AI, Analytics, Big Data, Digital Strategy, Privacy, Risk Management
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, […]
Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Asymmetric Information, Big Data, Big Data Analytics, Data Analytics, Data Science, economics, ethics, Facebook, featured, Privacy, Risk
There is an open debate among economists and business leaders on why digitization leads to a near winner take-all business model. We see the dominance of one search tool in Google and Netflix over other movie providers. In decades past, it was common to have a movie theater in each community and local bakers everywhere. In other business models, especially those driven by personal relationships and locality, we have seen many scores of offerings simultaneously. In fact, achieving scale for the seller was very hard.
Amazon, Bing, Bing LinkedIn, customer, Customization, Data, Digital, Digital Disruption, Digital Followers, Digital leader, Digital Lessons, Digital Platform, Easy Button, eBay, Eonomy of Scale, Facebook, featured, Google, Instacart, Jet, LinkedIn, Lyft, media, Microsoft, Myspace, Netflix, Rocket Mortgage, Staples, Turbotax, Walmart, Youtube
On November 30, 2018, we lost President George Herbert Walker Bush. He offers us so many leadership lessons, and quite many of those are not celebrated or introduced with braggadocio. That was not his style. In the election of 1992, I recall the excitement of Ross Perot. He was in; he was out, he was […]
American Disabiluty Act, Bill Clinton, China, Civility, Clean Air Act, Disagreement, Facebook, featured, George Bush, George H.W. Bush, George Herbert Walker Bush, Germany, Gorbachev, Grace, Gulf War, Jimmy Carter, Kuwait, Leaders, Leadership, Michelle Obama, Navy, Pacific, Panama, Points of Light, Poland, President, President Bush, President Trump, Ross Perot, Russia, Soviet, Tampa, Trump, University of South Florida, World War II
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, […]
crime, crime fighting, Data, Data Breach, DNA, Facebook, family, family tree, featured, genealogy, Generations, genes, Golden State Murder, Journal of Science, murder, Privacy
Big Data, Big Data and Analytics, Digital Strategy
I recently wrote about how social media, in particular, Facebook can map the fandom of college football and NFL fans. These examples show how social media and digital operators can leverage data to measure assets, like the value of teams, the size and location of college alumni, and even put a price on things like […]
Al Lopez, baseball, Boston, Branding, Braves, CBS, Cubs, Data Monetization, Dodgers, Facebook, fandom, fans, featured, Florida, Ft. Myers, George Steinbrenner, Giants, Hall of Fame, Miami, MLB, New York Times, Radio, Red Sox, Reds, sponsorhip, Sports, Sports Analytics, Sports Management, spring training, St. Petersburg, Tampa, Tampa Bay Rays, The Boss, Upstate, White Sox, Yankess
Analytics, Big Data, Big Data and Analytics, Innovation
The Wall Street Journal recently reported that Facebook approached multiple, major US banks, including Chase, Wells Fargo, and US Bank with a proposition to include customer financial data on Facebook.
Amazon, Analytics, Asset Surveillance, Asymmetric Information, Banking, Big Data, Big Data Analytics, Convergence of Internet, credit, credit cards, Data Capture, Data Monetization, data ownership, ethics, Facebook, featured, Google, Internet, location, Location Based Services, maps, Mobile, Northwestern University, Privacy, Social Media, Uber, Wells Fargo
Analytics, Big Data, Big Data and Analytics, Digital Strategy
Everyday Lessons from the Facebook Data Scandal As the facts come out slowly, there is convincing revelation that what Facebook did and did not do that was highly misguided. There are other realities of the nature of big data capture and digital surveillance in our lives that we must reconsider. Indeed, the notion of privacy […]
Cambridge Analytica, Data Capture, Data Misuse, Data Monetization, Digital Economy, Digital Privacy, Facebook, featured, Privacy, Social Media Risks
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, Innovation
Things are a bit different this Fall at Northwestern University, and it feels great! The Wildcats are undefeated and ranked ahead of Michigan, who they will meet on Saturday in one of the biggest games for the Wildcats in recent memory. Yet, Michigan is favored in the game. Go figure. College football offers us a […]
Advertising, Algorithm, Big Data, Big Data Analytics, Big Data to Big Profits, Chicago, College, Data Capture, Data Science, Facebook, Football, Nestle, Northwestern University, Sports Management
Big Data and Analytics, Innovation
With the NFL season in full swing, I thought I would share a graphic that impressed me. It shows how Data Visualization and the power of Data Science can help us understand more about our lives and things we enjoy. It was developed by Sean Taylor of the Facebook Data Science Team, and credits go […]
Advertising, Analytics, Big Data, Big Data Analytics, Big Data to Big Profits, Chicago, Data Science, Entertainment, Facebook, Fan, Football, Map, NFL, Sports, Sports Analytics, Sports manag, Tampa
