It is always difficult to predict the external factors that impact your business – especially during a difficult economic cycle. IT can be significantly easier to leverage internal factors that affect business performance, and I am encouraged to see that businesses are paying more attention to one factor supremely under their control – their own [...]
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis was perhaps the first book to bring analytics to a broad, non-technical crowd (even if they didn’t realize it). It provided an excellent way to open up a conversation about using data to drive strategic decisions without scaring those who aren’t inclined toward numbers and [...]
Baseball was the first sport to adopt analytics in a serious way (at least certain teams) followed by the NBA (again, certain teams). Now it is time for the NHL. In case you missed this interview on NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday, here is Scott Simon (with his blistering slapshot) talking numbers with Mike Smith, former [...]
