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Can You See The Future?

1 March, 2015 by James Lawther 5 Comments

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How useful is your data? Data comes in all shapes and sizes, you could classify it in a hundred and one different ways: categorical, ordinal, Boolean, composite … Here a couple of the less technically challenging – read eye-rollingly dull – categories: Opinion or Observation Opinions are what people think, so opinions are important. Some argue […]

Filed Under: Blog, Operations Analysis Tagged With: data is not information, inputs and outputs, key performance indicators, lead and lag measures, measurement

Chasing Happiness

9 February, 2010 by James Lawther Leave a Comment

According to Aldous Huxley “Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness: it is generally the by-product of other activities.” I think he has a point. This got me thinking, how many different nouns could I substitute in the quote for “Happiness”? 1.  Fun 2.  Money 3.  Love 4.  Acceptance 5.  Success … […]

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