Coronavirus and the hazards of experts

Rod Collins·21 October 2020·Strategy & Innovation

...In his best-selling book Moneyball, Michael Lewis tells the true story of how the Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane built a competitive team on a very limited budget by defying the conventional wisdom of baseball experts. Instead, Beane relied upon an unconventional sophisticated data analytics approach to scout and evaluate… Read More...

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Start-ups: your most valuable asset in the long run will be the trust of your customers

JC GAILLARD·5 December 2019·Cyber Security

...Bake it in from the start: “Moving fast and breaking things” will become a thing of the past as customers and investors take security and privacy more and more seriously. It seems that security is still – at best – an afterthought for most start-ups as they go about building… Read More...

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A faster path to intelligence

Rod Collins·28 November 2019·Enabling Technologies

...In his recent book, Life After Google, George Gilder challenges the notion that artificial intelligence (AI) will ever be able to compete with human intelligence. He rejects the idea embraced by many technology enthusiasts that the development of AI will lead to a new form of super-intelligence that will be superior… Read More...

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How Artificial Intelligence will transform human thinking

Rod Collins·21 October 2019·Enabling Technologies

...Last season’s NFL playoffs are memorable for one of the worst non-calls in the league’s 100-year history when three officials missed a blatant pass interference foul and arguably sent the wrong team to the Super Bowl. In the subsequent days leading up to the championship game, the NFL Commissioner Roger… Read More...

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Social Media’s missed opportunity Part I: How we got here

Rod Collins·25 October 2018·Customer Engagement

...One of the great ironies of the digital revolution is that, while the world has been transformed into a hyper-connected community where geography is no longer a barrier to instant collaborations across a wide diversity of people, social media platforms have managed to divide us into a collection of fractious… Read More...

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Why Research Is Hard…And What To Do About It

Kevin Gray·12 September 2018·Data & Analytics

...Many marketing researchers will confess that our industry has never been very adept at marketing itself, ironic though this may be. Another matter less talked about concerns the second word in our industry title – research. Marketing research, including newer methods, can be quite slipshod. “But it doesn’t have to… Read More...

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Digital Transformation – Part X: The Dawn of the Second Human Epoch

Rod Collins·17 April 2018·The Case For Digital Transformation

...This is the final blog in this ten-part series on Digital Transformation. Throughout this series, we have learned that Digital Transformation is much more than a technology revolution. It is arguably the most consequential socioeconomic revolution in human history.  We are at the beginning of an unprecedented inflection point in… Read More...

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Digital Transformation – Part IX: Moving Beyond the Hazards of Human Bias

Rod Collins·8 March 2018·The Case For Digital Transformation

...In 2002, Daniel Kahneman was awarded the prestigious Nobel prize in economics. This feat was even more impressive because Kahneman is a psychologist. Although he was recognized by the Economist in 2015 as the seventh most influential economist in the world, Kahneman holds no formal academic credentials in the… Read More...

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Digital Transformation – Part VI: An Evolutionary Leap in Human Intelligence

Rod Collins·4 January 2018·The Case For Digital Transformation

...“May you live in interesting times,” is an old English expression whose enigmatic meaning can make people wonder whether they’ve been offered a blessing or a curse. Regardless of the apparent well-wisher’s intentions, interesting times are oftentimes a blessing for some and a curse for others. The difference depends upon how capable and how fast people are in recognizing and embracing new ideas and new opportunities. Read More...

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Why Perseverance might not be such a good thing…

Roderic Yapp·17 November 2017·People & Change

...Perseverance is a good thing. It is a value that drives us towards success and achievement helping us to overcome challenges along the way. But it has the potential to trap us in mental prisons. Understand this and you’ll be able to spot where perseverance and determination can trip you up… Read More...

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Cyber Security: How do you build a transformational dynamic?

JC GAILLARD·17 November 2017·Cyber Security

...At the end of a keynote speech I gave at the excellent CIOWaterCooler LIVE! Event in London on 28th September 2017 on security organisation, governance and creating the dynamics for change around cyber security, I was asked a challenging question on which I would like to elaborate... Read More...

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The CISO and the Business

JC GAILLARD·21 August 2017·Cyber Security

...Keep appointing pure technologists in CISO roles and you’ll never win. The Wannacry ransomware attack that affected so many large firms in May 2017 led to a number of animated discussions amongst InfoSec communities.       Read More...

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