I have incorporated this blog into the main forums on the CORTEX here. This is because we are now using Typepad to create richer blogs.

Take a look at Oz Analytics for an example. What you see in the CORTEX forum is an RSS feed of the blog entries.

Look out for new CORTEX bloggers in the coming weeks!

So if it all works out, this part of the CORTEX will be archived.

I read with great interest a recent post on the departure of Telstra's Senior vice-president of transformation Tom Lamming. This Accenture partner had been taken into the company by CEO Sol Trujillo as a part of the US Executive influx at the start of his time at Telstra.

Lamming started out at Telstra as a consultant where he was paid up to $15,000 a day. What do you get for that sort of money?

But first, what was he paid to do? According to reports, his stated objectives...

Recently I have just finished a long stint building an analytics capability in a large organisation. This has given me time to reflect on the experience and I'd like to share some of my conclusions.

First off, the analytic capability is very successful and is driving better decisions in many areas of the organisation. That's the easy bit to say - and I would say that anyway .

What's more interesting are the lessons that I have learned - because they will help me do...

Testing for the second time. Got no errors.

For the second time