Tesco, the UK’s largest retailer, has started using weather forecasts to help determine what to stock in its stores across the UK. Traditional approaches to […]
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Inside vs. Outside
As Andy Mullholland pointed out in a recent post, all too often we manage our businesses by looking out the rear window to see where […]
Continue readingHave we really understood what Business Intelligence means?
Andy Mulholland has a nice build on my value of information bit over at Capgemini’s CTO blog, flipping the sense of the figure and showing […]
Continue readingThe value of information
We all know that data is valuable; without it it would be somewhat difficult to bill customers and stay in business. Some companies have accumulated masses of data in a data warehouse which they’ve used to drive organizational efficiencies or performance improvements. But do we ever ask ourselves when is the data most valuable?
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