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Blog Posts by Bill Franks

If I gave you the choice of winning either $1,000,000 or one penny doubled every day for a month, which one would you pick? The million dollars sounds pretty good,…
In January, The Economist revealed the results of a major study aimed at identifying how businesses that are successful at being data-driven differ from those that are not.Some of the…
On December 10, I helped facilitate the International Institute for Analytics webinar to announce our analytics predictions for 2015. I will provide additional commentary on several of the predictions that…
Want to uncover interesting ways to drive value from data? Most organizations focus primarily on internal opportunities that support their business, such as understanding customers better, determining how to more…
Historically, most analytics have had laser focus on specific entities like a customer, a product, a vendor, or a variety of others. When performing analysis, the focus is usually purely…
I recently had a meeting with one of the largest companies in the world, where we discussed concerns about ongoing maintenance and, more importantly, ongoing repair required for analytics processes.…
Let’s explore a topic that has the potential to really disrupt the analytics and data visualization space if it comes to fruition. That topic is immersive intelligence, which is a…
In June, I wrote about the need to fund portfolios of analytics as opposed to individual projects in order to enable analytic innovation. Tied to that theme is a common…
With all of the lawsuits working through the courts and all of the scary possibilities being discussed in the media, it has led some people to assume that big data…