Why are SMEs still locked out of public sector contracts while the big boys keep failing?

Romy Hughes·19 July 2018·Strategy & Innovation

...Despite numerous initiatives to improve value-for-money and support growing businesses by bringing more SMEs into the supply chain, many vital public services are still being awarded to the same handful of major contractors who are either failing to meet their obligations again and again, or are being driven out of… Read More...

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How do you create a GDPR culture?

Romy Hughes·19 July 2018·Cyber Security

...So, you’ve read all the “Top 10 tips for GDPR” articles you can get your hands on, and you’ve invested in the latest GDPR-compliant tech, but how do you ensure your people don’t simply work around it and risk landing your organisation with… Read More...

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Digital’s BIG Short

Kevin Adema·18 July 2018·Customer Engagement

...Thanks to the digital transformation, Marketing’s bubble is about to pop and, just like the housing and financial crash of 2008, nobody’s paying attention. In 2008, the U.S. financial and housing markets experienced unprecedented crises fueled by an asset bubble of sub-prime mortgages, collateralized debt obligations, credit-default swaps and mortgage-backed… Read More...

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Statistics for Funky Data

Kevin Gray·18 July 2018·Data & Analytics

...The Generalized Linear Model is a huge family of methods widely-used by statisticians. It is typically abbreviated as GLM but is much more than the standard linear regression and ANOVA covered in basic stats courses. That GLM – the General Linear Model – is a subset of this larger family… Read More...

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When you get back from holiday, will your business be where you left it?

Phil Darby·17 July 2018·Strategy & Innovation

...Any day now, most business leaders along with the majority of their employees will be heading off on holiday. If that includes you, have you given a thought to whether your business will still be there when you get back? You may think this is a bit extreme, but if… Read More...

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How CDOs View Data Ethics: Corporate Conscience or More Regulations

Ronald van Loon·16 July 2018·Data & Analytics

...We really are in the midst of a data revolution. With a huge amount of data being generated every day, organizations in the current world are encircled left, right, and center by data and the analytic tools that are required for handling it. Leveraging this data has given companies unprecedented… Read More...

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Keeping Physical Retail In-Stock

Tony D'Onofrio·16 July 2018·Customer Engagement

...Retail is not dying. Today’s consumers are being presented by an increasing number of shopping options. Online versus in-store engagement trends are converging and technology is increasingly the differentiating element. A recent IHL research study titled “Out-of-Stock, Out of Luck – How Retailers Alienate Customers and Lose… Read More...

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The Dual Company

Rod Collins·16 July 2018·Strategy & Innovation

...The heavyweight fighter Mike Tyson once famously quipped, “Everybody has a plan, until they get punched in the face.” While having a plan is better than not having one, the sage advice implicit in Tyson’s observation is that, in the end, it isn’t plans that separate the winners from the… Read More...

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Delivering Pizza to the Homeless

Braden Kelley·16 July 2018·Strategy & Innovation

...Innovation can come from a number of different potential sources of inspiration and insight. The most typical source of course is understanding customer needs. This is the source for the whole design thinking movement, but there are still a number of other potential sources of inspiration and insight for… Read More...

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9 things you learn when working in a startup

Sreeraman Thiagarajan·16 July 2018·People & Change

...As a Co-founder of a software company and as a mentor for Google Launchpad, I often get asked on how to build a great culture in a startup. Most entrepreneurs are so busy building a product that they miss building a company. It doesn’t have to be so hard. At… Read More...

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How to Thrive in Uncertainty: The Future of Great Work is Finally Here

Jeff Wellstead·15 July 2018·People & Change

...I grew up on Wall Street and find myself watching the headlines below like most people read the sports pages. But lately it’s fatiguing me and creating a bit of dystopian depression in my mind – tainting how I look at the world. I find I’m becoming distracted more easily, start worrying… Read More...

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Random Thoughts on Marketing Research, Statistics and Data Science (July 16, 2018)

Kevin Gray·15 July 2018·Data & Analytics

...My opinions. Nothing more. Statisticians make use of dozens of probability distributions, and the normal distribution is but one. Some methods are entirely data-driven and truly non-parametric. Distributional assumptions are sometimes criticised as weaknesses of statistics or as burdensome. In reality, they allow us to use both small and big data… Read More...

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