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During a recent webinar on big data, several listeners wanted to know what the biggest stumbling blocks and reasons for failure were when it comes to big data projects, and what they could do to avoid them. Given the amount of resonance, in particular the top issue I cited, I thought I’d share it in this blog post. Please let me have your views and comments. There are clearly many reasons why projects struggle […]
Implementing Change Powerfully and Successfully Kotter’s Change Model Learn how to implement change successfully. © iStockphoto Change is the only constant. – Heraclitus, Greek philosopher What was true more than 2,000 years ago is just as true today. We live in a world where "business as usual" is change. New initiatives, project-based working, technology improvements, staying ahead of the competition – these things come together to drive ongoing changes to the way we work. […]
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When hiring data scientists, there’s nothing more frustrating than making the wrong hire. Data scientists are in notoriously high demand , hard to attract, and command large salaries — compounding the cost of a mistake. At The Data Incubator, we’ve talked to dozens of employers looking to hire data scientists from our training program, from large corporates like Pfizer and JPMorgan Chase to smaller tech startups like Foursquare and Upstart. Employers that didn’t have […]
BII The Internet Of Things will reshuffle priorities and costs for global enterprises. The IoT will be a diffuse layer of devices, sensors, and computing power that overlays entire business-to-business, consumer-facing and government industries. The IoT will account for an increasingly huge number of connections: 1.9 billion devices today, and 9 billion by 2018. That year, it will be roughly equal to the number of smartphones, smart TVs, tablets, wearable computers, and PCs combined . […]
Disruption of channels in a connected world is hardly rare. Travel agents were double-punched with online booking systems and e-tickets (eliminating the need for their specialized printers). Bookstores that survived the superstores are losing the battle to online retailers. The Internet initially offered communications VARs opportunity, but then came the squeeze from out-of-state dealers, centralized deployments, and cloud providers. The cloud represents the biggest threat to the traditional channel, and at the most risk […]
How the practices of “pride builders” can help you build a high-performance culture. Illustration by Lars Leetaru When the leaders of a major retail pharmacy chain set out to enhance customer satisfaction, market research told them that the number one determinant would be friendly and courteous service. This meant changing the organizational culture in hundreds of locations—creating an open, welcoming atmosphere where regular customers and employees knew one another’s names, and any question was […]
Introduction A post written by my colleague Marty Parker earlier this month discusses the idea of carving up your PBX ( How to Carve PBX ). In his post, Marty refers to Andy Grove’s (former CEO of Intel) famous book, Only The Paranoid Survive: How To Exploit The Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company . Throughout his book, Andy refers to a “strategic inflection point.” I believe, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that we […]
By Connected and intelligent products are predicted to be the biggest “user group” of the Internet by 2020, estimated at 24 billion devices. In the industrial world, connected smart devices have the potential to transform how factories operate, buildings are managed, and vehicles are maintained and operated. As industrial devices become more intelligent and connected, they are producing huge amounts of data that can be collected and used to generate new business ideas and […]