What do you do when an unexpected external factor causes your success metrics to spike (besides popping the champagne corks)? How you adjust your data insights to this kind of “Golden Swan” can make the difference between fond memories and a bad hangover.
Evolution is a funny thing. Creatures can go along successfully day after day for generations largely unchanged, then one day something new appears and rapidly outcompetes them. The same thing happens in business. New technologies and techniques emerge that give some companies an edge over others. When they do, it becomes an “adapt or die” …
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When you’re trying to understand how to get value from your data, you might not immediately think of a restaurant kitchen, but it actually offers the perfect analogy. It also highlights exactly why so many companies are having such a hard time getting the desired return on their data investments. Sourcing your ingredients = capturing …
When we talk to people about using ALL of their data to find actionable insights, we often hear: “We’ve got it all in our data lake.” That’s when we gently break the news to them that it’s not ALL in there. The truth is that there are four different types of data in every company, …
There are four types of data in your company (and only one is in your data lake) Read More »
Everybody likes good news and nobody wants to be the messenger that gets shot. This simple truth is behind a phenomenon that clouds the vision of countless organizations, undermining capable leaders and dragging down company performance. This phenomenon is called positivity bias, and unless you are actively working to reduce it in your company, it …
May inflation came in at a staggering 8.6%, the highest in over 40 years. It is a truly rare business executive who was in a leadership position the last time inflation was this hot. In fact, most of the leaders in place today haven’t experienced this kind of price spike in their adult lives. So …
We are living in a data-driven world and we expect our teams to embrace data and use it to its fullest, but there’s a dirty little secret holding us back from this goal: Most organizations don’t know where all their data is and how it connects. If you are reading this, chances are you know …
Today we are proud to launch Glymr, a brand new kind of data insights training that will help your company get the full value out of its data. For the past decade, “data” has been the biggest buzzword out there. “Data will transform your business.” “Data will increase your sales.” “Data will cut your costs.” …
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