The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Real book, real facts, desperately needs visualization August 29, 2010 Robert Glennon I was torn between a four and a five and came down on the side of five because this is a real book with real facts and real interviews and it covers a vital topic very ably. I was tempted to drop to …
Continue reading “Review: Unquenchable–America’s Water Crisis and What To Do About It”
6 Star Plus Foundation Work, August 28, 2010 Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke I read the authors’ more recent Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water yesterday and watched the also more recent Blue Gold: World Water Wars last night, all in the context of raeding 12 …
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Beyond belief, but here it is: the “official” explanation of why we are going to waste 12 billion dollars a year on contractors without a clue (vapor-ware). There is zero return on investment here for the taxpayer, only for the contractors and Congress, neither of which will be held accountable for fraud, waste, and …
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BI implementations fail because they are sold to the IT departments and not to the business users. The use case and ROI needs to be built with the business users. If that is not done, it results in: high probability of self-ware lack of ROI for the business user a pure IT project not driven …
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Single Best Book on Content, Visuals, and Price August 26, 2010 Maggie Black and Jannet King This is one of twelve books on Water that I have read or am reading, expecting to get through all of them in the near term. In comparison to the other works, this is the single best book when …
LinkedIn (free to premium) seems to be reaching a new critical mass. Below are a few groups we will be following with the intent of pointing to them individually as warranted by new discussions. Advanced Business Analytics, Data Mining and Predictive Modeling Business Intelligence Group Business Intelligence Professionals Global Staffing Leaders Location Intelligence and Geospatial …
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September 16 @ 8:30am (breakfast will be served at 8:00am) National Press Club First Amendment Lounge 529 14th Street, NW Washington, D.C. Moderated by Miller-McCune Editor-in-Chief John Mecklin, the panelists are Rolf Lundberg, Jr., U.S. Chamber of Commerce; Craig Holman, Public Citizen; and Frank Baumgarter, co-author of Lobbying and Policy Change.
