Dateline: February 16, 2018 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Leadership as we know it today is soon to be a thing of the past...or is it? As technologies take over more of the decision making activity, based on data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence advances, visionaries are seeing changes in the role of leaders, too. … [Read more...]
Expensive Myths About Big Data
October 20, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: October 20, 2017 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. In a world of increasing dependence on data and the data-driven decisions that result, there are still many misconceptions that can send managers off in the wrong direction and cost an organization big bucks. Mark Wilczek, a digital strategist blogger, recently wrote a blog … [Read more...]
Realizing the Value from AI and Machine Learning Requires People
September 1, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: September 1, 2017 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. AI and machine learning are all the rage, and the promise of once again transforming the way work is done and decisions are made looms large. One aspect of this promise is the replacement of people with intelligent, decision-making AI and machine learning systems. Recently, … [Read more...]
Data Driven Decision Making: Trusting the Outcome of Algorithms
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Dateline: August 25, 2017 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. We are all technologists of one form or another. We use, understand and often create technologies that we and others use. But recently an insightful Sloan Management Review article, titled When People Don't Trust Algorithms , caught my attention. The article, University of … [Read more...]
New EU Data Protection Requirements Might Mean Big Changes
March 3, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: March 3, 2017 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Have you given any thought to the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), set to start in about 18 months? It will give regulators the ability to fine companies for non-compliance. Companies who do not prepare to govern their data appropriately do so at their … [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
December 2, 2016 by Leave a Comment
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...]
