At the heart of the UK’s 2017 Government Transformation Strategy lies the ambition to “put more power in the hands of citizens and being more responsive to their needs.” Digital technologies, such as AI, can rapidly accelerate this ambition – in fact, they already are in certain government circles. It’s
When we talk about the widespread use of the IoT, we must keep in mind three major aspects organisations are considering when they deploy devices: price (including device and communication costs – data volumes and bandwidth), coverage and power consumption. So the challenge is how to optimise these three key
Marketing is going through a period of fundamental change, where things are very different than 10 years ago. Customers have higher expectations for their interactions – whether by phone, online or in person. They also want increasingly personalized experiences and offers. Fortunately, the vast majority are also willing to provide
There is no doubt that we are living in a new era of business intelligence (BI). In this new era, BI is no longer just a way to wrap data into various shiny packages for static visualisation. Instead, BI has started to get its own brain, and this new intelligence
In the previous article of this series, Vincent Rejany explained why Personal Data Protection regulation are calling for better governance of data. Let’s talk now about one building block of these regulations for demonstrating accountability: the records of processing activities, and how SAS® Personal Data Compliance Manager allows to perform
The distinction between specialists and generalists has been around for a long time, though not necessarily referring to people. For example, did you know that there is a species of birds that only lives in the Marlborough Sounds in New Zealand? The king shag is only known to breed at
Ever since I was a child, I have loved the Warner Bros. cartoons featuring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote. I was fascinated by their different characters, and how they interacted, and the way that the storylines were both the same and different. Of course, some
After SAS® Global Forum in Denver, I took a holiday in San Francisco. Like all good tourists, I obviously went to visit the Golden Gate Bridge. While I was walking across it, I noticed a windsurfer getting what I thought was a bit close to the mouth of San Francisco
In my previous blog post I have described the tension between privacy and innovation. In this post I will discuss how to deal with this and transform challenges into opportunities. The ingredients of privacy-friendly innovation Having rules and ways to enforce those rules is key. What else do we need to innovate
I recently spoke to Thomas Gartzen, managing director of the European 4.0 Transformation Center. As well as talking about innovation labs in general, we also spoke about managing change and introducing an analytical approach to organisations. Thomas, do you think we can say that all companies are now software companies?
