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Data is not a bi-product of your business: Stop treating it as one
Perspective I often encounter good people struggling in their jobs to fulfill their most basic responsibilities. This might be closing a deal to up or cross sell to an existing customer, booking an order, fulfilling customer orders, providing basic customer support, and billing. These professionals, expecting these to be established or easily matured capabilities, instead […]
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‘Skill Gap’ Completely Misses the Point
Perspective CNN posted an article this fall reporting that “America has 5.8 million job openings*”. It proceeded to explain that ‘experts’ see this as not just an indication of economic resurgence, but warned of a ‘skill gap’. I am not clear on why such a view would be the conclusion here. I see something different […]
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Resisting Cloud Adoption May Be an Evolutionary Disadvantage
Perspective It is all always interesting to watch as a new idea progress into a disruptive and then destructive one. Today we are witnessing several trends which seem to be ushering in nothing short of Copernican changes across many industries. IoT, robo-advice, block chain, bitcoin, robotics, personalized medicine, self-driving cars, Smart Grids and Smart Cities. […]