{"id":165,"date":"2011-08-08T17:10:19","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T00:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sqldbpros.com\/?p=165"},"modified":"2011-08-08T17:12:41","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T00:12:41","slug":"the-houston-rockets-say-better-data-not-better-analysis-is-the-key","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sqldbpros.com\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/the-houston-rockets-say-better-data-not-better-analysis-is-the-key\/","title":{"rendered":"The Houston Rockets Say &#8220;Better Data, Not Better Analysis&#8221; Is The Key"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Came across this\u00a0post on the Harvard Business Review site\u00a0by the GM of the Houston Rockets.\u00a0 Thought provoking stuff.\u00a0 As the title\u00a0implies the data you have is more important than the analysts using the data.\u00a0 If you're too lazy to read it here are my cliff notes (you lazy bum):<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There are many excellent analysts with new ones graduating every year.<\/li>\n<li>If good analysts are plentiful then they cannot provide a consistent competitive advantage.<\/li>\n<li>\u201ca sustainable competitive edge requires that you have something valuable AND irreplaceable.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>A real advantage can be created from having \u201cunique data that no one else has.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cyou need strong analysts\u2026but the leverage comes not from the analysis but from having the data that others do not.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1><strong><em>Takeaway:<\/em><\/strong><\/h1>\n<h3><em>What key data could we gather (or reveal if we already have it) to give us a unique advantage?<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>The full post can be found here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.hbr.org\/cs\/2011\/08\/success_comes_from_better_data.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cSuccess Comes From Better Data, Not Better Analysis\u201d\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Came across this\u00a0post on the Harvard Business Review site\u00a0by the GM of the Houston Rockets.\u00a0 Thought provoking stuff.\u00a0 As the title\u00a0implies the data you have is more important than the analysts using the data.\u00a0 If you're too lazy to read it here are my cliff notes (you lazy bum):<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,17,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-businss-intelligence","category-data-architect","category-leadership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sqldbpros.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sqldbpros.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sqldbpros.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sqldbpros.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sqldbpros.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sqldbpros.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167,"href":"http:\/\/sqldbpros.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions\/167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sqldbpros.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sqldbpros.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sqldbpros.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}