Transforming Data Into Action – Part Two
In part one of this series we looked at big data and transforming it into smart data, or data that is contextual, relevant and delivered to the right people / person at the right time. One of the other interesting and growing use cases in the business use of data is something called small data. […]
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 3
In part one and two of this series I spent a fair bit of time discussing the drivers for building a sense and respond, data driven business. The concept, I think, is pretty obvious when you put it into the…
Productivity
Around the world of social software, particularly enterprise social networks (ESN), the discussion of value always gets back to a discussion of worker productivity. It’s a logical point of focus of course, I mean ESNs should increase productivity through reducing time to find correct information or expert(s); by reducing push email through a pull – […]
Sense and Respond and the New Way of Selling
Okay, I started this out with a lie, this isn’t a new way to sell at all. The sense and respond approach to selling is as old as business itself. Think about an old fashion "mom and pop" business, it…
