There is a referee’s penalty in the sport of American football called “piling on.” It is for unnecessarily jumping on a ball carrier who has already been tackled by others. There has been so much written about analytics that I fear if I add more, then I will be accused of “piling on.” But in [...]
Privacy is always a flash point. With the advent of big data, privacy is only going to be even more of a concern. The fact is that many sources of big data contain highly detailed information on what people are doing. While there are many very valid uses for most of these big data sources, [...]
How will the adoption rate of applying analytics accelerate? Who in an organization might emerge as the primary driver? Will it only be the CEO? Analytics is certainly embraced in functions such as marketing for customer and prospect analysis and as risk management. Is it possible that the CFO function might emerge as a key [...]
