Conversational analytics

When you begin your career your most important skills are your hard, technical skills; the finance and accounting, the statistics and economics, the physics and chemistry, the engineering and calculus.  But as I tell my business school mentees, as your career progresses, the emphasis changes such that much sooner than [...]

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Encountering analytics

In his recent article for the McKinsey Quarterly, entitled “The Second Economy”, W. Brian Arthur of the Santa Fe Institute states, “In any deep transformation, industries do not so much adopt the new body of technology as encounter it, and as they do they create new ways to profit from [...]

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“Hope” is not Risk Management

From the investor’s perspective, there are only two things that matter: risk, and return. Management generally places its emphasis and resources on only the latter half of that equation, the “return” part. Of all the things in the business arena that get managed: cash, profits, costs, sales, people, and projects; [...]

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