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Leveraging Agility to Create Economies of Learning Mindset – Part 1

  • Bill Schmarzo 

A recent HBR article, “Why Do Chief Data Officers Have Such Short Tenures?” by Thomas Davenport, Randy Bean, and Josh King, highlighted the Chief Data Officer’s (CDO) “Data-to-Business Innovation” challenge. The main charter for the CDO is to accelerate the Data-to-Business Innovation flywheel; to guide the business in becoming more effective at leveraging data and analytics to optimize its key business and operational use cases.

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Data Management as a Business Discipline – Part 3: Enabling Frameworks

  • Bill Schmarzo 

A Business Discipline consists of systematic research, observation, measurement, and experimentation resulting in the assimilation of learnings into laws, theorems, concepts, principles, practices, frameworks, and formulas to enable the consistent application and ongoing enhancements from the real-world application of that discipline.

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Data Subassemblies and Data Products Part 1: Modern Data Management Building Blocks

  • Bill Schmarzo 

I believe that there are two key modern data management “products” required to transition data management into a business discipline focused on helping organizations accelerate their data-driven business innovation. One of those “products” – Data Products – is already gaining wide acceptance as a way for organizations to monetize their customer, product, service, and operational insights or predicted behavioral and performance propensities.

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Point – Counterpoint on Why Organizations Suck at AI

  • Bill Schmarzo 

I love this infographic recently floating around LinkedIn.  Sorry, don’t know to whom to give credit, but it does provide an interesting depiction of how senior management thinks AI works and the realities of what’s required to make AI work.

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Data Management as a Business Discipline – Part 2: Theorems and Principles

  • Bill Schmarzo 

In the blog “Why Data Management is Today’s Most Important Business Discipline”, I challenged the business and IT communities to reframe the data management conversation; to transform data management from an IT practice into a business discipline focused on leveraging data (and analytics) to deliver business and operational outcomes.

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How to Win an Election Using Big Data

  • Bill Schmarzo 

Before World War II, less than 20% of voters classified themselves as independents.  Today that number is greater than 45%.As politics fails to appeal to more Americans, politicians will need to embrace a different approach to appeal to those important independent “swing” voters who will decide our political leaders.

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Data Science Lessons from Top Gun

  • Bill Schmarzo 

The movie of the summer of 2022 is no doubt “Top Gun: Maverick.”  Fast moving, tons of aerial combat, lots of excitement, and the youngest-looking Tom Cruise I’ve ever seen (not one stitch of grey hair on his head).  There’s gotta be a Data Science lesson in there somewhere…

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We Live in a Bayesian World – Part 2

  • Bill Schmarzo 

Those darn humans have a few learning impediments that impact our ability to effectively learn from integrating a historical perspective with new evidence or data. Let’s explore some impediments that hinder our ability to learn more effectively.

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