Tag: analysis

November 13, 2018

A 2017 article in Forbes posed an intriguing question: Data rules the world, but who rules the data? The organizations that collect it, the systems that store it, or the analysts who decipher it? The fact that the question is […]

November 12, 2018

IT departments are comprised of individuals with their own unique talents, goals, and levels of emotional investment. Like a skillful conductor, the effective CIO must be a champion and mentor for these individual contributors, wedding their individual efforts and self-interest […]

November 9, 2018

There’s a common misconception about working with headhunters, recruiters, and employment agencies: while it’s true that IT recruiters can be valuable matchmakers, connecting talented technology professionals with companies in need of their skills and experience, these firms work for employers, […]

November 8, 2018

Innovation is about disrupting the comfortable for the sake of improvement. No one innovates to decrease a process or reduce the benefit. People innovate to bring life to a higher plane because improvement is a deeply held instinct. Yet innovation […]

November 6, 2018

Recently in a risk management meeting, I watched a data scientist explain to a group of executives why convolutional neural networks were the algorithm of choice to help discover fraudulent transactions. The executives—all of whom agreed that the company needed […]

November 6, 2018

The days of launching products into the marketplace and incrementally improving them every few years with modifications and improvements to keep up with changing tastes and fashions is coming to an end. Customers are becoming more sophisticated as innovative companies […]

November 1, 2018

It’s not the flippening everyone has been talking about, but Google search data reveals people are finally starting to show more interest in blockchain than cryptocurrency. Following the massive hype cycle at the end of last year, Google Trends suggests […]

October 29, 2018

As SC18 is coming up fast (Nov. 11 – 16), this is a natural time to talk about the importance of a robust HPC and AI community. That’s because it takes an expansive community to deliver the continuing advances in […]

October 25, 2018

Every company wants to be innovative. In many instances, information technology plays a crucial role in enabling innovation initiatives. Unfortunately, there’s no standard formula or framework for managing technology-driven innovation within a commercial enterprise. Every company has to establish methods […]

October 23, 2018

In Sunil Gupta’s book “Driving Digital Strategy,” he explains why incumbents are increasingly struggled as new and nimble players enter their established markets. Disruptors or challengers offer customers new, innovative business models and in many cases redefine long established market […]