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...]
Gut Level Data Check
May 16, 2014 by Leave a Comment
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 for Revenue Generation, not Cost Savings
August 2, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: August 2, 2013 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Finding new ways to utilize data is on everyone's agenda these days. A recent HBR blog summarized an interesting survey done by Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) of large global companies found that companies who made large investments in their big data projects generated excess … [Read more...]
Change is Possible with Reinforcing Processes
July 19, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: July 19, 2013 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. MIT Sloan School's Erik Brynjolfsson recently addressed a workshop of executives on how to increase the chances of success of big analytics initiatives. His perspective was to focus on the processes. In all the classroom discussions that surfaced around the big issues from big data — … [Read more...]
Living Life by Numbers
June 28, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: June 28, 2013 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Our world is becoming more numbers driven. We've seen the trend at work, with the emphasis on analytics and the mining of data from our data warehouses. But a recent blog by author and senior researcher at Babson Executive Education, H. James Wilson, articulates how data has begun … [Read more...]
Telling The Story with Data Visualization
May 24, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: May 24, 2013 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Inferring meaning from data is a problem usually solved by BI and analysis, but recently I read about using data visualization for some large, complex problems. Harvard Business Review associate editor Gretchen Gavett blogged about her conversation with Linda Boff, GE's executive … [Read more...]
Bottlenecks to Analytics
May 10, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: May 10, 2013 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. High on the list of important technologies for most organizations today is analytics and business intelligence. Recently Editors from MIT's Sloan Management Review and SAS's Chief Research Officer held a webinar to share results of their research study on the use of analytics. They … [Read more...]
