Manufacturing Business Technology wrote about “real world” BI acceptance as not matching predictions of think tanks and vendors. My previous post challenged them to consider how market acceptance works before doing surveys and reports of “reality”, i.e., what should be analyzed is the “early adopter” acceptance because they tend to drive acceptance by others. Here […]
Continuing with my comments on Manufacturing Business Technology’s article on BI hype, I can’t help but reveal what I think is the source of this skewering of BI vendors: an “ax to grind”. It appears that the author of the report does not like big BI vendors nor does he understand their role in introducing […]
I’ve carefully observed the recent Clinton-Obama debates and been fascinated with the differences in their communication styles. Both have enough common factors (policy stands, speaking ability, intelligence) to allow a good opportunity to analyze successful, and not so successful, ways of communicating.
Obama is unflappable, repectful, willing to admit mistakes, and redefines his arguments patiently. Clinton […]
My campaign to get the media to consider how market acceptance works (”early adopters” driving later adopters) was prompted by a Manufacturing Business Technology article on “Use of Business Intelligence Does Not Match the Hype“. Previous posts skewered some of the skewed thinking in the report. Here’s some more (skewed thinking that is):
“Similarly, people are […]
Interesting report on use of “business intelligence” or BI in Manufacturing Business Technology. Not at all surprising is the statement that software/service vendors hype is not matched by real world use:
“The manner in which companies are using business intelligence (BI) technology does not exactly match the picture painted by vendors and other industry experts.”
Apart from […]
CFO.com’s top 10 list of concerns of CFOs dealt with cost of labor and the skilled labor shortage. Interesting in that Europe and Asia list these as number one and two with “average importance scores” averaging in the 90s (see chart from article) while the US CFOs rank “skilled labor” at a lower impact level […]
CFO.com lists the “Top 10 Concerns of CFOs” world-wide (US, Europe and Asia) saying:
“With the costs of fuel and health care high on CFOs’ list of worries, many expect the once-indefatigable U.S. consumer to finally take a break.”
My personal reaction to reign in my spending late last year had to do with losing my job […]
Glad you asked. I’ve been extremely interested in the medical “problem” of late- rising costs, increased government intervention, corporate interests, doctor’s interests, insurance interests, and lack of ability of the patient to select procedures, doctors, and be cost effective. With political campaigns tied to universal health care, the issues are front and center.
To me the […]
Forbes magazine’s medicare piece on how medical costs increase due to corporate lobbying for CT scanning coverage that drives equipment sales, reveals the market’s reaction:
Congress: “…tried to rope in runaway Medicare costs by dramatically cutting imaging payments in outpatient settings…”
Private Insurers: “…Companies like CareCore Radiology, American Imaging Management and National Imaging Associates cropped up to […]
Forbes magazine’s medical industry piece “Cranking Up the Volume” comments on GE’s lobbying efforts for medicare coverage for CT scans enabling sales of CT scanning equipment:
“The party has gone on too long”.
Apparently, excessive coverage for CT scans has led to over doing and “over” covering the scans, thus increasing medical costs:
“Radiologist David Gruen used to […]
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