Clean up your data and you’ll thank me.  Your institution’s data is a valuable asset, if not one of your most valuable assets.  Data is too often neglected and likely a defect-laden hot mess.    Implementing and using AI is enabled and speeded with high quality data. ...

  Background:    I had a wonderfully fulfilling 35-year career at AT&T and Bell Labs. The first 15 years were in the pre-Divestiture Bell System, a regulated monopoly.  The following 20 at AT&T were in an ever more competitive industry.  The Bell System and AT&T still...

Thanks to Len Breslow for turning me on to this one. Key Take-aways — My (perhaps flawed &/or incomplete) view: Americans already live in … and are moving to … places with like-minded people.  A friend had been telling this, but I was very skeptical; it did...

The story’s genesis: I used to tell this story when I was trying to help some of my colleagues, who were very high net worth individuals when it came to technology but below the poverty line when it came to marketing & sales and putting themselves in the Customer’s shoes.    They...