What we think

March 28, 2011

Tom Davenport on Enterprise Analytics

Tom Davenport’s Competing on Analytics was extraordinarily helpful when I was setting up supply chain, marketing, pricing, and competitive intelligence analytics teams inside Home Depot.  His […]
March 21, 2011

The Ever Elusive Key Value Item

I recently caught up with a colleague in the pricing analytics world who had moved into a leadership role at a retailer, and we discussed how […]
January 18, 2011

What to Keep Today for Tomorrow’s Analytics

Though I’ve posted on this topic recently, I’ve had requests for a more specific look at how to start and maintain data today for future analytics […]
December 11, 2010

Building a Data Foundation for Analytics

We work with many companies that are just getting started on the pathway to analytics.  Their data is usually better than they think it is, though […]
October 28, 2010

“Optimal” Pricing

We’re frequently asked to “optimize the price” of a product or set of related products, though it surprises many to know that there are actually two […]