‘Business Intelligence’ Archives

Big Data – which is good, which is not?

I saw this quote recently and think it's dead on: "'Big data' is what happens when the cost of storing information gets less than the cost of throwing it away." - George Dyson at Long Now This is SO true. Far too many of my clients are hoarding data, not because they are hoarders, but because ...

More Best Practices: Creating and Executing Exception Reports

Here's a quick (under three minutes) video from me, via TMA Resources, on creating and executing exception ...

Best Practices in Association Technology from TMA Resources

If you haven't already, be sure to check out TMA Resources' video series, Best Practices in Association Technology, featuring some of the brightest minds in the association market. (I say that because I'm one of the brilliant minds featured!) Each clip is 3-4 minutes long and ...

Are you asking your customers (or members)?

I recently received the monthly newsletter from Matrix Group, one of the many  vendors on my list of AMS vendors. In the newsletter, Matrix's CEO, Joanna Pineda, outlined how Matrix had hosted a "town hall meeting"  with their customers, in order to outline new enhancements to the product, as ...

Join me next week on David Nour’s IMPACT Webinar

I'll be a guest next week on David Nour's IMPACT Webinar Series, from noon to 1pm Eastern, on Tuesday, May 29. We'll be discussing data (natch), with a heavy emphasis on social ROI. Register here: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/574644768 More details on the IMPACT Webinar Series ...

Business Intelligence Matters

A recent article in the Wall Street Journal highlighted the desperate need businesses have for workers skilled at analyzing data. The article outlines how many companies have been partnering with major US business schools to develop curriculum and certificate programs for data analytics. The ...

Associations Now on Business Intelligence

Here's another really good article on business intelligence in the association market, from ASAE's magazine, Associations Now. I know it's good, because I'm quoted ...

The Five Prerequisites for Implementing Business Intelligence

If you're going to embark on a business intelligence initiative, you ought to have these five items in place before you ...

Business Intelligence Defined

Here's a brief podcast (about three minutes) on my definition of business ...

Dashboards Redux

Back in May of last year, I wrote the following post, which in essence said "There's a lot of talk about dashboards, but I've encountered very few myself." Well, while attending the Aptify Users Conference a few weeks ago, one of the speakers was demonstrating the dashboards available in the ...