15 Wed Oct 2014
Posted in awareness, project management
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Martyn Richard Jones
An advert made for a telecommunications concern in Europe urged people to ‘be more dog’.
It was rubbish and achieved nothing.
Because it said nothing.
14 Tue Oct 2014
Posted in Ask Martyn, 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”.
14 Tue Oct 2014
Posted in Architecture, awareness, Management, Strategy
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accountability, awareness, business analysis, constraints, Data Warehouse, modelling, opportunities, organisational awareness, Strategy
Written by Martyn Richard Jones
2026 Mix
Strategic fit express the degree to which an organization is matching its resources and capabilities with the opportunities in the external environment.
Matching occurs through the practice of pre-strategy analysis.
That said, it is very easy to fall into the trap of oversimplifying high-level concepts and overstating the intricacies and interdependencies of strategic-fit factors. Continue reading
14 Tue Oct 2014
Posted in Architecture, Assets, business, Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Management, Value
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Big Data, Business, business intelligence, Data Marts, enterprise data warehousing, hadoop, information management, knowledge, knowledge management, Risk Management
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. Continue reading
12 Sun Oct 2014
Posted in Architecture, Ask Martyn, Banking, Best principles, Big Data, Business Intelligence, Creativity, Data Warehouse, Dogma, Knowledge, Peeves
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Banking, Behavioural Economics, Big Data, Bill Inmon, business intelligence, data integration, Data Marts, Demagogism, Dogma, enterprise data warehousing, hadoop, Information and Technology, information management
This weekend I read a piece on the Information Management website by Steve Miller with the title of Big Data vs. the Data Warehouse. It’s an old piece, from March 2014.
It was in response to a piece by Bill Inmon titled “Big Data or Data Warehouse?” Turbocharge Your Porsche – Buy an Elephant, in which he singled out for criticism the ad campaign of a big-data and Hadoop promoter.
11 Sat Oct 2014
Posted in Big Data, BS, Data Warehouse, disinformation, information, Knowledge, wisdom
Martyn Richard Jones
Remaster for 2026
I am a sceptic. Part of the awkward squad of troublemakers.
People who ask questions and who won’t stop asking.
People who won’t take bullshit for an answer.
People who are not preprogrammed to unquestioningly follow specific paths.
But to question everything.
Such as, “What the feck’s that all about then?” Continue reading
11 Sat Oct 2014
Posted in Management, PPE, project management
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Behavioural Economics, Commercial IT, IT business, IT Strategy, Organisational Autism, project management, Risk Management
Martyn Richard Jones
Peter Drucker once stated that “There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all”.
That is one of the guiding principles in my professional role as strategist, leader and coach. (That’s why I like Oscar Puente, because he does the right things right).
I work in business and IT.
10 Fri Oct 2014
Posted in Big Data, Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse, Management
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 Fri Oct 2014
Posted in Ask Martyn, awareness, Best principles, Big Data, business, Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse
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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 Fri 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.
GOOD STRATEGY 