Occam's Razor

JUNE 6, 2011

1: Figure out the optimal career path for you. Having been around the block several times in several roles on all sides (practitioner, consultant, team leader, vendor, advisor) I've distilled the web analytics field into four distinct roles. Look at web analytics consulting companies. Analytics authorized consultants.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 6, 2023

CIOs along with researchers, consultants, and advisors agree that IT must change itself, how it works and how it organizes its workers, if it wants to gain the most benefits out of cloud computing. You can’t take your same skills and teams from on-prem to the cloud. Here, four IT leaders detail how they have taken action on this front.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

“Many organizations are due to revisit their cloud strategies, as their businesses have changed and vendor offerings have matured,” says Brian Alletto, technology director at digital services consultancy West Monroe. Organizations also need nontechnical skills such as cloud financial management and cloud optimization, Nathan says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 18, 2024

Recruiting activity on the rise A case in point is Thomas Licciardello, CIO and consultant at Northeast CIO’s. Technical vision: Planning, deploying, measuring, optimizing, and scaling for current and future state capacities is essential in today’s disruptive IT landscape.

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IBM Big Data Hub

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This strategy is not based on a “gut feel” or anecdotal knowledge of a few individuals, but on a well-documented, expansive set of findings, business analysis and calculated projections. This approach also provides a framework that is fully transparent and traceable to the source of every finding and decision.

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 10, 2015

In a Q&A after a keynote a couple of years ago, I was asked: " When will traditional business analysis subsume the web analytics silo? " " My reply: " All business will ultimately be digital, so, if anything, web analytics will subsume business analysis! " Business analysis.

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 3, 2008

SPOC for CMO / CEO dashboards (supreme analysis). Central Business Liaison (for a large business, focus on getting people to implement web analytics and get going). Strategic Solutions Consultant (clearly with hype like that this a role at a vendor!). Group Manager, Analytics & Optimization.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

If you are a consultant then identifying opportunities is a smidgen harder, but you can use your experience with other clients to quantify value. For help with identifying opportunities and how to do business analysis please see this post: The Beginner's Guide to Advanced Web Data Analysis. I know you know that. :).

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Jet Global

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

With fast, flexible dashboards and reports in Excel and Power BI, Jet allows you to bring all your data together in one place, enabling everyone in the organization to easily perform sophisticated business analysis from anywhere, anytime, without technical expertise. This allows you to implement re-usable business logic (e.g.,

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 31, 2024

You wouldnt hire someone who doesnt know how to write code to develop your software, so why would you expect a project manager or business analyst to drive change management? Change management is a specialized discipline, just like business analysis, user experience development, or business analysis.

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Smarten

JANUARY 6, 2025

By integrating this approach within the business intelligence and augmented analytics environment the business can eliminate the need for expert programmers and IT professionals and allow team members to perform simple analytical, reporting and visualization tasks and create and explore analytics without the assistance of consultants or IT staff.

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