BI haiku

"Eat food, not too much, mostly vegetables." That's Michael Pollan's haiku-like dictum for eating. Let's have some faux haiku, or senryū, to describe business intelligence, defined broadly. That could take lifetimes to ponder, or at least a couple of fiscal quarters.

First, we must bow to the ancestors. The eldest and most revered is Charlie Varon, who w…