The athlete and the coach. The Candidate and the campaign manager. The actor and the producer. In each there is a darling who is the face of the work, and the unsung hero behind the scenes doing the incredibly heavy lifting. The unsung hero of data analytics is the data engineer that makes the work …
Data Engineer: Unsung Hero of Data Analytics – Part 2
The athlete and the coach. The Candidate and the campaign manager. The actor and the producer. In each there is a darling who is the face of the work, and the unsung hero behind the scenes doing the incredibly heavy lifting. The unsung hero of data analytics is the data engineer that makes the work …
Maximize Your Team By Making Them…Founders Of Their Own Startup?
Leading People Not ”Resources” Sometimes one of the best ways to get the most out of your team, and shake yourself out of old management patterns, is to think way outside of the box and re-imagine everything, even if you can’t change it all. That is the name of today’s game. Chances are, there is …
Data Engineer: Unsung Hero of Data Analytics
The athlete and the coach. The Candidate and the campaign manager. The actor and the producer. In each there is a darling who is the face of the work, and the unsung hero behind the scenes doing the incredibly heavy lifting. The unsung hero of data analytics is the data engineer that makes the work …
Secrets From Military Strategy: 5 Steps to Protect Your Strategic Depth
Strategic Depth is a concept from military strategy that refers to how deep your defenses are at the weakest point. It can also be seen as asking what the quickest path to an opponent’s soft inner core is. Sometimes this weakness may not be obvious to you, like how taxis probably never saw Uber coming. …
Business Performance Management: 3 Keys to Enormous Value
Business Performance Management (BPM) is a concept that is not leveraged as it should be in many organizations. There is a good write up about BPM in WikiPedia but I wanted to put down some thoughts to help evangelize and simplify the concept. There are three key ingredients to BPM: Objective needing to measured Ability …
Digital Banner Advertising – Does It Really Work?
By now, everyone knows the routine. You look at a product on your favorite website. And lo and behold, that product follows you around the web on all the sites you like to visit — like a bad headache. But does it really work? It must since retailers use it, right? Of course, the technology …