Business Analysis

4 Interview Qs for Business Analysts in Product or Marketing

Leslie Stevens-Huffman, 

July 31, 2014

6 min read

The duties and requirements for business analysts vary from position to position. While some BAs support an entire...

Why Retail Analytics Specialists Need New Skills

Dawn Kawamoto, 

January 22, 2014

2 min read

Following the consumer fallout of the massive security breach that engulfed Target, retail analytics specialists may...

Take Advantage of Those Consulting Gaps – Part 2

Brad Egeland, 

August 30, 2013

4 min read

I’ve been writing about what we can constructively do with the scary gaps in our consulting assignments, otherwise...

Gainsight: How to Get Hired at This Big Data Startup

Myra Thomas, 

August 26, 2013

4 min read

Big Data startup Gainsight describes itself as the first and only complete customer success management platform to...

Take Advantage of Those Consulting Gaps – Part 1

Brad Egeland, 

August 22, 2013

4 min read

“Downtime” and “non-billable hours” are two terms that can strike fear into the most confident consultant –...

Webinar: Breaking into Business Analytics

Yvonne Lee, 

August 12, 2013

1 min read

The surge in Big Data is raising demand for Business Analysts and encouraging a growing number of tech professionals to...

Tech Innovation at the Heart of Retail

Susan Hall, 

May 21, 2013

6 min read

Technology is increasingly the differentiator among brands in retail, according to research firm Gartner, which...

New Certification: HP Focuses On Embedded IT

Susan Hall, 

May 1, 2013

2 min read

Hewlett-Packard has created a certification, focused on skills needed to implement cross-department IT initiatives, as...

Demand for Data Analytics Skills Rises Sharply

Dawn Kawamoto, 

January 3, 2013

1 min read

Though hiring managers are particularly interested in tech professionals with Java/J2EE development skills, the...

When Software Engineers Whine With Reason

Mark Feffer, 

November 26, 2012

1 min read

Not long ago, Slashdot's Jeff Cogswell set out to see if two business intelligence tools would come back with the same...