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Time for Tech to Drive Change
It is long overdue for us as citizens, and as technologists, to make health, safety, and well-being in the Black community real priorities…
All Models are Wrong
Data scientists live by the aphorism “All models are wrong… but some are useful.” This truism, often attributed to twentieth century statistic…
All Pandemics Are Local
“Global Pandemic” is the headline you see everywhere you look. Simple reality, the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting economic shock is local.
How to Transform a “Big, Old” Company into an Agile Digital Business
“As consumers, we take digital technologies for granted… We don’t wonder why these things are possible; we simply expect them,”said Designed for Digital a recently published book by Jeanne Ross, Cynthia Beath, and Martin Mocker in its Preface.
Avoiding “Winner-Take-All” in the World of AI
In a recent NY Times article, leading tech journalist Steve Lohr captured the anxiety of academic researchers about the concentrated wealth and power of a handful of tech titans.
Beyond Machine Learning: Capturing Cause-and-Effect Relationships
Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming one of the most important technologies of our era. Every day we can read about the latest AI advances from startups and large companies.
You Don’t Need a Year of Data Cleansing
There’s a nearly universal belief in the business world that you can’t use AI without first going through a long, painful process of data cleansing and normalization.
r4 Named a Gartner Cool Vendor in AI Core Technologies
Each year, as part of its comprehensive research program, Gartner designates a select group of companies as Cool Vendors in established and emerging technology categories.
New Thinking for a New World
The world is moving faster and faster – that’s obvious. In fact, it’s more than that: the rate of acceleration is increasing. In 1970 Alivn…
Incumbents Path to New Growth Part 3 of 3
This final post in this series addresses the new set of technology-enabled management capabilities that are required to make cross-enter…
Incumbents Path to New Growth Part 2 of 3
Part 1 of this blog series looked at how scale and stability, ever-changing market dynamics, and competition from tech giants and insurg…
Incumbents Path to New Growth Part 1 of 3
A paradox surrounds the topic of business growth. On the one hand, many well-regarded projections suggest that we’re entering an era with…