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Neil Movold

Realtime Decisions: Data is no Good without Sensemaking - 0 views

  • It is sensemaking that is needed, a way of pulling together disparate data sources to provide meaningful output.
  • Business intelligence/analytics tools need to cut through the data and understand the core meanings and implications.
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    We are swamped with data - even our movements are tracked by mobile networks, and stored. Our web tracks are everywhere and our purchasing habits both online and offline are fully traceable. Businesses and security agencies are swamped with data, and yet there is widespread dissatisfaction about query tools and data analytics. Ask the right questions and you will get the right answers. That's all well and good with SQL, but it has failed us. Knowledgebase tools have failed us too.
Neil Movold

Better Insights Make Better Leaders - 0 views

  • Today, leaders that embrace analytics are outperforming their competition—and the gap is widening. They extract better insights from the big data that continues to pour from all sources. These insights help them perform better and make faster decisions. Analytics is changing the nature of how businesses and governments work. Leaders and organizations that don’t integrate analytics into every aspect of their operations will get left behind.
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    The world today is filled with information. This proliferation makes it quite overwhelming to make good sense of "big data" that is continuously flowing in from a variety of new sources. In the past, the way to get things done was to keep data close, using small teams to sift through it. But now, people are used to having information at their fingertips. They're accustomed to sifting through it and coming up with new solutions, getting insights in unexpected ways.
Neil Movold

Sentiment Analysis Takes Front Seat - semanticweb.com - 0 views

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    "Sentiment analysis is one of the facets of text analytics that can discern the softer or intentional components of a report, an e-mail or other communication.
Neil Movold

Why Big Data and Business Intelligence Are Like One Direction - 0 views

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    "The sensational rise of Big Data within the reporting and analytics realm resembles an uncanny likeness to the escalating popularity of bothersome big-haired British boy 'band', One Direction."
Neil Movold

MIT's Thomas Malone on Collective Intelligence - 0 views

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    "Thomas Malone, director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence,  is one of the leading thinkers in the realm of anticipating how new technologies will transform the way work is done and leaders lead. His 2004 book, The Future of Work: How the New Order of Business Will Shape Your Organization, Your Management Style, and Your Life, helped thousands of executives and would-be executives see their organizations, and themselves, in startling new ways. As a result, many organizations are becoming more collaborative and democratic. Now, Malone is exploring how social business, data analytics and cognitive computing will transform organizations once again. Here, he talks about the revolution that is coming."
Neil Movold

Next-Generation Ecosystems - 0 views

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    Slides from my keynote this afternoon in Paris at the Enterprise 2.0 SUMMIT. Overview of where social business is, what the macro trends are, and the story about consumerization, big data, analytics, and much more.
Neil Movold

Realtime Decisions: Data is no Good without Sensemaking - 0 views

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    We are swamped with data - even our movements are tracked by mobile networks, and stored. Our web tracks are everywhere and our purchasing habits both online and offline are fully traceable. Businesses and security agencies are swamped with data, and yet there is widespread dissatisfaction about query tools and data analytics. Ask the right questions and you will get the right answers. That's all well and good with SQL, but it has failed us. Knowledgebase tools have failed us too.
Neil Movold

Gamification And The Power Of Influence | Fast Company - 0 views

  • Gamification offers a means of applying the benefits of social engagement directly to your properties
  • Gamification is fundamentally an analytics challenge
  • The Behavior Analytics found within a smart gamification platform provide significant insight regarding what users are doing across your community
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    In any industry, the need to manage your brand's community is pressing. Companies have invested significant resources into building community on social networks, but as Facebook and other social media sites continue to block access to your user data, smart marketers and business leaders are realizing that the real value of social engagement is found on their own web properties and applications. Gamification offers a means of applying the benefits of social engagement directly to your properties. It is a proven business strategy that enables businesses to influence the behaviors of your entire community, and exceed your user-driven business objectives.
Neil Movold

Discovery and the Age of Insight - 0 views

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    "Discovery is the most important business capability in the emerging Age of Insight - it's the missing ingredient that makes Big Data a source of value for businesses and people. The Language of Discovery is an essential tool for providing discovery capability, whether at the scale of designing a single discovery application, determining the value proposition of a new product or service, or managing a strategic portfolio of technology and business initiatives. This presentation outlines the Age of Insight, and suggests deep structural and historic precedents visible in the Age of Reason, especially in the central parallels between Natural Philosophy and the emerging discipline of Data Science. We then review the language of discovery, and consider widely visible examples of products and services that demonstrate the language. We review our own usage of the framework as an analytical and generative toolkit for providing discovery capability, and share best practices for employing this perspective across a variety of levels of need."
Neil Movold

