Imagine you’re a hungry black bear and you’re standing in a fast-moving river up in the Rocky Mountains. You peer down into the water as it swirls and bubbles past your legs. You know there are fish in there somewhere, and over the years you have seen all kinds of
Lee Thorpe, Head of Risk Business Solutions at SAS UK & Ireland, explores the challenges that the new international financial reporting standard (IFRS) 17 will introduce. A fundamental change is coming to insurance. The new accounting standard, IFRS 17, will be introduced by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) in
Creating an architecture to support AI is about creating a modern platform for advanced analytics, and means being able to support all steps of the analytics lifecycle. Requirements An architecture for advanced analytics/artificial intelligence need to cover three main domains, data, discovery and deployment. Data Data is the foundation of
In the Software industry principles like agile development, adaptive planning and early delivery are common practice. Similarly, in the start-up world the concept of MVP (Minimum Viable Product) is regarded as the only way to be successful. To what extent can this way of thinking be transferable to other functions
I’m a bit of a data nerd, and especially a data visualisation nerd. I love graphs and charts, but not for their own sake. What I love about them is the way that a single picture can show so many different things, and often provide new business insights into data.
Even as we come to terms with the increasing presence of fake news in the political landscape, we need to consider the vulnerability of companies, brands and employees to the same phenomenon. Social media across all channels have become an accelerator to enable unverified, and unverifiable, claims to travel far
For those who don’t know, Byte Night is run by Action for Children. It is the charity’s biggest annual fundraiser, and is, very simply, a national sleep-out by individuals and teams from the business and technology sector. Now in its 20th year, it is one of the UK’s largest mass
Manufacturers are not like Steve Jobs. He famously didn’t worry about market research when developing the iPod, merely assuming — some would say arrogantly — that the product was so good that everyone would buy it. He was right, but few would have his confidence. Manufacturers, by contrast, tend to
Deals don't always come to a happy end, and that is often a result of poor customer experience. It costs billions to companies, and what is worse, the customer might go with another supplier not only this time but also next time. How then, do you create a customer experience
There is a lot of buzz about real-time analysis just at the moment. Obtaining and analysing real-time data, the story goes, will enable us to respond instantly to things that need our attention. And it certainly is true that there are some things that are considerably improved by real-time analysis.
