Thinking Analytically

A clever tip was posted on Digital Inspiration on Wednesday. Interested in reading the most popular full-text Wall Street Journal articles? Simply add this RSS feed to your newsreader and you’ll receive any article that has at least one “digg” by full subscribers. It could be interesting to track the number of articles per day and diggs per article over time to measure the acceptance of the digg concept with WSJ readers.

In this model, the paying subscribers are feeding non-paying subscribers by digging the articles. Interesting concept. On the one hand, WSJ is giving away content. On the other hand, what if there was a way for them to create a feed of other “undigged” articles to encourage non-subscribers to get the full package?

See the full tip at http://www.labnol.org/internet/tools/read-wall-street-articles-from-digg-without-subscription/1788/

Cross posted at Random Thoughts

In “Building the Analytic Organization,” Peter Graham states that the role of Chief Analytic Officer (CAO) is critical for organizations to evolve to the next level of analytic organization.   In this organization, analytics becomes a key organizational competency to the point of requiring a dedicated functional area responsible for analytics.

This intrigues me since I often find myself somewhere in between the purely technical roles and business roles regarding analytics.  Though I have some technical aptitude, I don’t have the formal training nor the experience to consider myself  an IT person.   On the other hand, though I have completed many tactical reporting and analysis projects, I feel analytics can add significant strategic advantage.   Sounds like the analytic functional area would play in that “in-between” space.

So how do the CAO and CIO roles differ?

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Competing on Analytics is the Harvard Business Review article that preceded the Book.

Excellent introduction to Davenport’s concepts.