Big Data and Analytics, Digital Strategy
Big Data Driving the Driverless Car: Digitizing Travel A major change to driving and travel is soon upon us. With little doubt, we can expect driverless cars in the next decade or so. However, it is not driverless cars that will change how we travel, but rather the digitization of travel, enabling driverless cars, which […]
Amazon, Apple, Artificial Intelligence, Asset Surveillance, Asymmetric Information, Automation, Big Data, Big Data Analytics, Big Data to Big Profits, Data Analytics, Data Exhaust, Driverless, Driverless car, Google, IoT, Sensors, Uber
Big Data and Analytics, Innovation
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 […]
Algorithm, Amazon, Amazon Pantry, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Big Data Analytics, Big Data to Big Profits, Coca-cola, CPG, Data Analytics, Grocery Store, Kraft, Nestle, Network Effect, Pepisco, Surge
The rapid and impressive rise of Uber and Airbnb in revolutionizing the car service and lodging industries is a testament to the rise of the “sharing economy.” In the sharing economy, assets that are traditionally owned and utilized by a single person for a single purpose, such as a personal car or personal apartment, are […]
Airbnb, Algorithm, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Big Data Analytics, Big Data to Big Profits, Sharing Data, Sharing Economy, Uber
Digital Strategy, Risk Management
Data Breaches Impact Reputations and Customers A data breach can lead to terrible consequences for you and your customers. In addition to devastating financial losses, the damage to your reputation and brand may be irreversible. Yet, despite the risks, some firms still view cyber crimes as random events. They take a “this will never happen […]
Big Data Risks, Crisis Management, Cyber Risk, Data Breaches, Data Risks, Enterprise Risk, ERM, Leadership, Operational Risk, Reputation, Risk, Risk Class, Risk Management, Risk Management Training, Risk Strategy, Social Media Risks
A Q&A with Russell Walker about risk management Many people think about risk management as a defensive strategy, a tool for minimizing exposure to economic crises or public-relations blowouts. But Russell Walker, a clinical associate professor of managerial economics and decision sciences at the Kellogg School of Management, argues that businesses should be thinking about […]
Big Data Risks, BP, Crisis Management, Cyber Risk, Data Breaches, Data Risks, Demographics, Enterprise Risk, Enterprise Risk Management, ERM, Global Affairs, Global Strategy, International Business, Leadership, Operational Risk, Reputation, Risk, Risk Class, Risk Management, Risk Management Training, Risk Strategy, Social Media Risks, Toyota, Trust, Winning with Risk, Winning with Risk Management
Traditionally, organizations have viewed risk management as a corporate requirement, and have often positioned it along with audit and regulatory functions. Some have even empowered and titled corporate groups to “manage risk” along these lines. This charge has often revolved around managing insurance policies and reviewing reports from rating agencies, which suggests that risk management […]
Big Data Risks, BP, Crisis Management, Cyber Risk, Data Breaches, Data Risks, Enterprise Risk, ERM, Global Affairs, Global Strategy, International Business, Leadership, Operational Risk, Reputation, Risk, Risk Class, Risk Management, Risk Management Training, Risk Strategy, Social Media Risks, Strategic Risk, Strategy, Toyota, Trust, Winning with Risk, Winning with Risk Management
Big Data and Analytics, Innovation
What’s your billboard worth? How do you measure the value of data? Usually it’s a matter of determining how much the data is worth to the business – how it translates into revenue, ROI, cost savings and other quantifiable benefits to the enterprise. But you can also measure how much others value your data. Let’s […]
Algorithm, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Asset Surveillance, Asymmetric Information, Big Data, Big Data Analytics, Big Data to Big Profits, Billboard, Data Analytics, Data Capture, Data Monetization, Data Products, Data Science, IoT, Location Based Services, Mobile, Real Estate
Big Data and Analytics, Innovation
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 […]
Airbnb, Algorithm, Analytics, Apple, Artificial Intelligence, Asymmetric Information, Big Data, Big Data Analytics, Big Data to Big Profits, Data Analytics, Data Monetization, Data Products, Data Science, Digital Platforms, Economic Sciences, Uber
Big Data and Analytics, Innovation
Turning Data into Valuable Data Products In June, WIRED published an infographic that showed the top feeder schools for big technology companies. It used information available on LinkedIn to see where recruits to companies like Apple and Twitter went to college. It meant that the merits and benefits of a college (and presumably all colleges) […]
Airbnb, Algorithm, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Big Data Analytics, Big Data to Big Profits, Data Analytics, Data Capture, Data Monetization, Data Products, Data Science