Think back to a strategic business decision you or your team made recently.  Perhaps it was around pricing strategy to fend off a new competitor, or maybe it had to do with vendor evaluation for a new product?  Now focus on the process used to make the decision.  Who w...

Businesses have a plethora of options when choosing an analytics strategy -  from choosing  products and architectures to selecting service partners and deciding upon implementation methodologies.  While technology choices play a major role in the success of an analyti...

Data Intuition - A Differentiator for Law Practices

According to the 2015 ABA Legal Technology Survey Report, practice management availability at law firms is at its lowest point in recent years: just 45% of firms reported having it available.  Only 30% of law firms rep...

What do you mean by “data experiment”?

I was recently asked this question by a senior medical researcher who has been teaching research methods for more than two decades.  She was truly puzzled with the term, and went on to ask, “don’t all experiments need data?”  

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are the ones asked at the beginning of a project!  That is, if you're smart.  Far too many analytics projects fail due to a lack of a robust process of framing the right questions at the outset.  

In the words of Peter Drucker,  

“There is nothing quite so...

There’s a ton of hype around Big Data – it’s been there for years, and the crescendo has been steadily building.  IDC forecasts the worldwide Big Data technology and services market to reach $48.6 Billion by 2019! That's huge! 

However, before your organization commits...