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The Limits of Introspection

The Limits of Introspection

On our journey towards self-knowledge, our first impulse is often to turn inward, introspect and self-reflect. We give great weight to our introspections. Most of us are confident that our perceptions of ourselves are more accurate than others’ perceptions of them. Yet psychological research tells us that introspection is often a highly inaccurate source of self-knowledge. An over-reliance on introspection trips one up — decreasing performance, reducing decision quality and even undermining self-insight. 2 […]

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IT spending to reach $330.4 bn by 2017; purchases shifting to CMO, CFO

International Data Corporation (IDC) announced a new report, “United States Technology Buyer Forecast by Vertical: 2012 to 2017,” which examines technology spending by 12 buying segments and how this new technology purchasing behavior differs by 15 vertical industries. According to the new report, the business technology spending market will grow at 6.9% 5 year CAGR from $236.6 billion in 2012 to $330.7 billion by 2017, while enterprise IT grows slowly at a 1.9% 5 […]

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Sales Still Matters More than Social Media

Sales Still Matters More than Social Media

Sales Still Matters More than Social Media It’s become commonplace for observers to tout the transformative potential of digital technologies and bemoan the allegedly slow pace at which companies support these initiatives. Two recent blogs published by HBR.org are representative and, I believe, wrong. Walter Frick, an HBR editor, contrasts the enthusiasm of executives for spending money on digital initiatives versus their relatively unsupportive boards. “Digital growth is appropriately a priority for a diverse […]

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How People Learn

Despite his best efforts and long hours, Nobel-Prize winning physicist and professor Carl Wieman grew frustrated by his inability to teach and his students’ failure to learn. When I first taught physics as a young assistant professor, I used the approach that is all too common when someone is called upon to teach something. First I thought very hard about the topic and got it clear in my own mind. Then I explained it […]

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The Question to Ask Before Hiring a Data Scientist

The Question to Ask Before Hiring a Data Scientist

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 […]

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Big Data Analytics Adoption

Big Data Analytics Adoption

Big Data Analytics Adoption Big Data is an emerging phenomenon . Nowadays, many organizations have adopted information technology (IT) and information systems (IS) in business to handle huge amounts of data and gain better insights into their business. Many scholars believe that Business Intelligence (BI), solutions with Analytics capabilities, offer benefits to companies to achieve competitive advantage towards their competitors. According to Adelman et al. (2002) , “ Business Intelligence is a term that […]

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Measuring the Practice of Collaborative Innovation: What’s Your Story?

Measuring the Practice of Collaborative Innovation: What’s Your Story?

purple white people gears collab Last week, a Mindjet client and SpigitEngage user sought my view on measurement . He pursues his practice in a global, multi-brand enterprise, and wanted to know how he might measure his practice of collaborative innovation. My perspective? We tell a story by how and what we measure, and we can weave that tale in many different ways. We start with a premise of how the practice might help an […]

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VNI Service Adoption Forecast

VNI Service Adoption Forecast

The Cisco® Visual Networking Index Services Adoption (VNI SA) Forecast provides a unique view into global and regional trends of next-generation end-user services and applications. The study also reviews the underlying addressable markets (subscribers and users) and the relevant devices and connections that support the projections. The forecast provides projections for 24 select end-user application and service penetration rates in three primary user categories: residential, consumer mobile, and business. What You Will Learn The […]