"This is good," a fellow doctoral student told me at our meeting the other day. "You are asking people for help. I should have done that." One suggestion this older student gave to me was not to be …
Excelstentialism and Systems Blogging
One thing I've grappled with frequently on this blog is whether I am an "Excel blogger."It is probably increasingly clear that I do not primarily write about Excel. This is especially true …
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What Your IT Manager Can Learn from the US Constitution
One of my favorite parts of learning is making connections between seemingly unrelated things.Here's one. Half of all enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems fail. Why? Often they do not account …
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Does Big Data Overlook Human Behavior?
I am becoming skeptical about the promises of Big Data.Surprised? So am I.The Big Data worldview tends to see information as a natural resource, like oil. It emerges from some chemical or physical …
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Don’t Try to be Original
....just try to be good. Man, I love this quote. It goes against so much we are taught. Find your niche, be unique: compete, compete, compete.This often results in impractical innovation over simple, …
Why Norbert Wiener Would Want You to Blog
One book that I keep coming back to is Tyler Cowen's Average is Over, which predicts the effects of the concentration of information technology at the hands of a few.While the information age …
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