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Archive for January 2009

Friday, January 30th, 2009

The Age of Mass Intelligence?

I was recently reading a posting entitled “The Age of Mass Intelligence“. The article prompted some interesting points regarding the mass availability of information to the growing population of the world and the proliferation of intelligence around the globe.
Sure, there are still many people without internet access, cable TV and other mass media channels. But, [...]

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Monday, January 26th, 2009

Creating Trust

What will business owe to the decision maker?  How does the enterprise empower the decision maker inside the organization?
Companies are judged in so-called “Best Places to Work” lists based upon the things they give to employees like great health benefits, great work environments, flex time, daycare and whether there is a cappuccino maker in the [...]

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Sunday, January 18th, 2009

The Right Data for the Right Problem

Many companies have deployed world class CRM and ERP systems to collect volumes of data, spending years collecting lots of data and then begin to explore what types of questions they can ask of the data. That’s backwards from a logical perspective. And this can be a costly error.

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Sunday, January 11th, 2009

The Early Detection of Cancer and Opportunity

One of the greatest challenges to the pervasive implementation of predictive analytics is the persistence that we as humans know, that we don’t know until after the event when evidence can support our assumptions. And even then the facts can be disputed. This is paralyzing business.
A pertinent article recently featured in Wired magazine touts the [...]

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