Iceland: Economic and Business Lessons – Fire and Ice This summer, I had the pleasure of visiting Iceland with my family. It is an amazing country in so many ways. In addition to its unmatched natural beauty of mountains, glaciers, seashores, and active volcanoes, visiting offers some great lesson in economics and business. Iceland Has […]
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Big Data and Analytics, Global Insights, Leadership
The 2016 Presidential election has revealed, in part the dramatically different plights and outlooks of Americans. I believe these differences are rooted in social-economic realities that are not obvious to many of us living in prosperous bubbles. I have assembled a set of maps and graphs that help us understand these drastic differences. In the […]
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Big Data and Analytics, Digital Strategy
The opportunities ahead for Microsoft and LinkedIn are many, there are also some important lessons for the tech industry. This, the largest of Microsoft’s acquisitions, is really about buying data and data assets. Here are my thoughts on opportunities going forward and lessons leaned from the LinkedIn sale: Microsoft can make LinkedIn the Greatest Expert […]
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The 2016 Presidential Election has offered surprises and intrigue. It has also offered excellent examples of strategy at work. These lessons are most applicable to business, too. These are 7 important business strategy lessons from the election: Lead with a Simple and Direct Message: Trump has a very simple and direct tagline, “Make America Great, […]
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Big Data and Analytics, Innovation
Everywhere you look there is mention of “Big Data.” But what business people care most about is turning big data into big profits. This is the focus of Russell Walker’s book From Big Data to Big Profits:
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Big Data and Analytics, Innovation
By Cheryl SooHoo How do you turn your company’s big data into big bucks? First think big and then bigger about the value of your data, says Russell Walker EMP 64, clinical associate professor of Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences at Kellogg. “Your data doesn’t jump out and say, ‘Hey, I am worth hundreds of […]
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Big Data and Analytics, Innovation
The real estate industry has gone through a massive transformation as new real estate websites such as Zillow (and Trulia now owned by Zillow, and Redfin) have brought together Big Data sets on available properties, home buyers, and home sellers. These firms have, in the process, showed us that important lessons and best practices in […]
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Big Data and Analytics, Digital Strategy
Major consumer-package-goods firms (CPG), like Kraft, Nestle, Coca-Cola and PepsiCo have always operated with a blind spot about customers. This has always made marketing challenging. Although their products were often ingested by consumers, they rarely if ever met customers. CPG firms rarely knew their identify of customers and even at times had a poor understanding […]
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Big Data and Analytics, Digital Strategy
Big Data, Open Data, and the Asymmetry of Information Anytime you own an asset, be it a building, stock, bond, or even a race horse, you want to measure it and determine how its value has changed in the market. Often this process is consider Asset Surveillance. We might think about it as how firms […]
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Big Data and Analytics, Digital Strategy
Big Data Lessons from Ashley Madison: Privacy Implications and Data Monetization Strategies The recent hacking of user data from the match-making site, Ashley Madison has brought into focus a few important lessons that we should consider about how Big Data and our digital trails that are now incessantly monitored. Privacy is a Lost Privilege The […]
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