Digital Leader or Digital Laggard? Leaders have a comprehensive data acquisition strategy and practice PLUS  business/operations...

“Insight platforms” come in three types: visual, predictive, and streaming.

" Joel Hans RT Insights 30 Jan 2017"

I wish to add the...

Large swathes of the population have rebelled against elites whose goals, strategies and tactics have failed to deliver the perceived...

Strange how often a topic surfaces in different forms. Earlier today I commented on the missing component of BI-Location. Then 10 minutes...

Consumers today increasingly see the world through their phones. Parents bemoan the fact that their children live their whole lives...

Helps explain the baffled look in the C-Suite as the skunk works team show that customers needs require a major change in product,...

As all enterprises are challenged to maintain margins and public sector budgets are constrained but expectations increase, traditional...

Used to be that mapping location visually was enough. Not today!

Businesses must break down their rigid systems and processes to evolve to...

How often does a business user see new insights but not be able to apply these in the context of the outcomes they wish to achieve?

If the point of analytics is to enable better decision making based on evidence rather than perception and big ideas rooted in cognitive...

Smart Cities covers such a wide range of initiatives so its good to see that the value of Uber Trip data will be accessible to help...

Can you optimise the mix of intuition, lateral thinking and creativity with structured fact-based analysis. Can you test the logical...

At as time when we need real statesmen/stateswomen please do read the essay- follow link below.

Nothing to do with big data etc- far far...

Strange how political commentators and many politicians state, as fact, that inequality is rising when the opposite is fact. 

Another...

Data analytics typically does a few things:

• describes existing or past phenomena
• predicts future events based on past data
• prescribes a...

Valuable research from McKinsey showing one reason EU Public Sector so inefficient. It can only access and analyse 10% to 20% of the...

Every BI & Analytics Product has its strengths and weaknesses so if these benefits fit your priorities it behoves you to Download and...

Harvesting the fruits of the sea as well as harvesting the digital dividend. Great example of sensors, machine learning & AI and...

NYC Mayor's Office able to make better decisions as result of joining & analysing location and city data from over 70 stakeholder...

Some plain speaking here with hard truths for both vendors and end users. Having being mostly an end user many of these observations...

Refreshingly candid review of hurdles to self-service analytics which you should augment by reading "When self-service analytics is a...

The analytics market was once dominated on one hand by Business Objects, Cognos and Crystal and on the other hand accountants, analysts...

Read Sapiens? Our ability to establish "constructs" or abstract models was the competitive advantage that wiped out 30 other human...

Lemonade has taken a bite-sized slice of insurance- renters and a single immediate claim settlement is analysed with interesting thoughts.

Another sign of the increasing focus on mapping & location intelligence is Qlik's acquisition of Idevio. With the exponential rise in...

AI, Machine Learning & Predictive Analytics- can they help mitigate these risks? Business and other plans all impacted by these 10 (...

Beijing located Bluegogo has already placed 70,000 bikes in three cities which makes them a gorilla in global bike sharing schemes.