The State of Business Intelligence, 2018

15 June 2018

The State of Business Intelligence, 2018

Forbes tech offers the insights from Dresner Advisoty Service’s 2018 Wisdom of Crowds® Business Intelligence Market Study.

  • Executive Management, Operations, and Sales are the three primary roles driving Business Intelligence (BI) adoption in 2018.

  • Dashboards, reporting, end-user self-service, advanced visualization, and data warehousing are the top five most important technologies and initiatives strategic to BI in 2018.

  • Small organizations with up to 100 employees have the highest rate of BI penetration or adoption in 2018.

  • Organizations successful with analytics and BI apps define success in business results, while unsuccessful organizations concentrate on adoption rate first.

  • 50% of vendors offer perpetual on-premises licensing in 2018, a notable decline over 2017. The number of vendors offering subscription licensing continues to grow for both on-premises and public cloud models.

  • Fewer than 15% of respondent organizations have a Chief Data Officer, and only about 10% have a Chief Analytics Officer today.

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HBR Embraces Agile At Scale

28 May 2018

HBR Embraces Agile At Scale

“Agile management begins with simple shifts in how work is done, but ends with questions such as: What is the nature of work? Which class of people should be running organizations? And how does the overall economy function? And how does society get things done? In the end, it’s also about power.

Agile thus unleashes a whole new set of challenges and possibilities for society. It implies a belief in banking, not necessarily banks. It implies a belief in accommodation, not necessarily hotels. It implies a belief in transport, not necessarily cars. It implies a belief in health, not necessarily hospitals. It implies a belief in education, not necessarily schools. As these new possibilities open up, society is changing and Agile eats the world.” By Steve Denning at Forbes.com …Read More

No, that’s not “bursting the crypto-bubble”

6 February 2018

No, that’s not “bursting the crypto-bubble”

Cryptocurrencies took a dive and articles emerged about the crypto-bubble bursting. In my opinion this is not the case. Three recent events have caused the price drop. The first is the hack at the Coincheck exchange at the end of January where $530 million worth of XEM coins have been stolen. The second event is the banning of crytocurrency purchase on credit cards. Finally, China decided to block access to international cryptocurrency exchanges by using the Chinese firewall.

A hack at a cryptocurrency exchange is of course old news. There have been at least 3 dozens of known hacks since 2011 that can be attributed to a variety of reasons. It shouldn’t be a surprise that software that is still far from reaching version 1.0 is vulnerable to all kinds of threats. Software bugs, inside jobs and a lack of understanding of the complex cryptocurrency environment that is still emerging, will keep tormenting the crypto-world. Each time, after such a hack, bitcoin has come back stronger and new crypto-currencies have emerged. What is surprising to me though, is that everyone seems to have bought (or would like to buy) cryptocurrencies. When even elderly people talk about the price of bitcoins while standing at the queue to pay for their grocery… well then you have a bubble (that will eventually burst).

Blocking access to cryptocurrencies or making it harder to buy them will cause a price drop, but in my opinion, it will eventually drive the price higher than ever before. People will still want to buy cryptocurrencies, and once they find the way to do it they will go all-in now that the price is low. What will cause the bubble to burst is when people will become aware of the risks and pitfalls associated with cryptocurrencies and don’t take radical steps like Didi (although it is an amazing publicity stunt) but this might take a while 🙂

Website re-launch

4 January 2018

Website re-launch

“And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been”
Rainer Maria Rilke

A New Year is the time for new beginnings. First thing for me this year is the launching of a new website. One created with WordPress and Divi. In order to avoid the shortcomings of my previous site, I have chosen for a theme with a substantial community behind it, a child theme setup and a staging site to test the changes before promoting them to production.

Best wishes for 2018

22 December 2017

Best wishes for 2018

Let’s hope in 2018 facts will win over prejudice. Enjoy!