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Don't Be a Data and Analytics Turkey
by Doug Laney | November 19, 2017
With Thanksgiving approaching this week in the U.S., last month in Canada, the following week in Australia, and even in the Netherlands this month, let's also give thanks for the...
Monetizing and Innovating with Information: The Art of the Possible
by Doug Laney | November 5, 2017
If yours is like most organizations, it’s buried in big data, much of it latent and languishing, incurring more cost than economic value. So how do you tip the scales...
The 9/11 "Worst Responders" and the Genesis of Infonomics
by Doug Laney | September 11, 2017
This week as we remember the tragedy of 9/11, we also recall the awesome heroism of the "first responders." But many are unaware that there were some "worst responders" as well. My...
Why a Book on Infonomics?
by Doug Laney | August 23, 2017
With its publication less than a month away, many people who have heard about, got a sneak peak of, or pre-ordered my book, Infonomics: How to Monetize, Manage, and Measure...
The Cost of Data Quality: One Night of Coding and an Energy Drink
by Doug Laney | August 2, 2017
In 1999, the $125 million Mars Climate Orbiter notoriously crashed due to the navigation team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory using the metric system in calculations while their colleagues at...
From Moneyball to Grand Slam Information-Based Business Models
by Doug Laney | July 24, 2017
In 2003, Michael Lewis published the best-seller, Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, featuring the nouveau analytics-based approach to evaluating baseball players developed by the Oakland Athletics' general manager,...
Courts Restricting You Access to Your Own Data
by Doug Laney | February 23, 2017
In a recent UK case, the England and Wales High Court court ruled that the use of a vendor's API to access and extract the customer's own data constituted a use...
Enterprise Information Management (EIM) Maturity Q&A
by Doug Laney | February 23, 2017
During my February 22, 2017 webinar The Gartner Enterprise Information Management Maturity Model (replay available), attendees asked a number of excellent questions. Not able to answer them all during the session,...
Data and Analytics Strategy Predictions Through 2021
by Doug Laney | December 19, 2016
Several colleagues and I just published our strategy predictions for data and analytics leaders: Predicts 2017: Licensing, Legal and Language Lessons for Data and Analytics Leaders. These are not predictions...
Information Maturity (Waaaaaaah!!!)
by Doug Laney | December 7, 2016
OK, the state of information maturity—how well organizations monetize, manage and measure their information assets—may not be worth throwing a tantrum over (or "spitting the dummy" for those you Down...
