{"id":7826,"date":"2014-04-11T14:20:06","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T19:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/?p=7826"},"modified":"2020-05-26T16:37:58","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T21:37:58","slug":"weekly-recap-why-your-analytics-are-failing-platform-wars-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/weekly-recap-why-your-analytics-are-failing-platform-wars-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly recap: Why your analytics are failing, platform wars, and more&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-725\" title=\"Education\" alt=\"Education\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Education.jpg\" width=\"76\" height=\"100\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>Summary: In this week&#8217;s article roundup, we learn the surprising reason why business analytics fail, a coming trend that may make you think twice about building native mobile apps, and much more. <\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<a name=\"20140401\"><\/a><!--more--><br \/>\n<a onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Blog', 'Outbound Link', '20140411_WhyYourAnalyticsAreFailing_Analytics']); \" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.hbr.org\/2014\/04\/why-your-analytics-are-failing-you\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #1772af; font: normal bold 12pt\/1.2em Arial, Verdana, Helvetica;\">Why your analytics are failing you<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nWe have more data and better <a onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Blog', 'Inside Link', 'BI']); \" href=\"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/solutions\/businessintelligence.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: red;font-weight: bold\">analytics<\/span><\/a> than ever before, yet businesses aren\u2019t seeing the results they expected. What gives? Hint: It\u2019s something most companies have trouble changing.<\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Blog', 'Outbound Link', '20140411_WhyYourAnalyticsAreFailing_GoldStandard']); \" href=\"http:\/\/archive.wired.com\/insights\/2014\/04\/creating-gold-standard-cloud-computing\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #1772af; font: normal bold 12pt\/1.2em Arial, Verdana, Helvetica;\">Creating the gold \u2018standard\u2019 in cloud computing<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nOrganizations have quickly learned that the cloud presents a cost-effective, reliable and just a plain old smart way of delivering value. But be careful: Don\u2019t make the same \u201c<a onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Blog', 'Inside Link', 'Silos']); \" href=\"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/the-danger-of-departmental-silos-and-one-way-to-fix-it\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: red;font-weight: bold\">data silo problem<\/span><\/a>\u201d that we had in the 90s.<\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Blog', 'Outbound Link', '20140411_WhyYourAnalyticsAreFailing_SoftwareEstimates']); \" href=\"http:\/\/www.drdobbs.com\/architecture-and-design\/software-estimation-how-misperceptions-m\/240166474?_mc=MP_IW_EDT_STUB\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #1772af; font: normal bold 12pt\/1.2em Arial, Verdana, Helvetica;\">Why are software estimations almost always wrong?<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nStudy upon study cites that less than one-third of projects are delivered on time or on budget. Why? What keeps development projects from being delivered early, and under budget? Why can <a onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Blog', 'Inside Link', '2Person']); \" href=\"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/this-2-person-it-staff-might-put-larger-it-staffs-to-shame\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: red;font-weight: bold\">some companies do it<\/span><\/a>, yet others&#8211;with many more resources&#8211;struggle to do so.<\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Blog', 'Outbound Link', '20140411_WhyYourAnalyticsAreFailing_PlatformWars']); \" href=\"http:\/\/www.informationweek.com\/strategic-cio\/executive-insights-and-innovation\/platform-wars-just-starting\/d\/d-id\/1204301?\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #1772af; font: normal bold 12pt\/1.2em Arial, Verdana, Helvetica;\">Platform wars are just starting<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nAndroid and iOS have climbed to the top of the mobile OS mountain, knocking Blackberry off of the throne. But, don\u2019t get too comfortable. Over the next few years, the platform wars will really heat up. This uncertain mobile landscape is one reason I recommend businesses take the <a onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Blog', 'Inside Link', 'Mobile']); \" href=\"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/research\/whitepapers\/NativeAppsWrongChoice.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: red;font-weight: bold\">mobile web app approach<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: In this week&#8217;s article roundup, we learn the surprising reason why business analytics fail, a coming trend that may make you think twice about building native mobile apps, and much more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","slim_seo":{"title":"Weekly recap: Why your analytics are failing, platform wars, and more... - mrc&#039;s Cup of Joe Blog","description":"Summary: In this week's article roundup, we learn the surprising reason why business analytics fail, a coming trend that may make you think twice about building"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7826"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12797,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7826\/revisions\/12797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}