If you are one of the none CEOs who read my blog, you are immediately hooked. “What is this magic step?! Hope it is better than those three magic beans I bought last year! … Maybe I shouldn’t have bought them refried…” If that is your chain of thought, you are exactly in the rightContinue reading “Organisational transformation – how to save big bucks in one simple step”
Author Archives: Aleš Hejmalíček
Schrödinger’s data
Did you know that before Schrödinger shoved a cat into a box he was experimenting with putting spreadsheets to file shares and creating client records in CRM systems? I know, I couldn’t believe it either. So what did he find out? In Schrödinger’s late 20s, when he worked as first Data Management Consultant, he realisedContinue reading “Schrödinger’s data”
Decisions, decisions, decisions…
To decide or not to decide. That is the question. If there is no free will, do decisions exist? After this deep start, we are going back to the topic and that is making decisions. Originally, this thought started with me getting flustered by tech articles and I was wondering what it was that rubbedContinue reading “Decisions, decisions, decisions…”
The ambiguous landscape of technology and its terminology
You hear terminology like DevOps, Data Lake, Big Data, Data Science, DataOps all around. But what are those? One thing you can do is to google them, right? I just googled “Data Lake”, so you don’t have to. You are welcome. The first two ads were for technology vendors, the third ad was from anContinue reading “The ambiguous landscape of technology and its terminology”
Applying system engineering to organisational structure, part 1 (aka possibly a relatable situation)
Two years ago I had a problem. I had an unused bank account with zero balance, where I didn’t even have access anymore, while the bank was charging me a monthly fee. Naturally, I’ve found their client services phone number, called and wanted to close the account. Originally, I thought it would be easy. TwoContinue reading “Applying system engineering to organisational structure, part 1 (aka possibly a relatable situation)”
Managing data is a pain
That is probably not news to anyone who worked with any data. If not, I’m glad you have read the title. “But we now have all the data science and big data technologies, which solve it, so what you are on about?” Do you remember some of the movies, where the heroes are trying toContinue reading “Managing data is a pain”
Getting into Data field if you are not in tech
“Data science pays boatload of $$$. I want exactly that boatload of $$$.” You’ll start searching “Data science tutorial”, “How to do data science?” and Google will throw at you Python, R, unsupervised vs supervised learning etc. If you are not already a developer, technical analyst of some kind, I would say it’s not aContinue reading “Getting into Data field if you are not in tech”
FIRE movement – the good and the bad
There is a lot of good in the whole FIRE concept, a lot of nonsense, a lot of misdirection and lies, but a lot of good stuff. I think it is because it is hard to sell the concept same as get rich quick schemes. Even though you could still be sold a “trading system”,Continue reading “FIRE movement – the good and the bad”
FIRE movement – real people, real interviews
For those who don’t know this acronym but yet still found this post. FIRE is Financial Independence, Retire Early. Yes, that’s right. You can retire when you are 30 and live your dream life of sitting on a beach in the Caribbean, being server Pina Coladas all day and just getting fatter and fatter. ForContinue reading “FIRE movement – real people, real interviews”
ROI on data analytics* – AFGAQ
There are many ways how to pet a cat. Obviously, the belly rub is at the top. Similarly, there is plenty of ways how to try to calculate ROI on your data analytics solution/function. Of course, mostly you will see ROI in phrases as “Get ROI on your data analytics.” etc. on the first pagesContinue reading “ROI on data analytics* – AFGAQ”
Just above average 