Tag: analysis
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Retrospective of 10 years of digital in the UK government – Great overview of the past ten(?) years of digital transformation in the UK government. I must say: this exact analysis probably applies private sector companies worldwide.
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The Narcissism of Small Differences in Charts
The Narcissism of Small Differences in Charts In surveys, just because something is last doesn’t mean it’s bad. It’s true the other way as well. Now, if there’s a huge difference between the first and last thing, then, sure. If 85% of people like the first choice, and 15% like the last, you’ve got a…
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Shift left only matters if the system on the right is doing a bad job
Just some catch-up on links and wastebook’ing since the speedy episode last time. Wastebook The Wine Glass, Vermeer, c. 1660. Seeing a Vermeer in person is much different than printed in a book, or even a poster. It has that luster to it. Not all of the pictures, some are fuzzy more like a Rembrandt.…
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Google is not hardcore enough, or…wait…maybe it sounds like a great place to work – a Rorschach test
*If I had more time, the Excel macro jokes would be better.* *Suggested sound track for this episode:* download share download share Embed this albumsmallmediumlarge Email: – – – Sorry, this track or album is not available. Sorry, this player does not support your browser. Your browser must either support native…
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🗂 Does terrorism work? We studied 90 groups to get the answer
> We found that only six of the 45 terror groups – that’s 13.3 percent – accomplished their broader goals; the others did not… Meanwhile, among the 45 groups that chose not to use terrorism, 26 – or 57.8 percent – achieved their objectives, while 19 did not. theconversation.com/does-terr…
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Link: High churn rate in the S&P 500
Innosight’s third study of company’s ability to maintain leadership positions estimates that by 2018, 50% of the companies on the S&P 500 will drop off, replaced by competitors and new market entrants. Staying at the top of your market-heap is getting harder and harder. This is often used to show how difficult the business world…
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Link: Potato Chips Market Share, Size, Growth and Analysis 2018-2023
“In the past 7 years, the market for good ol’ fried tater chips has grown at a snackable rate of 4%, pushing the global market for potato chips to.” Original source: Potato Chips Market Share, Size, Growth and Analysis 2018-2023
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Link: Ctrl Alt Delete: How Politics and the Media Crashed Our Democracy
Original source: Ctrl Alt Delete: How Politics and the Media Crashed Our Democracy
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Link: Is the internet good or bad for society? Americans are having a tougher time deciding.
“The percentage of people who think the internet is good for society is shrinking. Roughly 70 percent of American adults who use the internet believe it’s mostly good for society, down from 76 percent in 2014, Pew found.” And: “About 64 percent of online adults over 65 say the internet has been “a mostly good…
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Link: Security basics
“If you’re in the field of cybersecurity, a lot of what we’re preaching will sound extraordinarily basic to you. It is extraordinarily basic. We as a nation are not at a point where we have done the extraordinarily basic things.” Original source: Security basics
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Link: Avengers: Infinity War: Marvel’s Superhero Hair Is Full of Secrets
“To put it in a nutshell, the shorter the hair, the more precarious a character’s relationship with traditional femininity.” Original source: Avengers: Infinity War: Marvel’s Superhero Hair Is Full of Secrets
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Link: My Interoperable Opinions of Cloud Foundry Summit 2018
“[I]n my previous life working in IT, I’ll admit I wasn’t in the opinionated camp. I didn’t even understand it as a concept. I generally went for selecting software with the ultimate flexibility. What I didn’t realize was how often this led to analysis paralysis and decreased productivity.” I remember one of the last projects…
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Link: DellEMC/ESG survey on digital transformation
The usual “transform of die” types of points, intermixed with some analysis of cost-savings. It seems to lack y/y comparisons with the previous year. Nonetheless, a good bank of such stuff if you want to comment on organization’s desires to transform and their beliefs about the positive effect it’ll have. Original source: DellEMC/ESG survey on…
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Link: Millennials: A tale of two generations
‘The oldest Millennials are now in their mid 30s and finally “settling down,” which leads to heightened concerns about finances, kids and home buying, while the youngest Millennials are still pursuing their education.’ Chock full of survey info and demographic stuff. Original source: Millennials: A tale of two generations
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Link: The Ivory Tower Can’t Keep Ignoring Tech
“[W]e shouldn’t have to depend on journalism to do the tedious, serious work of understanding the problems with algorithms any more than we depend on it to pursue the latest questions in sociology or environmental science.” More: “There is essentially no distinct field of academic study that takes seriously the responsibility of understanding and critiquing…
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Link: Trump’s Tariff Plan Leaves Blue-Collar Winners and Losers
“The mills and smelters that supply the raw material, and that would directly benefit from the tariffs, have been shrinking for years. Today, those industries employ fewer than 200,000 people. The companies that buy steel and aluminum, to make everything from trucks to chicken coops, employ more than 6.5 million workers, according to a Heritage…
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Link: Why isn’t digital fixing the productivity puzzle?
“In addition, stagnant wages had implications for limiting demand growth. In our sector analysis, we found weak demand dampened productivity growth through other channels than investment, such as economies of scale and a subsector mix shift.” Original source: Why isn’t digital fixing the productivity puzzle?
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Link: Gartner Survey Shows Why Projects Fail
Original source: Gartner Survey Shows Why Projects Fail
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Link: The big tech backlash | Technology | The Guardian
Original source: The big tech backlash | Technology | The Guardian
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Link: The Problem With Courting Amazon
‘The question of whether, or how much, incentives actually spark a community’s economic growth is still unsettled. That’s partly because coming to any bottom-line answer is extremely difficult given all the possible variables in any scenario. “The overall conclusion is that effectiveness is there,” says Peter Fisher, a professor emeritus at the University of Iowa…
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