Competitive Differentiation

Consequences Schmonsequences

Listen to this article: Do you listen to the Rock Bottom Data Feed? If you don’t, you should. It’s a serious show about data that doesn’t take itself too seriously; more of a radio program than a podcast. My co-host, John Ladley, in his monologue for the recent episode “More Fuss About Tony Read more

By Mark, 8 hoursApril 22, 2026 ago

Analytics Competitive Differentiation Life

The Games of the First Data & Analytics Olympiad

Listen to this article: In accordance with tradition, I call upon the youth of the world and all of you here tonight to assemble four years from now in the French Alps, to celebrate with all of us the twenty-sixth Olympic Winter Games. See you all in 2030. Grazie mille. Read more

By Mark, 2 monthsFebruary 25, 2026 ago

Artificial Intelligence Competitive Differentiation Data Culture Data Governance Information Management

AI-Driven Data & Analytics Disruption: Data Modeling, Analytics, and Democratization

This is the second installment of a two-part series about the impact of AI on information management. The first covered Data Quality and Metadata Collection. Data Modeling Nobody at your company is more passionate about understanding the data than your Data Modelers. Unfortunately, too often their work products, while admired Read more

By Mark, 11 monthsMay 21, 2025 ago

Competitive Differentiation Data Products

Data Products: Prepared for the Next Next Big Thing

Data Products are a bigger deal for you (and your company) than AI. You’ll see what I mean shortly. When I first started writing about Data Products, I mentioned my excitement at how information management had finally become the next big thing. Even better, the business was demanding the metadata. Read more

By Mark, 1 yearFebruary 26, 2025 ago

Competitive Differentiation Data Governance

It’s the End of Data Governance as We Know It, And I Feel Fine

Happy New Year, and welcome back to the Reservoir of Ideas. OK, enough pleasantries. I’m going to spend the first part of this year exploring the following observation: Many, if not most organizations have been struggling with the same Information Management and Data Governance challenges for decades. Certainly, we’ve seen Read more

By Mark, 1 yearFebruary 5, 2025 ago

Competitive Differentiation Migration Project Management

The Hidden Costs of Migration: Part 1

Hardware and software migration projects are like crack for IT executives. Especially when the number on the new invoice is smaller than the number on the old invoice. Even better when the products can be folded into a previously negotiated enterprise agreement and made to appear free. Add to that Read more

By Mark, 2 yearsAugust 21, 2024 ago

Competitive Differentiation

Queries: Will Amazon introduce consumer shipping?

Having worked in the transportation and logistics industry for nearly 30 years, the question that friends, family, and colleagues ask most often these days is some variation of, “Is Amazon going to start competing head-to-head with other parcel services?” Now I can just refer them here for my answer. Before Read more

By Mark, 2 yearsMarch 20, 2024 ago

Competitive Differentiation Information Management Technology

Punch Cards and Green Eyeshades

Disruption is imminent. Is your company prepared? Your IT department? You? What do bank tellers, assembly line workers, retail clerks, blacksmiths, and travel agents have in common? They have all been largely displaced by technology. Application developers are next. In just a few years Generative AI will produce most of Read more

By Mark, 2 yearsFebruary 28, 2024 ago