Dateline: December 5, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. This week’s idea comes from an interview with Blake Chandlee, vice president of global partnerships at Facebook, published by Sloan Management Review. Chandler described a category of data that is providing new insights into what people are thinking about when they are just … [Read more...]
Creating and Managing Analytics Capability
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Dateline: November 21, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. This week’s idea comes from a thoughtful post at Harvard Business Review about bottlenecks to progress. Brian McCarthy, Managing Director, Information & Analytics Strategy, for Accenture Analytics recently published a blog titled Beware the Analytics Bottleneck. He … [Read more...]
Top Analytics Challenges for CxOs
October 17, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: October 17, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. This week’s idea come a recent public Twitter Chat about How Analytics is Transforming the Roles of the C-Suite Execs, between Tom Davenport (@Tdav), President’s Distinguished Professor of IT and Management at Babson College, research fellow at the MIT Center for Digital … [Read more...]
Predictive Analytics Gold Rush?
September 26, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: September 26, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. This week’s idea come from a blog written my friend , Owen Williams who is the VP & Chief Technology Officer at Tokio Marine North America, Inc. His blog was titled, Predictive/Data Analytics Gold Rush. Owen is a very insightful senior technology leader and in this … [Read more...]
Mainstreaming Big Data
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Dateline: July 18, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. This week’s idea comes from Sloan Management Review's recent blog, Big Data Fatigue, by Randy Bean, CEO and managing partner of NewVantage Partners, a data and analytics executive management advisory firm. The blog suggests there are three reasons why big data is part of the … [Read more...]
Gut Level Data Check
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Dateline: May 16, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Our organizations are becoming increasingly savvy about using our data for more than just reporting on past performance. Companies using predictive analytics and even competing on analytics capabilities are more common. Recently, Sara Watson, a Fellow from the Harvard Berkman … [Read more...]
Big Data and Intermediaries
March 28, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: March 28, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Recently, professor, researcher, entrepreneur and author Dr. Tom Davenport published his newest book, Big Data at Work. He also published a blog about "Book Publishing's Big Data Future" on Harvard Business Review's blog network. In that blog, he writes, In my book I talk about … [Read more...]
