Digital Strategy, Global Insights, Innovation, Leadership
Recently, I caught up with a friend that I have known for 30 years. Today, we are both raising our children. In the 1980’s, we were teenagers in Florida collecting football and baseball cards, going to coin shops to find “rare” or different foreign coins, and of course we were listening to music on records […]
Asset Surveillance, car ownership, collecting, Data Monetization, Digital, Digital Economy, Digital Platforms, economics, featured, hobbies, Hobby, Home Onwership, Marketing, Music, NFT, ownership, Tesla, Uber
Big Data, Big Data and Analytics, Digital Strategy
Are you Netflix or Blockbuster?
A great focus for many startups, investors, and entrepreneurs is creating the next Netflix, Amazon, Uber, or Airbnb – namely to be a digital disruptor. Netflix conquered the analog and physical model of Blockbuster by bringing a digital layer to measure customers, movies, and even brand placements. Before Netflix, Blockbuster was the media channel of preference. It died a rather quick death when media and media consumption became digital.
Airbnb, Amazon, Analytics, Apple, Asset Surveillance, Big Data, Big Data to Big Profits, Data Analytics, Data Products, Digital, Digital Economy, Digital Platforms, disruption, featured, Uber
Analytics, Big Data, Big Data and Analytics, Digital Strategy, Innovation
Improvements from Artificial Intelligence and (More) Robots in Our Lives It is anticipated that some 22 million units of Amazon echo will be purchased this year. Building on the 11 million sold in 2016, north of 30 million units will soon be deployed. It is perhaps as rapid a technological deployment, as a percentage of […]
AI, Amazon, Analytics, Apple, Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Big Data, Big Data Analytics, Booking.com, Digital, Digital Assistant, Digital Economy, Digital Platforms, featured, Gen X, Google, iTunes, Kayak, Microsoft, Music, Tripadvisor, Vacation, Yelp
Analytics, Big Data, Big Data and Analytics, Digital Strategy
The recent 2017 Berkshire Hathaway shareholder meeting offered some insights into how Warren Buffett thinks about stocks, especially those of large digital companies. I thought it important to explore these, given the rise of Digital Enterprises. When we think of Digital Enterprises, leaders like Google, Apple, Amazon, and even Microsoft come to mind. What do […]
Amazon, Analytics, Apple, Automation, Big Data, Big Data Analytics, Big Data to Big Profits, Data Analytics, Data Capture, Data Monetization, David and Goliath, Digital, Digital Economy, Digital Platforms, Digital Strategy, featured, Google, Microsoft, Warren Buffett
Analytics, Big Data, Big Data and Analytics, Digital Strategy, Innovation
Netflix has long been heralded as a leader in the use of analytics and even the creation of novel big data. That is all true. Nobody knows more about movie tastes than Netflix, with its some 1 billion reviews in its database. The graphic above shows that Netflix can use such data and customer behavior […]
Amazon, Analytics, Big Data, Big Data Analytics, Big Data to Big Profits, Data Analytics, Data Monetization, Data Products, Data Science, Digital Platforms, Netflix, Sports Analytics, Uber
Big Data and Analytics, Digital Strategy, Innovation
By now, most of us have seen or are even using programmable thermostats. One of the recent and more interesting offerings in this space is from Nest. Nest sells a thermostat that captures data about human presence to self learn what heating and cooling decisions are best. Programming is not needed; it learns what is […]
Artificial Intelligence, Asset Surveillance, Automation, Big Data, Big Data Analytics, Data Analytics, Digital, Digital Economy, Digital Platforms, featured, Google, IoT, Sensors, Technology
Big Data and Analytics, Digital Strategy
This weekend, we learned that Verizon has agreed to purchase Yahoo! for $4.83 billion dollars. Recently, Salesforce.com CEO, Mark Benioff announced that it would have paid more than the $26.2 billion paid by Microsoft for LinkedIn. With Verizon’s $4.4 billion purchase of AOL last year, these mega transactions raise some questions about what is a […]
Analytics, AOL, Asymmetric Information, Big Data, Big Data Analytics, Big Data to Big Profits, Big Data Value, Customer Data, Data Analytics, Data Capture, Data Monetization, Data Products, Digital Platforms, Facebook, featured, Google, IBM, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Mobile, Social Network Data, The Weather Channel, Twitter, User Data, Value of Big Data, Value of customer Data, Value of LinkedIn Data, Value of User Data, Value of Yahoo Data, Verizon, Weather Data, Yahoo
Big Data and Analytics, Digital Strategy
Program on Creating Valuable Digital, Social, and Mobile Touch Points with Customer Includes: Measuring & Managing Digital, Social, and Mobile Touch Points with Customers Strategies for Monetizing Big Data Opportunities for Creating Data Products Leading the Data Science Team Creating New Data for Digital Disruption Managing Data Assets for Growth and Innovation Professor Walker […]
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