Business Intelligence Lowdown: Carnival of Business Intelligence #1

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February 19, 2007

Carnival of Business Intelligence #1

Welcome to the first edition of the Carnival of Business Intelligence! It is really great to receive a good number entries to this carnival despite of the short notice given to our readers. I hope it will turn out to be a huge success in future. Without further ado, here are the posts in the order they were received.

Emmanuel Oluwatosin presents How to harness the Intelligence of Customer to solve your problems posted at Emmanuel Oluwatosin: Inspiring Excellence, Realising Ambitions. Ever heard of the word “CrowdSourcing“? Fansourcing, crowdcasting, crowdfunding, or wikinomics? Despite the jargony name, crowdsourcing is a very real and important business idea.

GameProducer.net presents 80 Percent of Companies Won't Fail Within 5 Years posted at GameProducer.Net. Yet they keep telling us otherwise.

Lucas McDonnell presents More distributed tags means more personalization. posted at Uncommon Knowledge.. A brief article on the importance of distributed tagging.

Praveen presents My Simple Trading System: Tracking Customer Profitability posted at My Simple Trading System. In these days of global competition, businesses have to continually improve their profitability and margins, reduce costs, and boost their efficiencies.

Murad Ali presents Knowing your business’s strengths and weaknesses: A simple SWOT analysis. posted at The New Business World. Business owners often wonder whether or not they are in a strong or weak position when compared to their competition. The SWOT analyzes a businesses strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats in order to help the owner/manager precisely where their business stands.

Priscilla Ortiz presents 10 Web tips for entrepreneurs posted at Priscilla Ortiz - Journal to Prosperity, Path to Freedom Inc.. These were a few sites that helped Priscilla get started with websites and blogs, it's a good start.

Vahid Chaychi presents Get Inspired by the Success Stories and Interviews posted at Internet and Search Engine Marketing. You may get disappointed while you have started a new business and it has not given any good result yet. Most people give up at this point and stop working. One of the best things that prevents you to give up, is reading the success stories and interviews of successful people in your niche. Learn how to find and read them every week.

Barbra Sundquist presents Top Five Places for Small Business Networking (HomeBusinessWiz.com) posted at HomeBusinessWiz. Networking. Does the word strike fear into your heart, or does it excite you with its possibilities?

Vincent McBurney presents Next time you want to dump testing look at the Hubble posted at Tooling around on the Information Server. This post details the sequence of events that lead to a major flaw in the Hubble Telescope image quality with lessons for BI and DW projects around testing and quality.

Charles H. Green presents Seductive Statistics posted at Trust Matters. If what you're trying to measure is intangible, your metrics may kill your results.

Jack Yoest presents Exxon and Global Warming and Capitalism posted at Reasoned Audacity. "Exxon, the sign of the double cross," quipped one leftist wag. The oil energy giant is often maligned by anarchists, non-capitalists and environmentalists. No matter what a Fortune 500 does, it will be maligned by socialists. And now the tree-spikers/tree huggers are even madder. Or are celebrating. It is sometimes hard to tell the difference.

That concludes the first edition of the Carnival of Business Intelligence. You will definitely agree that it is important for all carnival participants to do their part to support the carnival and help it grow by promoting it on their personal site. We will appreciate any such gesture on your part. Thanks!

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