13 Saturday Dec 2025
Posted in governance, public, technology
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accountability, Ask Martyn, Best principles, IT Strategy, leadership, Politics, Strategy, technologist
My sister was part of a group that offered support to the striking miners of Wales, Scotland and England.
They organised a public fundraiser and invited the politician Tony Benn to speak.
Continue reading29 Tuesday Mar 2016
Posted in All Data, Big Data, Big Data 7s, Big Data Analytics, business strategy, Cambriano, Consider this, dark data, data architecture, Data governance, data science, Data Supply Framework, Data Warehouse, Data Warehousing, Good Strategy, Inform, educate and entertain., IT strategy, pig data, Strategy, The Amazing Big Data Challenge, The Big Data Contrarians
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Behavioural Economics, Big Data, Good Strategy, goodstrat, Information Technology, IT Strategy, Martyn Jones, Martyn Richard Jones, Strategy
Big Data is all pervasive, all seeing and all knowing.
Everyone is doing Big Data, and if they aren’t then they will. It’s inevitable.
Big Data will revolutionise the worlds of data, decision making and business.
Am I right, or am I right?
22 Friday May 2015
Posted in business strategy, Consider this, Good Strat, goodstrat, IT strategy, Strategy
I used to work for an affable person from Chicago. His two favourite phrases were “Let’s talk strat” and “Brought your cheque book with you?”
There are many misconceptions about strategy. But, I particularly want to address two things:
So, without more ado, let’s get the baby off the ground.
Continue reading14 Tuesday Oct 2014
Posted in Strategy
Martyn Richard Jones, son of Melbourne Jones and Mary Elizabeth Jones
A strategy is a long term plan of action designed to achieve a particular and significant goal.
As the text books state, the term strategy derives from the Greek word “στρατηγία” (translated into Latin as “strategĭa”), meaning “the art of directing military operations” or in business terms: “the set of actions planned in advance, and used to align the resources and potential of a company to achieve its goals and objectives”.
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
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”.
06 Monday Oct 2014
Posted in Architecture, Data Warehouse, Dogma, Excellence, Offshoring, Outsourcing, Strategy
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Behavioural Economics, Best principles, business strategy, Creativity, IT Strategy, Management, Organisational Autism, Strategy
Martyn Richard Jones
Remastered for 2026
Like many people around the world, I have certain expectations.
When I want some artwork done for a sales campaign, yes, I expect the people that I commission to show a lot of creativity.
When I want to read a novel, go to the theatre or simply chill out watching a movie, yes, I do expect some degree of creativity.
04 Saturday Oct 2014
Posted in Business Intelligence, Dogma, Peeves
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Behavioural Economics, business intelligence, Demagogism, Dogma, enterprise data warehousing, IT Strategy, Management
Written by Martyn Richard Jones
Remastered for 2026
USING MY OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA
’m in a board room, addressing the assembled bunch of socially challenged IT management and hangers-on.
I explain, in simple language, how they can and should implement Enterprise Data Warehousing iteratively and agilely, and why they should do so rather than other approaches. I also explain how to do Business Intelligence, again, both iteratively and agilely.
They, the assembled suits, wring their hands and say, “We can’t do it any differently now, we have to deliver everything we promised by September, or we are screwed”.
04 Saturday Oct 2014
Posted in Excellence, Knowledge, Process
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Behavioural Economics, Best principles, Business Enablement, business intelligence, Business Management, business strategy, corporate assets, IT Strategy
Martyn Richard Jones
Remaster 2026 – Galicia, Spain
Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence professionals need to think about how their vision will align with and support the corporate vision. Still, they also need to consider how the Data Warehouse vision aligns with addressing the challenges to the vision of the organisation, as well as taking into account the challenges to the vision of the Data Warehousing team, and also, challenges with any conceptual and informational structuring of the corporate vision, forces/challenges and strategy.
