Data Science and Data Science Fiction

Kevin Gray·29 May 2017·Data & Analytics

...Data Science is what Data Scientists really do, but much of the buzz is about Data Science Fiction. Here are a few tips for young people thinking about a career in Data Science. Read More...

 thedigitaltransformationpeople.com· 15 Shares

What does Digital Transformation mean to the Government?

Niall McKeown·24 May 2017·Delivery

...Government ie The Public Sector doesn’t actually care about Digital Transformation but they do care about adding value to their stakeholders: Read More...

 thedigitaltransformationpeople.com· 0 Shares

Evaluating Tech: 10 Observations

Miles Pritchard·22 May 2017·Strategy & Innovation

...Whether you’re evaluating a new CRM platform, a new marketing automation suite or deciding to implement a data management platform, one thing is for sure…technology partnerships can make or break a business. Read More...

 thedigitaltransformationpeople.com· 15 Shares

50 light-bulb moments at LeSS training by Bas Vodde

John Coleman·7 May 2017·Delivery

...In many ways, the journey to Large Scale Scrum is as colossal as the scale of the Golden Gate Bridge. My 2017 goal is to become a certified trainer for Scrum, Nexus, Large Scale Scrum(LeSS), Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®), Enterprise Scrum(ES) by year end. Disciplined Agile potentially in 2018, who knows. Call it my perfection vision, perhaps unattainable but a good North Star. Why?  Because in my work, my clients must really feel that I am independent and that I will support them having educated them on the options, once they make their own decisions. Read More...

 thedigitaltransformationpeople.com· 0 Shares

Scaling-Up – Crossing the internal chasm in corporate innovation

Frank Mattes·2 May 2017·Strategy & Innovation

...Scaling-up – the race is on for companies to find big, explorative or even “disruptive” innovation ideas. ‘Disrupt yourself or someone else will’, it has been said. Almost every company shifts into overdrive to create ‘smart’ products, to turn a product business into a service business, to create new business… Read More...

 thedigitaltransformationpeople.com· 19 Shares

The Innovation Management Theory Evolution Map

Louis Bouwer·2 May 2017·Strategy & Innovation

...The Innovation Management Theory Evolution Map was developed to guide corporate innovation managers to take note of existing fundamental innovation management theories, how it evolved through the past few decades and which theories are best suited to solve specific corporate innovation management challenges. Read More...

 thedigitaltransformationpeople.com· 17 Shares

Amazon’s Four Keys to Success – According to Jeff Bezos

Braden Kelley·2 May 2017·Delivery

...It is not too often that the leader of a Fortune 500 gives you an insight into how their company achieves competitive advantage in the marketplace in a letter to shareholders, instead of launching into a page or two of flowery prose written by the Public Relations (PR) team that works for them. The former is what Jeff Bezos tends to deliver year after year. This year’s letter is particularly interesting.The two key insights in this year’s letter were that: Read More...

 thedigitaltransformationpeople.com· 0 Shares

A Call to Arms for the Future of People Analytics

Max Blumberg·2 May 2017·People & Change

...The time is ripe for the creation of a People Analytics Association. Why? Because there’s almost no point writing this. For over a decade, we’ve promoted the power of People Analytics through blogs, speeches and consultation; but today this blog, along with your own carefully crafted People Analytics articles, will likely be lost in a veritable sea of content – some exceptional, some terrible (the latter of which represents People Analytics as less a science, and more an overly simplistic magic pill for all manner of objectives). Read More...

 thedigitaltransformationpeople.com· 0 Shares

What is Digital Transformation?

Niall McKeown·1 May 2017·The Case For Digital Transformation

...Digital Transformation is how an organisation becomes built to continually change, innovate and reinvent, rather than simply enhance or support the traditional methods of its industry. The word ‘digital’ is a synonym for the pace of change occurring in today’s world, driven by the rapid adoption of technology. Read More...

 thedigitaltransformationpeople.com· 1 Share

Python and Object Oriented Configuration Management: How to succeed in the adoption of DevOps paradigm

Pablo Manuel Garcia Corzo·1 May 2017·Delivery

...The DevOps paradigm is really cool. Everyone wants to deploy their environments with Puppet on top of OpenStack. It brings reproducibility and scalability at a tremendous speed. This is simply awesome and undoubtedly the way to go forward. Almost nobody though will discuss the benefits of adopting a standard DevOps paradigm, which implies a major shift in mindset for most companies, especially Telcos, who have a high moment of inertia. In this article we will describe a success story based on our experience with customers. Read More...

 thedigitaltransformationpeople.com· 0 Shares

Machine & Deep Learning: Learning To Learn

Joseph Dolphin·26 April 2017·Enabling Technologies

...What is Machine Learning? It is akin to feeding data into a system or plotting data onto a graph, and drawing the line of best fit. Keep adding more data and the line of best fit only gets better and better and we learn how to perfect it. The learning is not just to get the line of best fit, but to also understand what features or tasks are being plotted. Read More...

 thedigitaltransformationpeople.com· 26 Shares

The Why, What and How of Data Strategy

Miles Pritchard·19 April 2017·Strategy & Innovation

...What Do You Recommend? Data strategy is complex, it's long-term (hopefully) and it needs to be inherently dynamic and flexible to successfully implement. Not surprising then, that answering a question like “what data strategy do you recommend?” isn’t all that easy these days. Read More...

 thedigitaltransformationpeople.com· 10 Shares