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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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‘The Internet Of Things’ Will Change Virtually Everything About How Large Companies Operate

'The Internet Of Things' Will Change Virtually Everything About How Large Companies Operate

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 . […]

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Will UC Dealers Exist in a Cloudy World?

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 […]

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Three Secrets of Organizational Effectiveness

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 […]

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UCC: We Are At The Strategic Inflection Point

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 […]

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Today’s Industrial Revolution Means You Won’t Sell Products, You Will Sell Services

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 […]

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EBay Is Running Its Own Sociology Experiments

EBay Is Running Its Own Sociology Experiments

This article contains an interview with Elizabeth Churchill , head of human-computer interaction at eBay Labs and executive vice president at ACM SIGCHI. For e-commerce giants like Amazon and eBay, personalization is the name of the game. We live in an age where Internet pages are increasingly customized to individual users , all in the name of maximizing potential advertising or product revenue. EBay has been one of the companies at the forefront of […]