Tag: Consider this

  • 7 Signals that someone has quit

    7 Signals that someone has quit

    You are the boss. You are the leader, coach and manager, and there are some things that you just got to learn, like it or not. One of these skills is to be able to identify when someone has quit. “How dare they?” I here you ask.

    The first time I quit a job and didn’t tell anybody was when I was in the RAF working as a fighter pilot in World War 2, and I accidentally bombed Newport in South Wales, and was given a stern talking to for my troubles. Well, I didn’t actually quit and I was never in the armed forces and I was born into the era of the Beat Generation, but that’s by the by, it’s just there for effect, to create some artificial empathy between me and those who have actually quit a job and not told anyone about it. Myself, I would never do such a thing. Although to be fair, Newport has looked like it has been freshly bombed with dark green, brown and grey shades of poster paints and self-raising flour, since forever. (more…)

  • A brief introduction to Knowledge Management

    A brief introduction to Knowledge Management

    A helpful slideset that is used to explain the purposes, positions and roles of Knowledge Management.

    http://www.slideshare.net/MartynInEurope/a-brief-introduction-to-knowledge-management

    Enjoy! Please tell me what you think about this slide deck. Many thanks for viewing. 

  • Consider this: can we avoid destructive eagerness?

    Consider this: can we avoid destructive eagerness?

    For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

    Proverbs 1:16

    Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

    Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism

    Martyn Richard Jones

    Remaster for 2026. A Coruña, Galicia, Spain.

    I’m not a psychologist, and people who read my blog will know this for sure. But I would like to examine the notion of wanting something so much that, at best, we don’t enjoy it when we obtain it, or worst still, that our eagerness means that we will never get that which we truly want. (more…)

  • Why Sperry Univac Won Over IBM in Business Strategy

    Why Sperry Univac Won Over IBM in Business Strategy

    Martyn Richard Jones

    Here’s a clue. Because of me.

    In the eighties, there was a company called Sperry Univac, which was part of the once-famous Sperry Corporation.

    At that time, a significant manufacturing concern in the industrialised Midlands of England was looking to automate and computerise operations. This meant that they would be in the market for some serious heavy iron – to use the old euphemism for mainframe computers. (more…)

  • CONSIDER THIS: Did Big Data Kill The Statistician? 2026

    CONSIDER THIS: Did Big Data Kill The Statistician? 2026

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    Blue sky data

    Hold this thought: ‘There are big lies, damn big lies and big data science’.

    Statistics is a science. Some argue that it is the oldest of sciences. It can be traced back in history to the days of Augustus Caesar, and before.

    In 1998, Lynn Billard wrote a paper that laid out the role of the Statistician and Statistics. She stated that “no science began until man mastered the concepts and arts of counting, measuring, and weighting”.[1]

    (more…)
  • Infotrends 2015: directions in Information Management – 2026 Remix

    Infotrends 2015: directions in Information Management – 2026 Remix

    Infotrends 2015 – 21 directions in Information Management

    Martyn Richard Jones

    Hold on to your seats! And, get ready for a bumpy ride of super-sized, baffling and thoroughly absurd dimensions. (more…)

  • Consider this: Ten thoughts on Data Warehousing – 2026 Mix

    Consider this: Ten thoughts on Data Warehousing – 2026 Mix

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    Dreamers

    Martyn Richard Jones

    More than 80% of advertising is ignored. More than 50% of Data Warehouse projects fail in one way or another. The information explosion has been accompanied by a massive increase in the ranks of the willfully stupid. (more…)