Purchasing is the ugly stepchild and sleeping beauty rolled into one. If you can wake it from its spell, you will reap in treasures of information. What are we purchasing? How can we save? How much? EDS [...]

Here is good example of information density to the extreme! Professor Dr. Peter Mertens, who was the first professor for information systems in Germany in 1968, created 5 printed pages of knowledge every [...]

The world’s first seminar on gross margin flow analysis was held on October 17, 2006 in Nuremberg, Germany. Managers from Audi, Nordsee, Sanitop and wolfcraft shared their experiences with this innovative [...]

Every sports fan gladly takes up a lot of information from data-dense league standings printed in news papers. The same persons as managers fall for bright and shiny information deserts termed “dashboards” [...]

From Sten Nadolny's famous book we can learn that speed does not lead to the goal if it comes along with superficialness - and that slowness is the basic principle of close attention and thoroughness [...]

“Good management is boring” says Peter Drucker and “If you want excitement, don’t go to a good management information system.” We should reflect on this statement if we do not want to amuse [...]

Sander You are currently working on a book that supports an unusual point of view. The manuscript says, for example, that Business Intelligence is often overrated and that you wish for a bit more modesty [...]

When diagnosed with AIDS or breast cancer, most people feel as if they have been sentenced to death. Is this justified? Provided that he or she doesn’t belong to a high-risk group, a person only really [...]

When faced with the task of saying something smart about statistics in general, we often find ourselves quoting great people. There's a well known remark by Winston Churchill that is particularly popular [...]

In principle, each analysis is a comparison, because only classification in context provides useful conclusions. What can a picture of Saturn tell us if we don't have a relative idea of its size? How [...]

A picture says more than a thousand words. This charming expression is all about the magic of images. There is nothing that can cast more of a spell on us visual beings than a good picture, and nothing [...]

Warum Männer Bier und Windeln nicht zusammen kaufen und was wir dennoch aus modernen Sagen lernen können.

Why men don't buy beer and diapers at the same time, and what we can still learn from urban legends.

Der unkonventionelle Wirtschaftsprofessor Stephen D. Levitt zeigt, wie ökonomisches Rüstzeug gepaart mit unorthodoxem Denken neue Antworten auf datenanalytische Fragen geben kann. Dass seine Antworten [...]

Traffic light functions belong to the same category of dubious analogies as the dashboard. What are the alternatives to this infamous paradigm? How else can we give managers an efficient orientation guide? [...]

Die Karte der Londoner U-Bahn ("Tube Map") belegt Platz 2 im Wettbewerb um Englands beste Design-Ikone. Hinter der Concorde auf Platz 1 und vor der Spitfire auf Platz 3 liegt damit ein Beispiel für wegweisendes [...]

"Executives want their data condensed, their information all on one page." Rolf Hichert puts it in a nutshell. But people obviously like to misinterpret him, as the marketing offensive for management [...]