Category: Data Mining

August 10, 2020

Enterprises are sitting on data goldmines that they can harness for unique business value and competitive advantage. But as most IT and business leaders know, becoming a data-driven organization is much easier said than done. Modern analytics tools, combined with […]

August 5, 2020

The focus group traces its origins back to the mid-1940s. Its death has been predicted many times, but inviting customers to participate in focus groups remains a common tactic to this day. Nevertheless, the value of the focus group remains […]

August 4, 2020

The world’s data has been growing exponentially for the past several years. Mobile computing, IoT machine data, social media, log files, and clickstreams generate huge volumes of data in a variety of formats. The size, complexity, and varied sources of […]

July 29, 2020

Data is at the heart of business transformation. To speed transformation, businesses need an intelligent data strategy to ensure their data is always on, always fast, automated, and on-demand. That strategy needs to enable hybrid cloud so that data is […]

July 16, 2020

Is “dealing with data” oriented toward seeking opportunities or avoiding risk in your organization? FedEx and Microsoft provide an example of the former, tying up to bring data-driven services for supply chain management to market. “Fedex Surround” was created by […]

July 9, 2020

The helicopter landed in a rush of air. I’d called emergency services just 10 minutes earlier, and the dispatcher told me that no vehicular ambulances were available in my area. Real-time traffic information helped personnel make a split-second decision to […]

July 8, 2020

Across industries, digital transformation is a near-universal goal, but data is what’s really setting the terms — and accelerating the pace — of digitalization. Organizations are collecting unprecedented amounts of data, and they need a means of efficiently storing, accessing, […]

June 23, 2020

Inspiring a sense of mission while reminding people why their work matters is one way some of history’s greatest leaders helped people through challenging times, according to Harvard Business School’s Nancy Koehn. We’re in the worst downturn since the Great […]

June 18, 2020

Companies continue to face implementation challenges as they rush to comply with data privacy regulations such as Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). This is due largely to a mismatch between their management […]

June 16, 2020

In November 2019, Dr. Ray Emerson, a 79-year-old veterinarian from Texas escaped a stroke because his smart phone alerted him to irregular heart beats much before he noticed any symptoms. There were two critical elements at play here – data […]