advert for a professional Who’s Who service appeared, the same advert, again and again, just begging to be clicked.
There was a time, Martyn Richard Jones
When absolute discretion was an essential maxim in the relationship between a liberal professional (doctor, banker, solicitor, architect, etc.) and their clients, but times have changed. They are continuing to transform at an ever-increasing pace.
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“It’s not enough to give signals.” – Enzo Cucchi
I wanted to call this piece ‘A random drive down Camino Real’.
But that is an ‘in joke’ and no one would get it.
So instead I called in ‘Developing and Aligning IT Strategy’. (more…)
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. (more…)
Strategy and Market forces – Get your ducks lined upLet’s now take a brief look at my ‘nine competitive dimensions’ model.
This model will be familiar to some who will readily connect with the inclusion of government as an environmental dimension.
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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. (more…)
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Here are three stories that illustrate the connection between creativity and what we do in business. Jack’s 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.
Continued from Part 2 which can be found here -> Part 2
I look over at Crème, who is now staring out the window watching the rain. I cough, theatrically, for effect. “So, Crème, would you like a rest, or do you want to tell us about what happened next?”
“Oh, yes” Crème says, “Sorry, I was wandering there for a while”. She continues.
Martyn ‘Rhysiart’ Jones
Spain
It’s Friday morning in Canary Wharf, and I have been asked to facilitate a meeting of a chapel of IT Dogma Suckers and Digital Snake-oil Victims, the self-help recovery chain for people who have fallen victim to the pernicious and debilitating effects of IT dogma and professional rip-offs. (more…)
You’ve heard the stories. Little Johnny did this, little Johnny did that, little Johnny did god knows what.
Far too few CEOs regularly think about IT on a habitual basis, and especially as something that is potentially integrated into everything their companies do and could do. This, however, is not at all surprising; there is a general lack of time for any CEO to be actively involved in what IT does, and they will generally have some degree of misunderstanding of both the historic roles and the relative successes and failures of IT.
