Author Archives: Joseph Dennis Kelly
Learning From Kublai Khan: 5 Ways Advanced Analytics Can Help Organizations
Leaders have much to learn from Kublai Khan’s military failures. When the khan rose to power in 1260, the Mongol Empire was a much-feared power that ruled over the world’s largest-ever sovereignty [...]
Reclaim Your Edge: How Advanced Analytics Is Helping Macy’s Transform The Customer Experience
The traditional balance of business power has shifted. Today, the advantage rests – literally, through mobile devices – in the buyer’s hands. Consumers worldwide are getting more for their money. Because they can easily tap the Web, through their desktops, notebooks, and smartphones, they can [...]
The Soft Benefit of Big Data Analytics: Thinking Differently
It’s an exciting time we live in. New markets are opening, innovative applications are reshaping the IT landscape, and social shifts are driving changes once considered unimaginable. Adapting to these transformations requires a new approach to seeing and thinking. Investing …
As Big Data Expands, A Majority Doubts its Value
If you’re like many of my friends and colleagues (globally connected netizens), your days are filled using technology unimaginable fifteen years ago. Every day, we work and play using laptops, tablets, smartphones, GPS-enabled vehicles, MP3 players, 3-D handheld games, Web-connected …
Outsmart the Hackers
Everyone is susceptible. Every day, nearly every organization, large and small, is hit with dozens if not thousands of attacks by digital insurgents. What’s troubling is that many hackers are needlessly successful, easily cracking the latest, greatest versions of our …
Securing Mobile Devices: Protecting Data While Enabling Productivity
How did previous generations ever get anything accomplished? Over the past twenty-five years, the span of a single human generation, we have transformed our communication and workplace behaviors. Complex activities that once may have taken weeks to finish can now …
Empowering Retailers: 9 Tactics for Leveraging Big Data
Like the Universe, the Web is continuously expanding. Online users are not simply engaging each other more easily, they have become data generators. In this role, they are transforming the global economy. Today, we can find and purchase every kind …
Predictive and Proactive: Leveraging Advanced Analytics
For centuries, humans traveled the Earth’s seas, guided only by their experience in reading the stars, the temperature, and the currents. Rarely could they anticipate the unfolding often life-and-death situations they were steering into. Today, our ships travel the world …
Empowering Teams To Innovate Through Principled Leadership
History is rich with tales of highly skilled teams that failed and equally competent teams that thrived. Which factor often differentiated those that excelled from those that floundered? Team empowerment. During my 20+ years working on editorial, communications, and marketing …
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