by gene connolly | May 17, 2017 | Data & Analytics |
Does this describe the software procurement process at your company? “Anyone can pretty much buy any low cost title at anytime” Maybe those purchases fly under your management radar because of the low purchase cost…which is fine, until you realize, after...
by gene connolly | Oct 5, 2016 | Data & Analytics |
Tell me if you see your business in what follows: You sell some type of regularly consumed product or service. You have a lot of competition, your customers have a lot of choices who to buy from, and the switching costs for them are minimal. So you aren’t necessarily...
by gene connolly | Sep 22, 2016 | Data & Analytics |
First things first: assuming a predictive model will be a “good model”, how can you tell if it’s a good way to spend money and improve your business, given all the *other* ways you can spend money to improve your business? What if the model ends up being “less good”...
by gene connolly | Jul 27, 2016 | Data & Analytics |
“Competing on Analytics” is the first book to read if you want to learn more about getting started with analytics in your own organization. I like it because it is not focused solely on technology, but rather on the human, cultural and organizational aspects of...
by gene connolly | Jun 9, 2016 | Data & Analytics, Power BI |
If you are a small to midsized business using the free version of Google Analytics for your website, like me, to monitor basic stats about: where people are coming from how many of them what pages they are landing on and when …you may not be “overly enthused” by the...
by gene connolly | Apr 14, 2016 | Data & Analytics |
Every spring, I am always fascinated by how teams from different parts of the country get assigned to the East, West, South and MidWest regions of the Men’s NCAA Basketball Tournament. I don’t see the method in the (March) madness, honestly. So I decided...
