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Do you remember that terrible movie with Ashton Kutcher in it? Sorry, do we need to be more specific? We’re referring to this one:   The movie was based on the popular “Butterfly Effect” theory, which has become the other pop-culture digestible form of Chaos Theory from a figure NOT mauled by a T-Rex. The theory you …

Numbers don’t lie. Humans lie all the time, or at least we spin the truth (which, right there, is a lie). The often painful place that these universal facts meet in business is employee scorecards. After all, who wants a running tally of all the mistakes one’s ever made? There has been a recent backlash …

Data intelligence is a hot topic these days (isn’t that right, Mr. President?), and adoption is growing (though not nearly as fast as it should). As petabytes are streaming through nitrogen-cooled servers each day, we thought it might be fun to look back on some of the milestones of data from ancient history. Here are …

Business Intelligence is a pretty hot topic these days, but let’s face it, the phrase “business intelligence” isn’t very sexy. It’s downright boring. It just sounds dry, even though good business intelligence means profits, which is very sexy. So how can the industry make BI interesting enough so that more than just first year MBA …

Data should drive your business. We’re big proponents of this concept. What happens when data intelligence is all but ignored? Hollywood has some great examples. Here are ten fictional companies that desperately need better data & business intelligence. 10. Umbrella Corporation – Resident Evil Overall, Umbrella seems to be running well. How many companies can …

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The Y2K problem was bad enough. What about Y10K when we graduate from 4-digit years? Hopefully, 8,000 years from now, we’ll have evolved into higher beings who don’t have to worry about electronics turning on us a la the Simpsons’ Halloween special a decade ago. Meanwhile, here’s an example of why no one is safe: …