Steve Bennett

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...

I recently came across an interesting online video entitled 'What Is Business Intelligence?' An interesting question and it does a very good job of introducing the history of BI.

The video was made by a guy in BI Solutions at Microsoft.

I suspect that it is designed to be a viral advert setting us all up for Microsoft's new 'BI 3.0' offering. Now that doesn't make what's in the video wrong per se. So take a look at the video and see if we can agree that the characteristics...

True to my last blog, I talk about data quality at ING Direct in today's Australian newspaper.

While the article is not what I imagined it would be, it does cover some of the practical benefits of improving data quality.

For anyone interested, I am talking about data quality in much greater detail at the coming DQ Asia Pacific conference later this month.