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Feb

2012

2012: The Year Analytics Means Business

"The real trend this year is not the technology. It’s about helping business people make better decisions, and actually change the way companies do business. Analytics has always been about transforming business, but the recent huge changes in analytic technology have created interesting new opportunities for business innovation."

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Analytics technology has been changing fast. On the back end, new technologies have come together to provide what Gartner calls “extreme data performance”. These include in-memory, column data stores, in-database calculations, massively parallel architectures, complex event processing, Big Data / NoSQL / Hadoop, and cloud architectures.
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- And on the front end, various technologies are coming together to provide unprecedented levels of context-based “actionable insights”, including self-service data discovery, advanced visualization including maps, mobile analytics, predictive analytics, collaborative decision-support. They help provide more action-oriented interfaces optimized for the context of the users, both inside and outside the organization.
- University researchers have pointed out that today’s management techniques are based on the limitations of information scarcity:
- with access to the finest granularities of information, management will be able to move freely from macro to micro levels and will be able to measure, plan and act accordingly. With increased resolution come more options to drill down, eliminate inefficiencies and cut costs
- New forms of data: ‘unstructured’ data such as text has long been difficult to effectively analyze and incorporate into mainstream corporate analytics. The new systems make it much easier for companies like Medtronic to access and analyze the large amount of complaints and feedback data they receive about their products, combine it with other data sources, and provide it to business users with dynamic interfaces:

Jan

2011

Is Your Enterprise Socially-Networked Or Just Your Employees?

"For any new business tool or technology, gaining a core of early adopters is both exciting and dangerous–if it only stays within an echo-chamber of early adopters. To become a business priority, it needs to grow beyond this group, become commonplace and create value for the organization. The question in the title may sound like a self-contradictory, but I have good reason to ask."

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That is an important point: work still needs to be enjoyable for people to stay engaged. But, once you grow beyond an initial group, any concept or technology becomes so common that it looses it high-shine luster. What is important is to distinguish common from productive.
. You need a basic understanding of level of dependencies and where they lie before you can get into the deeper question of how these dependencies reflect your organizational needs, processes, and strategy
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- Social network analysis may not and need not be a perfect mapping to show value. Even simple explorations can help identify basic issues such as bottlenecks and isolated groups.

Dec

2009

Are You the Bottleneck in Your Organization?

"You may be the reason your company isn't growing. You are micromanaging — and it's stifling the organization you are trying to build."

blogs.harvardbusiness.org/...ou_the_bottleneck_in_your.html

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Entrepreneurs cannot avoid getting their hands dirty with the nitty-gritty. That said, decisions and the information necessary to make them should be pushed down the ranks whenever possible
Successful entrepreneurs know that their time is best spent preparing their employees for potential difficulties and helping those same employees learn from their mistakes. Only then can future mistakes be avoided.
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- Routing every decision through yourself is unsustainable. Entrepreneurs that fail to evolve their management style from "doer" to "coach" will never have the resources to seek new opportunities!