Managing Promotions
Without promotion planning, demand planning fails
Based on Wikipedia, promotion is defined as:
"In marketing, promotion refers to any type of marketing communication used to inform or persuade target audiences of the relative merits of a...
America Under Fire — US Gov. Solarium Cybersecurity Report Sounds The General Alarm
A bi-partisan report sends a dire warning to be heeded by all Americans. The US is under sustained cyber-assault. Time to unite behind a common strategy.
"Our national security is now inexorably linked to cybersecurity"
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Microsoft Having An ‘Edge’ Over Chrome
A comeback from the revered underdog
A Brief History
I was never a fan of browsers, well to be exact I was only a fan of one, Chrome. It has been my reliable go-to browser for the...
The competitive healthcare landscape in the face of veering technological upswings
The demand for an agile business measure
The business landscape is continuing to change. Millennials' attitude is evolving into a more consumeristic one. Technological advances are perpetual, and so is the market behavior and public...
With Blockchain adoption is Collaboration the new Competition?
Today, there is a need for various organizations to join hands and fight the pandemic battle at hand. These organizations are not limited to healthcare providers and include companies focussing on disruptive technologies such...
Using Google Search Trends to Predict Initial Jobless Claims
For several years now, my focus has been on using alternative data of many kinds to predict macroeconomic statistics. When ran the Futures Group for the PDT Group at Morgan Stanley in the 1990’s...
How Hedge Funds Are Profiting From Your Data
The Full Extent of How Your Personal Data is Being (Mis)used
You are going to the supermarket for groceries; on your shopping list, you have fruits, chocolate, and paper towels. While this is a simple...
Encoder Decoder Sequences: How Long is Too Long?
In machine learning many times we deal with the input being a sequence and the output also a sequence. We call such a problem a sequence-to-sequence problem.
A popular architecture for dealing with the sequence-to-sequence...
Data driven starts with data literacy
Just hearing the word “data” is intimidating. Being honest, only 21 percent of global workers are confident in their data literacy skills -- and that number might be high.
With some of the best places...
The Ethics Of Using AI In Healthcare
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is being applied to any industry that manages a large amount of data, and in an increasingly interconnected digital society that includes pretty much everyone.
Healthcare is certainly one, and there have...
Big Data Disrupts Credit Applications As We Know Them
Convergence is the latest buzzword in finance, and thanks to the relationship between payments and loans, we are now seeing the emerging point of sale (POS) lending. Just a few short years ago, POS lending...
Questions and strategic objectives of the IoT
The phenomenon of the Internet of Things is in full expansion, both for the multiplication of digital devices on the market and for their objective functionality and usefulness at the service of innovative and...
Startup Outside A Tech Hub? 3 Arguments For It
So you are not in a top startup ecosystem like San Francisco, NYC, London, Beijing, Tel Aviv or Bangalore? Many investors will tell you that your company will suffer in terms of hiring, business...
Libra may be the end for Facebook – Part I
In 2019, Facebook crossed a red line. The company announced the Libra project. Before digging into Libra, let’s get a very brief history lesson on Facebook.
Back in the 2000’s, Mark Zuckerberg, a 23 year...
Three Simple Questions (And One Difficult One) To Ask Before Investing In A Blockchain
There has never been a better time to be learning about blockchain. Between the rate of growth amongst currencies like Bitcoin or Litecoin and the wide-reaching applications outside the financial sector, distributed ledger technologies...
Cloud Made Simple for Undecided Career Change Planners: The Fundamentals
Despite its fundamental role in today’s business, many IT job seekers are reluctant to embrace a career in cloud computing. Sophisticated technical concepts and jargon make it confusing and complicated.
In this article, I use...
Rehumanizing Data and Analytics
I have a bit of a love-hate relationship with social media. I read what others have to say to be pissed off enough to be inspired to write in hopes of stirring up a...
5 Potential Blockchain Use-cases that can save the environment
Blockchain technology has become synonymous with innovation and disruption. While several sectors like healthcare, education, and finance have significantly benefited from blockchain-integration, one of the more promising use-cases may catch you completely by surprise....
Is it possible to regulate AI and do we need such regulation?
There is an ongoing debate about how to regulate artificial intelligence. Lawyers, politicians and business people alike feel that the laws in place are failing to keep up with technological advances. The primary and...
On Artificial Intelligence and Surveillance Capitalism
Intro: From Super-Elixer to Dangerous Dark Art
Big Tech, which is always now: AI-fueled Big Tech, has made shopping, searching, connecting to friends on your preferred platforms astonishingly easy. Which is why the masses, including...
