And, in what I hope is my last post on foreign policy realism for the day, I think there’s a general problem with the oft-elided distinction between descriptive and prescriptive realism. Descriptive ...

Henry Mintzberg, a world-renowned professor of management studies at McGill University, once said, "Management is, above all, a practice where art, science and craft meet." What Mintzberg did not ...

Understanding your customers when there’s only a handful isn’t too difficult. But as your company grows and the number of customers expands rapidly, it can be overwhelming to keep up with the change.

Analyze in a descriptive manner. Analysis of diagnostic data. It is a predictive analytics technique. It is a form of predictive analytics. BI is likely to evolve into a significantly more automated ...

For more than a decade I have talked about only three types of analytics: descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive. This trinity of analytics variations has worked well for me, and many others use it ...

This ebook, based on the latest ZDNet / TechRepublic special feature, explores how you set up an analytics infrastructure that sees around corners and gives you options to avoid a head-on crash. Read ...

Actually, we didn’t say it. Bill Haefeli, in a way, did, in this recent cartoon, which caused one of our vigilant readers to take us to task thusly: I was surprised ...

A review of An English Language Primer Focused on Sri Lanka (Especially for Tamil Readers) by Prof. S.R.H. Hoole. It is said that the first lexicographer Samuel Johnson ushered a new orientation to ...

I was watching a short video by Babson College Prof. Thomas Davenport on the Harvard Business Review website recently and found it to be a good, simplified explanation of analytics. (Stop! Don't swipe ...