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Product Management vs Marketing Dear Talent Doctor, We can’t decide whether our VP of Marketing should be an expert in branding or...

In our current Age of Analytics, there is a danger of focusing on what can be measured, even if it is not central to the matter at hand....

A VP of Sales is arguably the most important and expensive executive hire. Let’s assume you have several candidates who have a long-term...

A new term is being used to describe the current state of our manufacturing economy - Industry 4.0 - in other words, the 4th Industrial...

What factors matter in building a regional technology economy? Two main factors are a critical mass of related businesses and world class...

The health care crisis continues unabated. There are many causes to the continuously expanding cost: new technologies, new medications,...

In 2019, have we passed peak technology freedom enablement? The internet is associated with freedom, particularly, until recently as the...

Five years ago, I reviewed a book by former Microsoft researcher Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, titled “The Distraction Addiction.’’ He described...

Today, in the world of manufacturing and services, lean principles are applied to optimize nearly all large organizations. Until...

You may have noticed that many of your phone apps have sent notices lately updating your privacy terms. This cascade is not a...

The 21st century has quickly become the Analytics Age, revolutionizing industry after industry. What can we learn from industries that...

The computer can’t tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what’s missing is the eyebrows. –...

“I don’t know what a monopoly is until somebody tells me.” — Steve Balmer, former Microsoft CEO The U.S. economy is dominated by three...

"I think statistics go in one ear and out the other. All of us respond to stories more than numbers." — Koren Zailckas As algorithms...

“Yeah, well, you know, that’s just, like, your opinion, man.” – “The Big Lebowski” Analytics has never been sexier in the world of...