Picture this: I read the overnight incident log and it contains a horrible murder of a vulnerable person in the community. My first thought is for his immediate family and friends. My second is to see if there was any chance of preventing it. If so, what can we learn? Most serious case reviews show that a lack of cross-agency information sharing and timely decision making directly contributes to these sad outcomes. Looking at this case as part of the serious crime review process revealed similar issues.
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Fast Track Your Data Literacy Journey
As I meet with companies through my travels, there are recurring themes to the lack of data and analytical success: a lack of data and analytical strategy tied to organizational goals, skills gaps to making smart, data-informed decisions, and workplace culture. These roadblocks must be remedied for an organization to capitalize and truly realize success with their data and analytical objectives.
Do you have what it takes to make data-informed decisions?
In a previous post, we introduced a process and methodology for making data-informed decisions. The process defines the steps that should be systematically followed. The methodology outlines what needs to be done in each step of the process, including how and why to do it.In this post, we will add in the final piece of the puzzle: the skills that are needed to allow organizations to follow the process and apply the methodology accurately and successfully.
Microsoft Brings Simply Unmatched Scale to Big Data
If you’ve been watching the data market for any length of time you can’t have failed to notice that there’s a shift underway. The line between data lakes and data warehouses is getting noticeably blurry. Not surprisingly Microsoft just announced Azure Synapse Analytics at it’s Ignite conference that is leading that charge.
“Being in the Zone” with Augmented Intelligence
According to positive psychologist Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, what I
described with this skiing experience is known as flow state, defined as an
“optimal state of consciousness where we feel our best and perform our best.”
Csíkszentmihályi, who popularized the term in his 1990 book, notes the mental
state of flow involves “Being completely involved in an activity for its own
sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought
follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz. Your whole being
is involved, and you’re using your skills to the utmost.”
The Qlik Sense September 2019 Release
With the launch of Qlik Sense Business and enhancements to Qlik Sense Enterprise in our September 2019 release QlikTech have again underlined why Qlik, the largest independent data and analytics vendor in the market, is leading the 3rd generation of BI and analytics.
Qlik (Attunity) Recognized Again in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Integration
Every time a new Gartner Magic Quadrant is published, I always have a flashback to the scene in the old Steve Martin movie “The Jerk” – when his character gets overly enthusiastic about seeing his name published in the new phonebook. As a software vendor, I think we sometimes look like this when the Gartner MQ is released, and everyone gets a little too excited.
It is Time to Embrace Data-Informed Decision Making
Organizations face many potential issues when trying to make decisions. Those issues are more frequent and have more negative impacts if the organization is not data literate and if they have not adopted a data-informed decision making process and culture. These issues include the following:
World Water Week
To bring a focal point to what’s arguably the most vital
resource to mankind – every year, the Stockholm
International Water Institute brings together governments, businesses and
research bodies to address current and future water and sustainability issues. World Water Week is a recognition that
the future of our prosperity and growth comes from working together and taking a
stance to address water crises around the globe.
The Chess Game of Data & Analytics
In my last blog post, I spoke about a series of articles I will be doing with regards to the world of data and analytics, specifically looking at the 4-levels of analytics, and data and analytical strategy. In this post, we are going to dip our toes into the world of data and analytical strategy, specifically looking at its importance and tie to the world of data literacy.