Thanks for stopping by and reading my blog ramblings! I'm a creative marketing manager with a passion for innovation, great leadership, cutting-edge technology and proper grammar. Opinions are my own. I've had the distinct privilege of working for a variety of great companies in a handful of different industries. It's certainly given me a wide perspective into the challenges that today's companies face in marketing their products, branding and connecting with their customers. In my spare time, I'm a husband and father of four very active kids. I try to stay active myself -- I've finished a marathon (4:03), a 50-mile bike ride and climbed a 14,000-foot mountain in Colorado over the last couple of years. Follow me on Twitter at @scottbatchelor or LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/in/scbatchelor.
Artificial intelligence promises to transform society on the scale of the industrial, technical, and digital revolutions before it. Machines that can sense, reason and act will accelerate solutions to large-scale problems in myriad of fields, including science, finance, medicine and education, augmenting human capability and helping us to go further,
Over the last few years, the main qualifications for a general manager of a sports team have changed dramatically. Gut feel and experience have been replaced by analytical insight and predictive modeling. If Billy Beane started the trend with his Moneyball approach to team building, GMs like Daryl Morey (Houston
Two years ago, Brad Pitt starred in Moneyball, an Academy Award-nominated story about Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane bringing the power of advanced analytics to the sport. Beane wasn’t the first to use statistical analytics to build a successful team and keep its payroll in check. Baseball and political
