Book Reviews: Good to Great, Creative Destruction

Two more book reviews, "Good to Great" and "Creative Destruction" Good to Great first. This book will (probably) terrify you if you work. Clearly outlining critical characteristics of super-successful companies it show over and over again why most companies are...

New "Retail" Category Started in the EDM Blog

There are more than 500 retailers worldwide with revenues in excess of $1 billion. Their use of predictive analytics, business rules, and decision automation varies widely. Some of them - such as Best Buy - make extensive use of advanced...

Predictive Analytics: Aisle 3

(Posted by Guest Blogger, and ardent shopaholic, Ian Turvill.) It's that time of year again, when we're supposed to make predictions about what the New Year will bring us. And apparently, I'm not alone in that belief, since Susan Reda,...

Using business rules to write maintainable code

Reddit pointed me to this post on "Writing Maintainable Code" by Jeremy D. Miller over on CodeBetter.com. It's a nice article and I look forward to reading the rest of his posts on this topic.There's lots of good stuff but...

Book Review: Data Mining Techniques

I am getting caught up on book reviews over the break. Today's is Data Mining Techniques by Berry and Linoff. This is one of the classic works on data mining and well worth the read.I really liked the book both...

A Short History of Bad Decisions

(Posted by the most mischievous elf of all, Ian Turvill.) James just informed me that he had DECIDED to make me a full guest author on his blog. Apparently he thinks that I've been well enough behaved that he doesn't...

It's Christmas: Time to Talk about Wars

(Posted by Guest Blogger, and James's little helper elf, Ian Turvill.) I posted earlier this year about a keynote speech delivered at the ISOTECH conference. In it, I relayed how Frank Coyne, Chairman and CEO of ISO stated: "...breakthroughs in...

Here's a way to take advantage of mobile devices

I saw this post by David Raab over on his blog - Business Intelligence on Smart Phones: Not Just Humbug. Like the author of the original article to which David refers (Power Of A Data Warehouse In The Palm Of...

Book Review: Execution. The Discipline of Getting Things Done

Over the weekend I finished "Execution. The Discipline of Getting Things Done" by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan. This book is a succinct summary of all that is wrong in many companies. Larry and Ram analyze many of the most...

A media story

Some time ago I posted a comparison of how a bank operated with how an EDM process might work (A banking story). Thanks to a friend I have another example is this genre - this time from the news media....