Results tagged “analysis” from Knowledge Jolt with Jack

One of my colleagues in marketing pointed to the new Google Insights service that helps you analyze the search terms people are using at Google.

Two data points - financial data especially - don't give you a lot of information. And it certainly isn't a basis upon which major decisions should be made. But how frequently do you read in the newspaper or journals that first quarter sales/GDP/housing start are up/down 5% and how great/bad that is for the company/industry/country?

I have always believed that information tools should be able to do: help us see what is happening NOW in our organization, or manufacturing factility, or sales organization. Not just what did happen and what might happen. But what is happening now.