Tag: analytics 2.0

FIVE TIPS FOR SUCCESSFUL ONLINE PROJECTS

The Internet projects have a particular complexity, everything is changing constantly. In this kind of environment is very risky to base your decisions for new projects in previous ones since the possibility that the same formula works in this new very unique situation is almost null. Due to the above mentioned situation is normal that managers and analysts have to make decisions based on very unique and particular scenarios, that is why I highly recommend going beyond the conventional Analytics activities focusing on comprehend the human mind and understand the analyzed system: 1- Every new problem must be taken as that…a new problem. Never try to compare it to some previous one. 2- Defining the solution or

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HOW TO AVOID RISK WITH TWIN ANALYTICS

If you are using a page tagging web analytics solution you must be aware that your information is being (in the most of cases) saved in a third party database, ergo if anything happen with your service provider or you just want to change it you will lose your historic information. Your historic information is all what you’ve got to plan your future action, so losing it will leave you almost blind. So one way for avoiding this risk is just implementing another web analytics tool in parallel. I mean, I’m not talking about training you and your team for

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ANALYZE SCENARIOS, NOT METRICS

If you want to really understand what it is happening in your project I recommend you to analyze de scenario and not the metrics per se. An interesting way to understand it is like when you are about to buy a new alarm for your home. The expert ask you all about your house, your family, if you have a dog or other pets, etc. After that tells you how many sensors (Measuring tool implementation) will your house (online project) need. After that each sensor will be measuring all the house movements and if a deviation appears you will be informed (alert). The above mentioned example shows

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REPORTING LEVELS – LESS IS BEST

Companies are systems composed by different areas and levels. Those areas and levels perform a very important role in the organization that will (or not) allows it to achieve (or not) its objectives. Said that it is important to understand how vital is the information system flow. Even when some people may think that this post is mainly focused on big corporations, it is not. Information flows will determine how effective is the decision making process into any company no matter how bit it is. If you have a 10 persons company and the 10 are making decisions with a 30 pages report, then are all of

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A/B TESTING OR 360 VIEW? “BENEFITS” IS THE KEY

Identifying the type of information we are handling is the base for building decision-making scenarios with an acceptable level of risk. The type of information has nothing to do with the information source.  The information source is just a mere “provider” but is not important at all once the information is already in your information system. For instance a Web Analytics tool could provide Behavioral information, however some of them could provide attitudinal information and it doesn’t make any change as long as you know which kind of information you are handling in every case. If your Web Analytics tool just provide Behavioral information (all the Web Analytics tools do it)

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