To paraphrase Peter Drucker, information technology tends to focus on the technology, not information. Instead of focusing on more data collection, greater storage capacity or faster data transmission, the objective of IT needs to be giving people the information they need when they need it… Read More
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When to Fear the Sudden Fall
While we like to study trends and predict things forward, sudden shifts are both more dramatic and reason for drama, well, concern.
AI and IISE – Why AI Can’t Do Our Jobs
As an engineer with experience in IT, I’ve watch artificial intelligence grow from spell checkers to the AIs running latent semantic indexing of all content indexed by Google. Use of AI in product design via evolutionary mixing and competition is already being tried. And AI… Read More
Translation Error
It is estimated that our data deluge doubles every year or two. Given all of this information, you’d expect better decisions … but there is a translation error that prevents this from happening. Why? There’s a difficult conundrum. If you lack essential information, akin to… Read More
