Last week I sat for a panel discussion at Folio Show 2018 on how companies can better leverage big data, both from a marketing standpoint but also in how we build out products, strategies, and solutions for our customers. Today, data informs every business decision we make, and making sense of it all has become both a challenge and an opportunity. With so much data at our fingertips, it’s more important than ever to capture and provide that data for clients in a way that provides actionable insights and strategies.
Oct
18
2018
Last week I sat for a panel discussion at Folio Show 2018 on how companies can better leverage big data, both from a marketing standpoint but also in how we build out products, strategies, and solutions for our customers. Today, data informs every business decision we make, and making sense of it all has become both a challenge and an opportunity.
Jan
10
2017
When it comes to technological advancements and the impact they have on our society, Andrew McAfee - visionary futurist, Director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy and keynote speaker at ALM’s upcoming Legalweek, The Experience conference – put it best when he stated in his 2013 TED talk, “What will future jobs look like?”, that “we are in the middle of an astonishing period.”
Aug
17
2016
Our data processes were running like a well-oiled machine. Information came in and valuable insights flowed out. In the middle of it all sat a series of processes that dissected information from a very complicated source, smoothed it out, and made it useful. Then the Department of Labor released a statement saying they were going to make major changes to our data source, the Form 5500. Along with the statement came one thousand pages of supporting documentation.
Jun
1
2016
It’s exciting to think of data and analytics as a harbinger of revelatory big new insights, ushering in a new era of data-optimized, predictive, automated decision-making to address big, ugly problems. But data analysis can also empower us in a perhaps less sensational but equally important way: by debunking the conventional wisdom that often drives our decision-making.