Big Data
Jeopardy!, Game Theory, and Data
Everyone can use new data and strategies, often with amazing results.
Phil Simon
Phil Simon is probably the world's leading independent expert on workplace collaboration and tech. He is a frequent keynote speaker and the award-winning author of 14 books, most recently The Nine.
Big Data
Data and Politics
We are using data and data visualizations used to advance agendas.
Analytics
Analytics Guarantee Nothing
Even Moneyball acolytes make mistakes.
Big Data
Dilbert and Big Data
A few funnies on the use–er, misuse–of data in the office.
Book Reviews
Left Brain, Right Stuff by Phil Rosenzweig
An essential read on decision making.
Big Data
The Quest for Better Decisions
Picking a subtitle for a book is never easy. Here's why I went this way.
Analytics
Visualizing Fraud at Enron
A new way to detect potential corporate malfeasance in e-mails.
Platforms
How Platform Thinking Can Improve Healthcare
Healthcare is ripe for the very type of disruption that platforms can effect.
Management
The Controversial Case of Marissa Mayer
Thoughts on one of the most prominent female CEOs today.
Big Data
Introduction to The Visual Organization
Here's a longer sneak preview of the book.
Big Data
A Word to the Big Data Skeptics
Cynics are everywhere. Are they right?
Platforms
2014: Year of the Platform Revolution?
Is this the year that every company embraces platform thinking?
Communication
When A/V Issues Attack
Talks rarely go off without a hitch. Don't act like Michael Bay.
Communication
What's Inhibiting Employee Productivity?
Are we missing that one über-useful tool? Nonsense.
Platforms
Evernote's Platform Struggles
As the company is learning, building a platform is much easier said than done.
Communication
Why I Don't Blog Every Day
Just because you can doesn't mean that you should.
Communication
The Perils of the Single Sentence
A good general rule on how to write and speak more clearly.
Book Reviews
Books I Read in 2013
Looking back on my reading list for the year.
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