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@Jon_Ayre questions whether an organization’s being data-driven drives the right behaviours. He identifies a number of pitfalls.It’s all too easy to interpret data through a biased viewpointData is used to justify a decision that has already been madeD…
One of the factors driving Netflix success is undoubtedly its recommendation engine, based on an algorithm called CineMatch. I discussed this in my earlier post Rhyme or Reason (June 2017). But that’s not the only way Netflix uses data. According to se…
#FollowingTheScience As politicians around the world struggle to contain and master the Covid-19 pandemic, the complex role of science in guiding decision and policy has been brought into view. Not only the potential tension between science and policy,…
Cybernetics helps us understand dynamic systems that are driven by a particular type of data. Here are some examples:Many economists see markets as essentially driven by price data. On the Internet (especially social media) we can see systems that are …
The concepts of net-centricity, information superiority and power to the edge emerged out of the US defence community about twenty years ago, thanks to some thought leadership from the Command and Control Research Program (CCRP). One of the routes of t…
This is one of a series of posts looking at the four key dimensions of Data and Information that must be addressed in a data strategy – reach, richness, agility and assurance.Data strategy nowadays is dominated by the concept of big data, whatever that…
Last week, someone asked me how I go about producing a data model. I found out afterwards that my answer was considered too brief. So here’s a longer version of my answer.The first thing to consider is the purpose of the modelling. Sometimes there is a…
In an earlier post Towards the Data-Driven Business, I talked about the various roles that data and intelligence can play in the business. But where do you start? In this post, I shall talk about the approach that I have developed and used in a number …
If we want to build a data-driven business, we need to appreciate the various roles that data and intelligence can play in the business – whether improving a single business service, capability or process, or improving the business as a whole. The exam…