Embracing the Unexpected
The nineteen century belonged to the engineers. Western society had been invigorated and changed beyond recognition by the industrial revolution…
The HIPAA Privacy Rule and the Need for a Business Associate Agreement
You’re a covered entity (your company processes, stores or transfers any type of patient information), and you’re outsourcing your HIPAA…
So You Want to be a Data Analyst
If you want to become a data analyst, you should read my mail first. Here in my inbox you will…
Analytics: The widening divide. An IBM/MIT Sloan study
I listened in to IBM’s call about their recent analytics study conducted with MIT Sloan – The Widening Divide (available…
Black Swan Alert: Low Tech Links Devastate High Tech Supply Chains
Find your supply chain best practices checklist. Just-in-time processes? Check. Optimum sourcing strategies? Check. Lean logistics? Check. Best-in-class technologies? Check. Black swan…
Statistics Poetry by Geeks and Nerds
I couldn’t help myself. The creative juices started to flow and poetry spewed out of me like warm icing from…
The World’s 7 Most Powerful Data Scientists
Tim O’Reilly, founder of O’Reilly Media and highly regarded technology trend watcher and good idea amplifier, wrote a short piece…
Does information technology create or destroy jobs? Or is this even the right question?
Is information technology destroying more jobs than it creates? That’s long been the conventional wisdom, of course. Proponents of IT,…
One Trillion Reasons: One Year Later
In October 2010 one of America’s great outlets of technology leadership thought published an important paper meant to inform government…
