We are accumulating data at a truly alarming rate: Loyalty cards Phone bills Search queries E-mails Blog posts You name it, it has data and it is all being squirreled away. Gigabytes, Terabytes and Petabytes of it. Before long there will be Yottabytes of the damn stuff. Big Data. A new world full of opportunity […]
Do You Suffer From Too Much Information?
I have a new car to drive It is fantastic, it is the best type of car in the world, it is my wife’s company car Everybody should have one of these, I don’t need to buy petrol, check the oil, top it up with water. I don’t even have to buy insurance. (Which is […]
The Right Way to Present Information
I have a pet hate, in fact it is more than that, it is guaranteed to wind me up, start me stuttering, twitching and dribbling from the corner of my mouth. My pet hate is people dressing up piles of numbers as “analytics” and leaving me blinking at a slide, blankly wondering “what exactly is your point?” There is […]
Lessons From Sherlock Holmes About Management Information
In Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel “A Study in Scarlet” Dr. Watson is amazed to discover that Sherlock Holmes doesn’t appreciate that the Earth spins around the Sun. How could a man of such insight and intelligence be so, well, stupid? When challenged, Sherlock utters the immortal line: “What the deuce is it to me? … […]
That’s Not my Name
My name is James Lawther. I have been called James by my mother from the day I was born. The name on my birth certificate is Kenneth James Lawther. This makes me a bit odd, I use my middle name as my first name (so to speak). Most databases are structured: First Name Middle Initial […]
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