10 Friday Oct 2014
Posted in Big Data, Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse
Martyn Richard Jones
A remake for 2026
Sometimes I get asked in to support the manager of a failing project.
Most of the time I get to take over a failing project, with or without the previous manager’s involvement.
Occasionally I am called in to act as a Project Manager for clients who have brought in Systems Integrators and Management Consultants to do most of the project work.
10 Friday Oct 2014
Posted in Big Data, business, Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse
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Ask Martyn, Best principles, Big Data, business intelligence, Commercial IT, Corporate IT, Data Warehouse, IT business, IT Strategy, Pimps, Pundits
The IT business suffers a malaise, it also affects other businesses. In IT, like in other lines of business, much of what has been made is eventually sidelined and forgotten. If it was ever on the radar in the first place. Continue reading
10 Friday Oct 2014
Posted in Data Warehouse, market forces, nine competitive forces, Strategy
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Behavioural Economics, BI, Business, business analysis, Business Management, business strategy, Challenges, corporate assets, Creativity, Crisis, Data Warehouse, Dogma, Goal Setting, Information Technology, marketforces, operationalwareness, Strategy
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.
09 Thursday Oct 2014
Posted in Business Intelligence, Executive, Extract, Knowledge, Offshoring, Outsourcing
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Behavioural Economics, Best principles, Big Data, Business Enablement, business intelligence, Business Management, business strategy, Challenges, Creativity, Data Warehouse, Organisational Autism
We analysed all the big data and discovered that the biggest reason for IT project failure is people – Big Data Informs…
We had failed at Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence, Core Competence, and quite a few other things, so some bright spark decided to give Big Data a shot.
The first task was to identify the reasons for IT project failure globally.
08 Wednesday Oct 2014
Posted in Big Data, Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse, Dogma, Peeves
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Behavioural Economics, Big Data, business intelligence, Data Warehouse, enterprise data warehousing
Martyn Richard Jones
2026 Remaster
The problem with Data Warehousing is that at a superficially high level, it is very easy to explain, and it’s quite impressive that this superficially high level is all that a lot of people need in order to do data warehousing their own way.
07 Tuesday Oct 2014
Posted in Architecture, Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse, Dogma, Knowledge, Offshoring, Outsourcing, Peeves, Risk, Strategy
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Behavioural Economics, Best principles, Business Enablement, business intelligence, Business Management, business strategy, Challenges, Data Warehouse, Demagogism, Dogma, Financial, IT Strategy, Offshoring, Organisational Autism, Outsourcing, Requirements management, Risk
Martyn Richard Jones
I wrote a piece titled “Mugged in Data Hell.”
It told the story of a CIO who was hoodwinked, cajoled, bullied, bribed and patronised into doing the wrong things, continuously.
As my mate Bill said, “It packs big punches, and doesn’t hold back with the shit-kicking truth”.