Andrew White

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One Man’s KPI is another man’s mistake waiting to happen

by Andrew White  |  August 9, 2010  |  1 Comment

Gartner introduced the idea of Pattern Based Strategy™ last year which represents a connection between three separate big ideas: pattern analysis, optempo, and performance driven culture.  Pattern analysis alone is fine – but without execution and tuning, it is nothing.  Optempo provides the mechanism to “make business value accrue from patterns” by aligning the whole [...]

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Trip Report – and some new research: Analytics Hype Cycle

by Andrew White  |  August 27, 2009  |  Comments Off

I spent a couple of days in Montreal, Canada, where I had the pleasure of a number of end-user 1-1 meetings.  The weather was bright and sunny on Tuesday, cloudy and overcast on Wednesday morning but sunny later in the afternoon.  It was quite a lot cooler than in Atlanta, though locals said that their [...]

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New Research Published – Key Issues for Analytic Applications

by Andrew White  |  May 29, 2009  |  Comments Off

Gareth Hershel just published a note (Key Issues for Analytic Applications) that warrants careful attention.  Our research on analytics has flourished of late, and finally have warranted its own Key Issues note.  Such notes highlight the main issues that we distill from our interactions with clients, topped up with our own analysis.  Analytics, those things [...]

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Unofficial Trip Report: SAP Sapphire 2009

by Andrew White  |  May 19, 2009  |  Comments Off

Unofficial Trip Report: SAP Sapphire 2009 Last week I had the good fortune of attending SAP’s annual Sapphire event in Orlando.  Other than some warm weather, and some pretty exciting thunder storms, there were lots to see and hear at the event.  As usual SAP put on a good “show” with lots of content, customer [...]

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