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The Bogosity of “We Are a Data-Driven Culture”

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I was going to write this article, but a few days ago Ron Ashkenas at Harvard Business Press in effect wrote it for me.

He nails four issues around believing that data = truth:

Are we asking the right questions?
Does our data tell a story?
Does our data help us look ahead rather than behind?
Do we have a [...]

Unstructured Information, Data Mining, and Underwear

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No, this isn’t about doing BI while you sit at home. Rather, it’s about how hard BI really is.

Tom Davenport has a very cogent Harvard Business post today about why it’s so hard to “connect the dots” in the case of the “underwear bomber.”

There’s been a lot of expectations placed on Business Intelligence in the [...]