Digital Strategy, Global Insights, Innovation, Leadership

Lessons from Collecting – What Happens When We Don’t Own?

27 Sep , 2023  

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 […]

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Global Insights, Leadership

Is Your Business Capturing the Hyper Growth in the US Hispanic Market?

14 Sep , 2023  

The wave of Spanglish has hit advertisers in recent years. Dos Equis invites its customers to “Keep it Interesante,” while taco fans at Taco Bell “Live Más.”       Home Depot and other retailers have adopted a near bilingual policy in stores. Smart move! Hispanic culture is alive an well in the US, and […]

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AI, Analytics, Big Data, Digital Strategy, Privacy, Risk Management

Is Your DNA Privacy Protected? – Probably Not – Read Why

9 Sep , 2023  

Companies often grapple with the challenges of respecting customer privacy. Although most firms do not seek to cause or do harm, data breaches, inadvertent misuse of data, and unauthorized publishing of data seem to ultimately happen. Data on a social media site, on a shopping site, or from your gym membership may seem sensitive. But, […]

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AI, Analytics, Big Data, Global Insights

College Football – Data on Who is a Fan – Are you a Fan?

8 Sep , 2023  

With the college football in full swing, it is worth a look to see how the teams stack-up, not based on rankings, but based on fan loyalty. Big Data and Data Visualization help us with this and lead to some interesting insights. College football also offers us a great opportunity to look at the Big […]

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Career Advice, Leadership

Back to School Advice

4 Sep , 2023  

Fall is in full swing here in Seattle; the first of the maples are turning orange and the summer has quickly cooled. For me, it is a great change to move to the beautiful Pacific Northwest and to be part of a fine institution like the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington. […]

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Digital Strategy, Global Insights, Leadership

Inflation – Predicting the Winners

12 Nov , 2021  

The recent report of the Consumer Price Index topping 6.2% has sent shiver of inflation fears into the market. However, this inflationary hit seems different than the inflation seen in recent episodes of high inflation. Examining this will help us determine who are the winners and losers of the current inflation spike. How is the […]

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Analytics, Big Data, Big Data and Analytics, Digital Strategy

5 Valuable Uses of AI to Improve Daily Life

7 Nov , 2021  

In most every example of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in business, there is a chat bot or robot or algorithm that attempts to replace a human. We surely will see such replacement via AI, but augmentation is also a value approach and is far more attainable and perhaps even more valuable. In augmentation, a AI process […]

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Analytics, Big Data, Big Data and Analytics, Risk Management

Zillow – 7 Lucky Lessons in Risk and Analytical Predictions

4 Nov , 2021  

Zillow recently announced that it is pulling the plug on its once highly touted house buying machine. Indeed, it was suppose to be a machine, one that used billions of pieces of data to find arbitrage opportunities in the market using algorithms. Buy a house in a surging market, fix it up (quick someone call […]

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Global Insights, Leadership

Gone Fishing: Amazon and Apple Deal with Less Workers and Slow Supply Chains

28 Oct , 2021  

Today, Amazon and Apple announced the limited supply of labor and slow-moving supply chains will hamper fourth quarter top line and bottom lines.[1][2] This should be a major wake-up call for investors and executives on the state of our global economy. Amazon and Apple are unique in that each exerts high control and even ownership […]

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Global Insights, Innovation, Risk Management

10 Unexpected Changes from COVID that Will Stay with Us

5 Oct , 2020  

With President Trump and many people around him being treated for COVID, it is clear that COVID can and does touch everyone. Even if you are not infected, you are experiencing a new economy and a new world. COVID changes have been challenging. Many of the changes we are experiencing will stay with us for years, I think. Some are unexpected and will have long-term impacts to our society and economy. Here are some predictions of economic and financial changes that will stay, even after we have achieved victory or control over COVID.

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