Monthly Archives: March 2008

How reliable is your Information?

Whether you work in a managerial or operational environment, you are likely to be bombarded with information. The challenge with this is typically described as that of having access to the right facts and figures at the right time. However, I believe there is a more fundamental challenge which is sometimes overlooked: this is the challenge of interpretation. For example, you are presented with information which, you are assured by your team, is correct and …

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Wikimania

Warning: this blog post has an extremely high link density.  When I wrote this, there was no article on “Link density” on Wikipedia yet. Feel free to create that article yourself. As of version 2.0 of the Web, everyone is allowed and entitled to do just that. In 1995 (long before the term Web 2.0 was coined), Ward Cunningham made this possible with his simplest online database that could possibly work. He was recently interviewed …

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| Posted on by mnankman in Business Information Management | 2 Comments

BI and Financial Risk Management

With the current problems in the financial services markets, many of which driven by a lack of the detailed and quantified understanding of their financial risks, how many companies are looking at their own metrics and asking if they are good enough?

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Social networks, RSS, email… aaargh! Information overload!

I have the feeling that I get more and more overloaded with information from my social network memberships, subscribed RSS feeds and email accounts. Sometimes I can’t even catch up anymore and prefer to just delete the whole list of feeds instead of saving them for another time, since it just won’t get any better… There are a couple of web applications that try to find a solution for it: Yahoo! Pipes: Yahoo! offers a …

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iPodification obsolete?

Ron Tolido wrote that iPodification leads to nothing (quite literally) eventually. Until then, we will unfortunately have to carry around all our cumbersome gadgets. Sure thing, they are indeed getting smaller and smarter, usually right after you bought one, rendering your new precious obsolete (no matter how long you wait). In the impressive 6 volume epic “Reality Dysfunction” Peter F. Hamilton writes about a far and dazzling future where people have the ability to have …

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