Comments on: 4 mistakes that will set up an implementation for failure

By: Bijan Schlünkes

Bijan Schlünkes — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 15:00:51 +0000

Great article, like nearly all of your articles – love it But as a consultant you’re sometimes unfortunately caught in mutual dependence of business and it’s hard work to get the people on #the right# track first

By: jkunz

jkunz — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:20:16 +0000

Thanks, Matt, for the comment. I’m happy to see another much more productive type of data squirrel out there- sorry if I implicated you by name as a data hoarder, that was not my intent. So long as the squirrel is squirreling out more analysis and not just more data, I suppose the squirrel itself is not a bad thing:)

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 06:23:11 +0000

Not guilty of being a data squirrel in the sense used here: quite the contrary as we work with, and certainly encourage analysis. Still an interesting view on people hoarding data which in my industry, market research, would be completely counterproductive. There’s a vast quantity of data being gathered and I can guarantee you that it’s all used in many ways to create reports duly delivered to eagerly listening clients. Having said that (and now thinking of it), what those end clients do with the insights when presented with them, is a different story all together.

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By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 10 May 2011 23:37:21 +0000

The biggest thing that contributes to the prevalence of “bean counters” is the lack of tools for tying data together easily across data sources. Once you start focusing on gathering data (becoming a squirrel) rather than analyzing it – your eyes are off the ball.

By: Hamish

Hamish — Fri, 06 May 2011 10:33:31 +0000

Great article. I feel these pain points every day… Bean counters are the worst people to be in charge of analytics. If someone thinks an implementation is all they need, then I already know they just don’t get it…