How Enterprise Social Media Can Prevent Disasters
Imagine how different our world would be if man-made oil spills could be prevented entirely? If all oil companies used enterprise social media, this would...
Social Graffiti: Breaking Down Barriers by Writing on Walls
Never before have executives been able to keep such an accurate pulse of their entire organization as today with enterprise social computing. The outdated...
What Do Bananas and Social Computing Have in Common?
This past year's TUCON had some amazing Keynotes; some inspirational, others educational, and of course there where those that were entertaining. But when Chris...
Big Data: Smaller is Better
Big data: keep it small, stupid.
That’s the advice of lead Forrester advanced analytics analyst James Kobielus (@jameskobielus), who says that as data scientists move deeper...
How Big Data Will Change the Travel Industry
The words “useless information” should strike fear in the hearts (actually the wallets) of every company trying to increase revenue and profits.
After all, what’s...
Big Data and the Call for Evidence-based Management
Many discussions around big data are often centered on the sheer volume of the information involved, including the massive quantities of unstructured data that’s...
Using Big Data to Reduce Home Energy
These days (well actually, any day) everyone wants to save a buck or two on heat and electricity. And with winter coming, you’re probably...
How to Think Bigger With Big Data
Boom!
Big data is exploding. And as we've discussed in recent posts, the amount of digital data grows exponentially each year, big data has the...
Four Steps to Success with Big Data
Benjamin Woo (@benwoony), program vice president of worldwide storage systems research and the voice of Big Data for IDC (@IDC) set the tone for...
Big Data Is The Next Frontier For Innovation, Competition and Productivity
Last month I blogged about Big Data challenges and opportunities. This month I want to elaborate on Big Data opportunities. According to research by...