Why the C-Suite Needs to Know about Machine Learning

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

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

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

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...]

The New Divide: Digital “Haves” and “Have Mores”

Dateline: May 27, 2016 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Lately I've noticed that some companies have very engaging websites and others seem to have old, tired looking websites.  But all have websites.  Not that long ago, many did not have websites at all.  Then I ran across an article by a McKinsey Consulting team (James Manyika, Gary … [Read more...]

Building A ‘Touch First’ Business Model

Dateline: March 1, 2013 Welcome to our Friday WRAP - one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Our thought for today comes from an article written by Ewan Duncan, a McKinsey consultant, published in the Economist.  The article, Moving from “Mobile First” to “Touch First” documents research that McKinsey and Company has conducted on fundamental changes in the way people interact … [Read more...]