Category: Article
A Bellyfull of Pie
This chart has been served up on LinkedIn recently and will no doubt have data visualisation purists choking. Read more
The Critical Few
Everyone has something they call a dashboard don’t they? As long as there’s a display full of pretty traffic lights and speedometers then the dashboard box is ticked. Or is it? Read more
Fishbones
If you’ve had any exposure to continuous improvement thinking you’ll probably be familiar with the Fishbone Diagram. Read more
The CIO : Egotist or Human?
Never mind about Digital Strategy or Skills Gaps or Cybercrime or C-level Influence. My favourite statistic in the CIO Survey from Harvey Nash & KPMG is that 77% of CIOs believe they are performing in the top 20% of their peer group. Read more
Do Our Beliefs Change Risks?
Ask a psychologist or a Bayesian statistician and they will tell you that risk is subjective. The chance of a big bad thing happening is seen through the lens of the individual, fashioned from their personal experiences and lodged in their mental models. Read more
Seeking Serendipity
Serendipity is finding something valuable by chance, a fortuitous discovery. Serendipity in business could mean tripping over the next Google by accident. Or spotting an opportunity you weren’t looking for in a corporate blind spot. Read more
Jump Plots
A Jump Plot is a neat visual way to illustrate the variability in elapsed time between events or steps in a process. Read more