by Greg Campbell | Apr 8, 2014 | Blog
The April 7, 2014 issue of the Financial Post contains an article titled “New weapon for small businesses: data mining” by David Bradbury. Bradbury leads with, “The David and Goliath story is an old one, and for small companies, it’s still relevant.” Spieker Point...
by Greg Campbell | Mar 28, 2013 | Blog
A couple years ago, my Linux laptop wouldn’t connect to a customer’s projector before a sales pitch meeting we were in. Not being a Windows guy, I bought a Mac laptop, even though I was vehemently opposed to Apple and it’s high priced hardware at the...
by Greg Campbell | Feb 26, 2013 | Blog
We like to work with our customer’s domain experts; they are extremely important to help us understand what our customer’s data is telling us. I received a question last week: “What is a ‘domain expert’?” Let me share a couple of...
by Greg Campbell | Feb 8, 2013 | Blog
A number of years ago, Spieker Point did a fleet tracking project for a customer where we put a custom built computer into logging trucks, and measured all kinds of data on the truck: while in transit to pick up the load, the weight while loading, while sitting in the...
by Greg Campbell | Feb 1, 2013 | Blog
Last week a customer/partner was in town from Germany kicking off a new project. This person works in the manufacturing industry, consulting to his customers in the manufacturing space in Germany. Every time I’m with him, I’m always amazed by the German...
