Why are customers divided on self-checkout or cashiers? As technology advances and changes rapidly, our interactions with people, places, and things change as well. One example of this is the Self-Checkout service. I’ve always wondered why sometimes I find myself at the end of a large line at a grocery store, but next to the […]
The Importance of Employee Empowerment
Why do business owners have employees? For many business owners, especially those who started their own businesses from the ground up, the employees came gradually as the company grew. Each time a new hire occurred, the owner ideally made some calculated decisions about what they could do for themselves and what skills were best left […]
Business Glossaries and Data Dictionaries: What’s the Difference and Why Should I Care?
Both business glossaries and data dictionaries sound like something you’d find sitting on the reference shelf of a library. The terms are basically interchangeable, right? Wrong! While they share some similarities, both the purpose and the content of these two documents differ substantially, and understanding those differences is the key to ensuring that business owners […]
Best Practices for a Business Glossary
What’s a business glossary and why do businesses need one? This post is going to lay it all out and provide the necessary information to see how a business glossary can help a business succeed. It will also provide some tips and tricks to make sure that businesses are getting the most they can out […]
See It to Believe It: Why Humans Need Data Visualization
“A picture is worth a thousand words.” This cliche has its roots in psychology. It turns out that the human brain has a very difficult time understanding data without visualizations. Even very simple tasks (such as remembering the three words “dog, bike, and street”) are easier when they’re accompanied with visual representations instead of just […]
Understanding and Building Data Literacy Skills
Literacy is, broadly speaking, the ability to understand others’ ideas and communicate one’s own. When considering specific types of literacy, that same core principle remains. In this way, data literacy can be defined as the ability to understand information presented through data and to meaningfully communicate ideas using that information. In other words, a data […]