04 Saturday Oct 2014
Posted in Architecture, Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse, Knowledge, Peeves
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Behavioural Economics, Business Enablement, business intelligence, Business Management, business strategy, data integration, Demagogism, Dogma, enterprise data warehousing, Goal Setting, Information and Technology, information management, IT Strategy, MDM, Offshoring, Organisational Autism, Outsourcing, Strategy
By Martyn Richard Jones
Continued from Part 3, which can be found here -> Part 3
“The following week, the full high-powered delegation from The Taffia Connection and BogartSys flies in. It was as if an army had come to do battle with us. Uniformly slick, sullen and tacky. iPhone; laptop; knock-off Marks and Spark’s; check patterns; butt ugly ties; ‘plastique’ shoes; mismatching socks; ‘business’ rucksacks; all weather hoodies; and, worst of all, off-the-peg smirks just begging to be slapped”.
03 Friday Oct 2014
Posted in Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse, Process
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Behavioural Economics, BI, Big Data, Business, Business Enablement, Business Management, Demagogism, Dogma, enterprise data warehousing, Information Technology, IT Strategy, MDM, Offshoring, Organisational Autism, Outsourcing
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.
02 Thursday Oct 2014
Posted in Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse, Knowledge, Polemic
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Business, Business Management, Demagogism, Dogma, Information Technology, IT Strategy, MDM, Offshoring, Organisational Autism, Outsourcing, Requirements management
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. Continue reading
28 Sunday Sep 2014
Posted in Architecture, Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse, Excellence
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Behavioural Economics, business analysis, Business Enablement, business intelligence, enterprise data warehousing, IT Strategy, Organisational Autism
Young Einstein was awaiting the birth of his sister. His mother and father had been telling him for months to look forward to having somebody to play with. When Einstein eventually got to see his sister, he exclaimed disappointedly “But, it doesn’t have wheels!”
That happens a lot in IT. Young Einstein had a very good excuse, we don’t.
27 Saturday Sep 2014
Posted in Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse, Peeves
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BI, Business Enablement, business intelligence, Business Management, enterprise data warehousing, IT Strategy, Organisational Autism
In a city centre office block, somewhere in Scotland, the conversation between the IT Business Manager (Bill) and the Information Management Manager (Richie) is in full swing,, Bob is irate because his successfully delivered data mart has been derided as unusable rubbish by the business people it was meant to serve.
Let’s join the conversation: Continue reading
18 Thursday Sep 2014
Posted in Extract
Peace. Tranquility. Mastery.
Catriona Arbusto, an exceptionally talented management consultant, is coming to the end of her presentation. There are people in the room (actually far too many people for it to be simply quirky) staring into the comfortably-numb, banal and vacant order of their smart phones. Continue reading
17 Wednesday Sep 2014
Posted in Extract, Masterclass
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business analysis, business intelligence, Business Management, enterprise data warehousing, Goal Setting, Information Technology, IT Strategy, Organisational Autism, Requirements management, Strategy
HERE WE ARE!It’s a fantastically chic restaurant. It’s one of the best, if not the best in town. It’s Catalan or Basque, for sure. A group of twelve people sit at a round table. Silver service, starched white linen, spotless polished lead crystal glass, the works. There is even a minimalist arrangement of seasonal flowers. The owner of the exquisite restaurant walks across to the table, accompanied by one of her impeccably uniformed staff, who holds a notepad and pen in readiness; “Good afternoon, and, what would our esteemed ladies and gentlemen like today?” she asks.
Confused? If you haven’t seen this before then you should be. So just read on fellow traveller.
14 Sunday Sep 2014
Posted in Snippet
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Information and Technology, Information Technology, IT Strategy, Organisational Autism, Strategy, traditional assets
Twenty years ago, you wanted a new bathroom, so you hired a building contractor to come in and build a bathroom of your own design.
14 Sunday Sep 2014
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Behavioural Economics, Business, Business Enablement, corporate assets, Goal Setting, Information and Technology, Information Technology, IT Strategy, Organisational Autism, Strategy, traditional assets
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.
14 Sunday Sep 2014
Posted in Snippet
Martyn Rhisiart Jones
Remastered for 2026
Reality bites down hard when it wants to, and more often than not when we are least expecting it. IT is seldom given importance for valid business reasons, such as its support of operational excellence or the quality support of valuable, mission-critical business, and bureaucratic reasons are not necessarily business reasons; they are frequently at the forefront of business life for primarily negative reasons.
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