1. Business Agility and Disruption Most analysts agree that we have moved from the Industrial and into the Information Age. During the Information Age, the phenomenon is that the digital industry creates a knowledge-based society surrounded by a high-tech global economy that spans over its influence on how the manufacturing throughout and the service sector…
Nobody should be a Data Steward! Kind of an ironic statement from a data management site with a particular focus on data governance. Almost every body working with data performs data stewardship tasks – mostly without even realising it.; A salesperson captures new leads, creates quotes, updates contact information and so on. If he does…
There is an old story about an experiment involving nine monkeys. Four monkeys are placed in a cage. Every day, a plate of fresh fruit is placed into the cage. As the monkeys reach for the food the keepers come in and beat them. Over the course of a few weeks the monkeys learn not…
A short post this week – I am still travelling Bias in decision making can trump data – as discussed in Is Bias the 7th data quality metric – and Is High Cholesterol bad? On the global stage – the analytics that predicted a Hillary Clinton victory in the 2018 US election was, in…
We are surrounded by huge amount of data. Data is everywhere and is gaining huge importance and relevance in today’s world. There are many firms that are performing tasks of gathering, retrieving and managing data. This requires systems that can help us handle that much amount of data. Machine Learning has helped us in gathering…
When I first started posting about big data, very few users existed in South Africa. Today, most last organisations have a Hadoop data lake – in many cases replacing traditional ETL and/or acting as a data archive as well as a feeder to the enterprise data warehouse and, various operational data marts. In a few,…
When people think about the future of business, it’s often in terms of new technologies, such as artificial intelligence, virtual reality, or other concepts that even a few years ago would seem like impossible science fiction. But amidst all the glitz and glamour of a hyper-connected world, “the boring stuff” often goes unnoticed. The day-to-day science…
