The #COVID19 Driver’s Seat
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...
Category: Knowledge Management
Guest Post: A knowledge management system capable of blinking red
Inattention to critical knowledge is an old problem. Lessons are forgotten, near misses are ignored, caution is dismissed, disasters result. Titanic. Bhopal. AIG. Katrina. Fukushima. And on and on. Knowledge Management (KM) is supposed...
Guest Post: The dirty dozen: twelve ways to fail at effective decision making
In the course of my decision analysis, analytics, and intelligence work for businesses and industry, I have identified a set of common points of failure in a typical decision engineering initiative. These characterize the...
Predictive analytics is not enough
The idea of predictive analytics can seem like magic: how, really, can a computer predict the future? Yet we’ve seen a lot of success based on this advanced technology in recent years, from Netflix...
What’s really frightening about Artificial Intelligence? It’s not what you think.
OK, I’ll admit it. AI scares me. But not for the usual reasons: I’m not too concerned about robots taking over the earth or even the Singularity, as are many of my friends. What does frighten me...
