Driving Product Sales with Big Data: Amazon’s Threat to Retail

Big Data and Analytics, Digital Strategy

Driving Product Sales with Big Data: Amazon’s Threat to Retail

20 Aug , 2015  

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, Open Data, and the Asymmetry of Information

Big Data and Analytics, Digital Strategy

Big Data, Open Data, and the Asymmetry of Information

12 Aug , 2015  

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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Serious Big Data Lessons from the Ashley Madison Data Breach

Big Data and Analytics, Digital Strategy

Serious Big Data Lessons from the Ashley Madison Data Breach

9 Aug , 2015  

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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Digital Platforms and Big Data Creation

Big Data and Analytics, Digital Strategy

Digital Platforms and Big Data Creation

11 Apr , 2015  

Digital platforms are all around us. We used many each day. These platforms serve our needs but also create realms of Big Data – about or lives, media, shopping, health, and interest. LinkedIn is a great example of a powerful and successful digital platform. Parties interface digitally. Data is openly shared, transmitted, created, and then […]

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Big Data to Big Profits: Asset Surveillance & Economic Value

Big Data and Analytics, Innovation

Big Data to Big Profits: Asset Surveillance & Economic Value

22 Nov , 2014  

Leveling the Data Playing Field – Forming New Markets The economic concept of asymmetric information is fascinating … so much so that research on the topic earned the 2001 Nobel Prize in economic sciences. The idea is that there is an imbalance of power in a transaction when one party has access to more information […]

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