Hedgehog Innovation

According to Archilochus, the fox knows many things, but a hedgehog knows one big thing.In his article on AI and the threat to middle class jobs, Larry Elliot focuses on machine learning and robotics.AI stands to be to the fourth industrial revolution …

Pitfalls of Data-Driven

@Jon_Ayre questions whether an organization’s being data-driven drives the right behaviours. He identifies a number of pitfalls.It’s all too easy to interpret data through a biased viewpointData is used to justify a decision that has already been madeD…

Discipline as a Service

In my post on Ghetto Wifi (June 2010), I mentioned a cafe in East London that provided free coffee, free biscuits and free wifi, and charged customers for the length of time they occupied the table.A cafe has just opened in Tokyo for writers, which cha…

From Data to Doing

One of the ideas running through my work on #datastrategy is to see data as a means to an end, rather than an end in itself. As someone might once have written, Data scientists have only interpreted the world in various ways. The point however is …