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Three ways to deliver intelligence data

25-Jul-10

Many IT companies and consultants define three ways to present business intelligence data.
In an ‘unstructured investigative’ environment you build a database of information that is available to specialist staff. These analysts use the data to answer one-off or infrequent business questions. Analysis techniques include visualisation, data mining and modelling. The quality of analysis often depends [...]

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Improve the ROI of eprints

19-Sep-08

In an article for The Australian (newspaper), Bernard Lane points to some examples of universities re-using their publications data: publishing their research output online for easy, open access and using the repository’s bibliographic details for mandatory reports to government.
Most Australian universities have an online repository of their research papers, articles and theses. Some have adopted [...]

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The committee’s first meeting

21-Feb-08

For a successful project, you need an effective steering committee and an influential sponsor who cares about what you’re trying to achieve in the project. Ideally the sponsor should chair the committee.
We had our first steering committee meeting today.
The sponsor/chair opened the meeting.
He tabled a single printed page, an excerpt from a book: Yes Minister’s [...]

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