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Foresight Is 20/20: Predictive Analytics And The Business Of Certainty

BY David ZaxThu Sep 29, 2011

Want to make really smart decisions for your company? It's simple as looking into the future and assessing the data--a service that a few young companies dealing in "predictive analytics" are selling.READ»

LEADERSHIP | Comment

FOCUS on Business Smarts for All

BY Seth KahanSat Jan 15, 2011

Focus provides business smarts to small and medium-sized companies, even solopreneurs... and it's free. Focus is a goldmine.READ»

LEADERSHIP | Comment

Innovative Ideas Are Hiding in Internal Data

BY Kaihan KrippendorffThu Dec 9, 2010

Great ideas often come from connecting things that have not been connected before. But as companies grow bigger and divide themselves into businesses and divisions, maintaining the cross-filtering of idea-sparking information becomes unwieldy.READ»

TWITTER | Comment

Twitter Shows Third-Party Services Its Dark Side

BY David ZaxThu Nov 18, 2010

Twitter's own analytics tool, just released in alpha-testing, is the latest move giving third-party Twitter piggy-backers a headache. In the past year, Twitter has caused similar trouble for link-shorteners, photo providers, and mobile clients.READ»

DECISION MAKING | Comment

The Problem With Intuition-Based Decision Making

BY Shawn GrahamThu Jul 15, 2010

When I started interviewing for jobs, it seemed like every company I spoke with was fixated on growth--not because it made good business sense, but because they were fixated on chasing numbers. Would local markets be able to sustain that growth? Considering the now-bankrupt Circuit City, I'm guessing not. READ»

ANALYSIS | Comment

Interview on Nightline

BY Joey FittsSun May 9, 2010

DubaiEYE Nightline interview @ http://ow.ly/1IoDt Discussed latest research on strat mgmt, next book on Stategy 2.0 + Social Strategist.READ»

ANALYSIS | Comment

Leaders Presents... Balanced Scorecard Forum 2010

BY Joey FittsMon Apr 5, 2010

Joey Fitts chairs the BSC Forum 2010 in Dubai and will join Drs Kaplan and Norton for a 2 day masterclass. Fitts presents 3 sessions on The Social Strategist - explaining how new social media capabilities enable improved strategy formulation, communication and execution. www.leaderspresents.com/bscREAD»

ANALYSIS | Comment

Video excerpt: Customer Intelligence @ Strategy Leaders Roundtable w/ Kaplan & Norton

BY Joey FittsSun Mar 14, 2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NerKNhodrao Joey Fitts discusses customer intelligence at the Strategy Leaders Roundtable with Drs. Robert Kaplan and David Norton at Palladium's Americas Summit in San Francisco in November 2009. Fitts cites cases of organizations utilizing both structured and unstructured information to gain competitive advantage. Included: the case of a leading cellular communications company who realized a savings of USD $2 Million per month, an example from the book he co-authored, Drive Business Performance: Enabling a Culture of Intelligent Execution.READ»

ANALYTIC | Comment

Video excerpt: The Analytical Paradox @ Strategy Leaders Roundtable w/ Kaplan & Norton

BY Joey FittsMon Feb 15, 2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzDglRXevJgREAD»

JOEY FITTS | Comment

Hosting "Untapped Insights" podcast radio show, announced by Extended Results today - be sure to subscribe! http://ping.fm/5mX1g

BY Joey FittsThu Dec 17, 2009

Hosting "Untapped Insights" podcast radio show, announced by Extended Results today - be sure to subscribe! http://ping.fm/5mX1gREAD»

BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE | Comment

Does your incentive system work?

BY Bruno AzizaSat Nov 21, 2009

I recently had the opportunity to talk with executives about the issues they experience with incentives implementation, and what we call in Drive Business Performance, the multiple "currencies" of performance. We ...READ»

BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE | Comment

Are you the victim of "decisional set-up"?

BY Bruno AzizaSat Nov 21, 2009

In a recent Harvard Executive course I took, our decision making class instructor said - "it's not the information you HAVE that clouds your decision making, it's the information you DO NOT have".What a brilliant way to summarize the ...READ»

BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE | Comment

Does your organization have too much data, too little of the right one or both?

BY Bruno AzizaSat Nov 21, 2009

Great WSJ article on the issue of information management and decision making. Although the article is specific to the scientific community, the same issues exist in the business world (see article @ ...READ»

BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE | Comment

Is Green the new Red?

BY Bruno AzizaSat Nov 21, 2009

In a recent conversation on KPI management, I came up with, what I hope, could be a catchy soundbite: “is your green the new red?” The idea behind the sound bite is that, while many organizations focus on the red KPIs on ...READ»

ANALYTICS | Comment

Palladium Balanced Scorecard Hall of Fame for Executing Strategy

BY Joey FittsSat Nov 14, 2009

Congrats to Millipore, who we highlighted in our book, for their induction in BSC Hall of Fame. CEO Madaus, VP Fin Couturier - well done!READ»

ANALYTICS | Comment

Palladium Group Announces Advisory Board for the Palladium Execution Premium Community

BY Joey FittsThu Oct 29, 2009

Experts Help Shape Global Strategy Management Movement Palladium Group, Inc., the global leader in helping organizations execute their strategies by making better decisions, is pleased to announce the formation of an Advisory Board for the Palladium Execution Premium Community™ (XPC). XPC, launched earlier this fall, is the premier global online membership community of strategy and performance management practitioners.READ»

JOEY FITTS | Comment

Featured in news from Microsoft today - "Authors say: Create a Culture of Performance"

BY Joey FittsFri Sep 4, 2009

Featured in news from Microsoft today - "Authors say: Create a Culture of Performance" http://ping.fm/Z9G4rREAD»