As data storage and management becomes less expensive, many organizations are tasked with being “data-driven”. What does this mean in practice? For many, using data to inform important organizational decisions is an important goal....
In artificial intelligence, machine learning, decision intelligence, statistics, and science, we use the word “decision” to mean a lot of things. Let’s tease out some distinctions: Decision Type Name Question answered Primary information Source...
The introduction of the cotton gin wasn’t accompanied by an entire genre of Hollywood movies dedicated to the gin “singularity”. Nor did we usher in Golden Age of telecommunications with blockbuster killer “phone web”...
Right now, getting vaccines “into arms” is the world’s greatest pandemic focus. But everything could change. Says Andy Slavitt, “The headlines we see today…[describe a] massive over-demand and under-supply [of the COVID19 vaccine]…it could...
Are you thinking: “I’ve heard that AI can provide some value to my organization?” but wondering where to start? You might be a CIO or other technical leader, looking to avoid being left in...
I caught COVID19 in March, a few weeks after breaking my arm badly enough to need surgery. I made it through, but along the way, and with the perspective afforded by a lot of...
In Part 2 of this article, I described why it’s particularly challenging for people to take the right actions in the face of the coronavirus. Now I’ll show you the solution. The solution “…The...
In Part 1 of this article, I described the general problem of making decisions in complex environments, along with a decision I made in the face of the coronavirus. Here, I’ll show you how...
“Democracy depends on an informed populace. Yet the world is now a complex system, so we must democratize technology that helps us make good decisions, despite the complexity. This is now possible, and just...
In Part 2 of this article, I explained that, without careful thought, intervention in a complex situation will, more often than not, lead to unintended consequences. If we don’t lift our game, I promise...
