Steve Miller
Steve Miller is co-founder of a Chicago-based business intelligence (BI) services firm OpenBI, LLC, that specializes in delivering analytic solutions with both open source and commercial technologies. Miller has more than 30 years of experience in intelligence and analytics, having migrated from health care program evaluation, to database consulting with Oracle Corporation, to running a fast-growing BI services business at Braun Consulting. Advances in technology over that time have fundamentally enabled the use of quantitative methods for business differentiation. OpenBI, LLC, is all about helping customers attain that differentiation. You can reach him at steve.miller@openbi.com.
Recent Stories From this Author
Business Intelligence That Makes a Competitive Difference
September 23, 2008 The combination of time series measurement with experiments assures a strong design to measure the effectiveness of the OBI/EDM...
Epidemiology and BI: Help for Designing Effective Intelligence
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Relative Versus Absolute Predictions
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May 21, 2008 Though the bootstrapping techniques of the statistical world can be complicated, the basic concepts are simple.
Weak Ties and Diversification
May 8, 2008 Part I: Weak ties facilitate the exchange of information across disparate networks of dense and strong relationships
The BI Ensemble, Part 1: Weak Ties, Diversification and the Wisdom of Crowds
April 25, 2008 Weak ties thus facilitate the exchange of information across disparate networks of dense and strong relationships.
Open Source BI: The Venture Capital Perspective - Intel Capital Does the Math
April 10, 2008 This column includes the thoughts of Patrick Walsh,investment manager for Intel Capital, on open source and super-crunching.
A Propensity for BI
March 27, 2008 At a minimum, BI practitioners should understand the strengths and weaknesses of the designs they deploy to gather intelligence.
HBR on BI for Management
February 28, 2008 A review of Harvard Business Review's on Making Smarter Decisions
The Harvard Business Review on BI for Management
February 21, 2008 I recently purchased Harvard Business Review on Making Smarter Decisions and read several articles in sequence that struck me...
