Dateline: December 30, 2016 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Many of us think of ourselves as a change agent--someone who sees things that need to be done, and does them. But when the change is bigger than what one person can do, perhaps we are not so quick to take on the project. Why is that? Recently author Ron Donovan published … [Read more...]
Ten Technology Trends for 2017 According to Gartner
December 23, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: December 23, 2016 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. As the year draws to a close, we begin to see predictions about technologies and trends for next year. So today we share the Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2017 which are grouped into three themes: Intelligence, Digital and Mesh. The 10 trends are: … [Read more...]
Using Your Data To Help Your Customers With Their Customers
December 16, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Many companies operate within a customer relationship data chain: That is, one company has the know-how — and the incentive — to help its customers understand their own customers better. Dateline: December 16, 2016 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Companies have rich troves of data that can be used to drive better decision making … [Read more...]
The Danger of Relying on Data for Decisions
December 9, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: December 9, 2016 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Data-driven decision making is quickly becoming table stakes for every managerial decision. Using analytics to understand options and predict outcomes relies on data to fuel the analytics engine. Recently Professor Sam Ransbotham, editor of the Sloan Management Review Data and … [Read more...]
Why the C-Suite Needs to Know about Machine Learning
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Dateline: December 2, 2016 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Machine learning has become a major topic among executives as computing costs have decreased and AI and analytics capabilities have increased. The next big frontier for extracting value from company data is an automated approach where the system learns as it processes data. … [Read more...]
C-suite Involvement from Day One Makes Analytics Investments Pay Off
November 25, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: November 25, 2016 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. This is the third (and last) quote from an insightful article by McKinsey consultants Helen Mayhew, Tamim Saleh, and Simon Williams. This week, our thought provoking idea from the article, Making Data Analytics Work For you Instead of the Other Way Around, is about C-suite … [Read more...]
The Real Goal of Analytic Projects: Adoption, Adoption, Adoption
November 18, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: November 18, 2016 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Last week I shared a quote from an insightful article by McKinsey consultants Helen Mayhew, Tamim Saleh, and Simon Williams. This week, we pull another idea from the article, Making Data Analytics Work For you Instead of the Other Way Around, that suggests that adoption be … [Read more...]
Look In-between the Data Sets for New Insights
November 11, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: November 11, 2016 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Recently I ran across a very insightful article about getting value from your analytics investments, written by Helen Mayhew, Tamim Saleh, and Simon Williams, a team of McKinsey consultants. The article, Making Data Analytics Work For you Instead of the Other Way Around, … [Read more...]
Getting Ready for Self-Service Analytics
November 4, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: November 4, 2016 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Analytics and new ways to extract value are consuming an increasing amount of attention from CIOs. One of the newest 'trends' is building analytics tools that are self-service, that is business staff can use them without the intervention of data scientists. These tools have … [Read more...]
AI and the Practice of Management
October 28, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: October 28, 2016 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. According to Reid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn, the practice of management is about to change in a big way, thanks to artificial intelligence (AI). He shared his thoughts in a recent Sloan Management Review article, Using Artificial Intelligence to Set Information Free. Reid … [Read more...]
