Grandma’s Banana Bread: Why Do We Do What We Do?
Why do you do what you do? What unexamined assumptions guide your choices and actions? --- There was a little boy watching his father make dinner. His dad cut a chunk off the turkey before…
The Power of Why
If you have ever been in a conversation with a toddler, you are probably familiar with the word “why.” While getting stuck in a rabbit hole of "why"s may be mildly infuriating after the 6th…
NiFi vs. Kafka… Or Is It?
With all of the exciting new tools to analyze and look at data, it's easy to get swept up and forget about a very important part of the process. Getting data to those tools! That…
Writing an RFP to Get the Responses You Need
Writing an RFP can be a daunting task. But the goal is beneficial and necessary: get input from a variety of third parties so you can make the best choice for implementing your requirements. What…
What Makes Insights-Driven Organizations Different?
If you can’t stand the heat Summer is finally upon us. After an eternal winter and classic spring indecisiveness, temperatures have reached what some would consider “warm” here in the midwest. And that means it’s…
Controlling Cloud Infrastructure with Serverless Compute
Controlling Cloud Infrastructure with Serverless Compute You Pay for What You Use, So Use Less Everything is moving to the cloud. More and more companies are moving both their production and development environments into the…
Flustered by Clustering?
Using Clustering for Customer Segmentation Clustering is a useful unsupervised method of machine learning, especially for identifying customer segments. Before, it was necessary to manually examine the qualities of your customers and make assumptions to…
What Employees are Really Seeking is a Mentor
Every day, active employees are entering the job market searching and pursuing new employment outside their current organization. This isn’t new, and perhaps some individuals may even say they do this regularly to stay competitive…
Business Intelligence Tools: Starting with Power BI
With the continued growth of machine learning and artificial intelligence, there is a constant need for reports, dashboards, and other ways of visualizing data. Whether you are downloading CSV files or connecting to a complex…
Marketing and IT Sittin’ in a Tree
Marketing and IT Sittin' in a Tree F-I-N-D-I-N-G [great customer insights] The two worlds of IT and marketing are changing rapidly, both experiencing technological advances at never-before-seen rates. IT is tasked with orchestrating exponentially…