Key Takeaways from FinTech Women 2019
While the advantage of technical mastery diminishes, the ability to anticipate challenges and risks based on experience and self-knowledge becomes a new source of personal competitive advantage.
Never Before Have We Had So Much Data. Are We Making Better Decisions?
We have been conditioned to believe that more data leads to better insights, which in turn result in better decisions. But is that really true?
What is an Insight? Example
In my last post I discussed the difference between an insight and an observation, how each required different work, and led to different results. Now I’ll use my journey as a mobile phone consumer over the last several years as an example. Way back in the early...
Research Kit is Awesome – But is More Data Always Better?
Let me start by saying that I think Apple’s Research Kit is great, and can enable us to do great things. However, a lot of the hype I’m hearing has me a little concerned, because it is mainly centered around the idea that getting more data is the key to transforming...
What I learned about Work and Real Life from TGI Fridays
Growing up, we often played the popular board game, The Game of Life. The object of the game is to end with the most money. This is accomplished through a series of various decisions and circumstances, and one thing the game made clear was that higher paying jobs...Respect the Nuance
Its easy to take the given data at face value and the face value is readily available to everyone, competitors and collaborators alike. If we have the discipline to examine the nuances of why the data is what it is, then we can go in directions our competitors may never think of, and thats where we can create our unique value.