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The Very Group adopts a data catalog to better organize and leverage its online retail capabilities

CIO Business Intelligence

Its constituent companies later moved into high-street retail, launched new mail-order brands selling clothing on credit, and even created a consumer financial data broker, later spun off like so many of the group’s other non-core activities. It was very fragmented, and I brought it together into a hub-and-spoke model.”.

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11 Digital Marketing “Crimes Against Humanity”

Occam's Razor

" I'd postulated this rule in 2005, it is even more true in 2011. When a majority of your budget is invested in tools and data warehouses, rather than smart people to use them, you are saying you prefer to suck. Doing anything on the web without a Web Analytics Measurement Model. The 10/90 rule. People matter.

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Best Web Analytics 2.0 Tools: Quantitative, Qualitative, Life Saving!

Occam's Razor

First presented at an eMetrics summit in 2005 the 10/90 rule was borne out of my observations of why most companies fail miserably at web analytics. If after rigorous analysis you have determined that you have evolved to a stage that you need a data warehouse then you are out of luck with Yahoo! Fourth Bit Of Context.

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