Accidental Architectures and the Future of Intelligent Networks - 0 views

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    "Not everything happens for a reason in the world of information management. Not every table or field in a database got where it wound up via some master plan. More often than not, a company's information architecture has grown and evolved organically, like a sort of digital mycelium, spreading underground for years, ultimately providing the infrastructure for all manner of analytical insights to blossom somewhere down the line. The obvious casualties of these "accidental architectures" (as companies like EMC and Talend are calling them) are the elusive goals of clarity and certainty. That's why residential construction engineers take a vastly more disciplined approach when working with their architect counterparts. You wouldn't want an accidental architecture for your three-story home, would you? No one in their right mind would want any such thing."
Neil Movold

Tips For Using Critical Thinking For Business Success - 0 views

  • Any aspect of your daily life – most importantly your projects, business, or career – can be helped by critical thinking. You just need to practice it constantly. What’s Critical Thinking? Your brain thinks diversely. It can be affected by various factors too, plus the problem of relationships, for example, exactly what the heart says usually overwhelms exactly what the mind suggests.
  • In business, problem solving skills often war with instinct. Critical thinking can be a method that seeks to deal with facts derived by experience, rationalization, examination and other methods.
  • Understand the Distinction between Fact and Fiction
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  • Always Verify the origin
  • Make it a point critical thinking skills to withhold judgment until someone offers you documentary evidence and hard proof for your information youre focused on.
  • do not let pride or ego to influence your situation
  • If you wish to be a great critical thinker, you have to remember that gaining the best facts – and not having the winning argument – is your goal.
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    Any aspect of your daily life - most importantly your projects, business, or career - can be helped by critical thinking. You just need to practice it constantly. What's Critical Thinking? Your brain thinks diversely. It can be affected by various factors too, plus the problem of relationships, for example, exactly what the heart says usually overwhelms exactly what the mind suggests.
Neil Movold

Cognitive Computing: When Computers Become Brains - 0 views

  • The human brain integrates memory and processing together, weighs less than 3 lbs, occupies about a two-liter volume, and uses less power than a light bulb.  It operates as a massively parallel distributed processor.  It is event driven, that is, it reacts to things in its environment, uses little power when active and even less while resting.  It is a reconfigurable, fault-tolerant learning system.  It is excellent at pattern recognition and teasing out relationships.
  • A computer, on the other hand, has separate memory and processing.  It does its work sequentially for the most part and is run by a clock.  The clock, like a drum majorette in a military band, drives every instruction and piece of data to its next location — musical chairs with enough chairs.  As clock rates increase to drive data faster, power consumption goes up dramatically, and even at rest these machines need a lot of electricity.  More importantly, computers have to be programmed.  They are hard wired and fault prone.  They are good at executing defined algorithms and performing analytics.
  • Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics (SyNAPSE)
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    Cognitive computing, as the new field is called, takes computing concepts to a whole new level.  Earlier this week, Dharmendra Modha, who works at IBM's Almaden Research Center, regaled a roomful of analysts with what cognitive computing can do and how IBM is going about making a machine that thinks the way we do.  His own blog on the subject is here.
Neil Movold

Gamification Is More Than A Game For Businesses - Forbes - 0 views

  • My premise is that the term gamification doesn’t accurately depict the benefits a business can achieve.
  • The truth is that game mechanics have been used in business for some time. For example, companies currently use leader boards for sales and loyalty programs for customers. We are already using other terms that offer some of the same benefits such as engagement strategies, game mechanics, advocacy, and rewards.
  • Why do we care about gamification?
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  • Duggan says it’s bigger than gamification because it incorporates all the ways we can measure and influence behavior.
  • Badgeville describes it as encompassing trends such as game mechanics, big data, identity, analytics, reputation, social, community and collaboration. BLM is the process of measuring and influencing behavior to meet your business goals.
  • behavior lifecycle management (BLM)
  • gamification provides benefits to almost any firm but you need to focus on building the experience and adapting the experience over time to keep your constituents engaged.
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    Gamification is the latest buzzword on the street. It ranked a keynote panel session at Enterprise 2.0 in November and it was one of two main topics discussed at the recent Institute for Social, Search and Mobile Marketing (ISSMM) K1 Executive Roundtable.  
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