Identifying human behavior across a society is the focus of many sociologists. As an analyst, identifying human behavior through data is my interest. Whether I am looking at sales data, cost per unit, economic forecasts, or even toilet usage charts, looking at data patterns can identify key changes in behavior.
Take a look at the chart [...]
As you all know, I am a huge fan of Starbucks, not because their coffee is great or their food is better than local places, but because Starbucks has become an American institution that defines the calendar year.
Take the holidays for instance. Starbucks makes the following changes:
A) They decorate their stores with garland, lights, ornaments, [...]
With the endless amount of spam swirling around the internet, the subject line becomes one of the most important parts of the email. Afterall, each email is competing with every other email for my attention.
There are keywords like viagra, prescriptions, free, trial, etc that are immediate turn-offs that get deleted. But every now and then, [...]
Wishing everyone a belated Thanksgiving and a marvelous Black Friday.
I hope everyone had a turkey that came out as great as the one I made:
I also hope that eveyone had a great time with family and friends. It was a great day to give thanks.
For the Monts family, it was a day of togetherness as [...]
Collaboration. It is a powerful word.
Cities are built on Collaboration.
Business rely on Collaboration.
The future of your career depends on Collaboration.
According to Malcolm Gladwell’s “Outliers”, some of the most intelligent people go untapped because of their isolation. It seems the truly successful outliers were well connected with those that helped them take the steps toward world [...]
Knowing something is half the battle. Communicating that something is the other half, but that is the subject of another post.
Knowing how your customers use your product and how they want to interact with you is a great thing. Two major steps toward becoming customer oriented.
But then you realize that what you know, might not [...]
Metrics are the individual numbers that relate to other numbers that tell a story. Often, these are the numbers that people of all levels of the company use to make decisions.
If a company has a firm grasp of their metrics, fully understand their engine, and have reporting in the right places, there can be some [...]
