
Transforming Data Into Action – Part One
Everywhere you look in tech today you’ll read / hear about big data and all the many uses businesses could get from it. Businesses do certainly need to become more data driven and in fact the business model for the Information Age is something we’ve referred to as “sense and respond”. Moving from the old […]

Making Better Business Decisions Part 1
Most companies have a number of enterprise systems, whether that’s financial, human resources, payroll, warehouse management, customer service or any number of other transaction based software products. The point of those systems is to provide a way to automate and create repeatable process around the business workflows and execute transactions. For Industrial Age businesses creating […]

Data, Information, and Knowledge
Data, Information, and Knowledge I still see far too many examples of content confusing the ideas of data and information. Sometimes, it seems like a writer is simply trying to not be redundant when he or she uses data and information in the same sentence to mean the same thing. But of course they are […]

10 Ways People Find Relevant Information
Image via Wikipedia Louis Gray has a dynamite post listing his view of what the 5 ways people find relevant information are. He missed some, which I will add to my list, but this is a valuable list. In fairness, I’m not sure Louis sees this list as extending to search, he is focused on […]

Information, Knowledge, Wisdom, and Innovation
These four concepts makes humanity move forward. They’re basic requirements for every day work as well as for Big Important Decisions, hence nothing to take lightly. Indeed, if possible to grasp, sort, handle, and model efficiently we would all be…