Data, AI, & Machine Learning

GE global software chief William Ruh discusses the combined power of analytics and sensors.

Bruno Aziza is a self-professed big data nerd. His title at data analytics company SiSense: Vice President of Worldwide Marketing & ; Data Geek. His LinkedIn profile photo is of a guy displaying a t-shirt hidden under his dress shirt, Superman style, emblazoned with the words (you guessed it): Big Data Nerd. Aziza’s credentials, both as a nerd and a thought leader, are on the mark. Prior to SiSense, he ran data analytics programs at Microsoft, Apple and Business Objects (now a SAP company). He is the co-author of two books in the business analytics space, one of them the best-selling tome, Drive Business Performance: Enabling a Culture of Intelligent Execution. He is a fellow at the Advanced Performance Institute, an independent advisory group specializing in organizational performance. In a conversation with Renee Boucher Ferguson, Data & ; Analytics contributing editor at MIT Sloan Management Review, Aziza talks about the burgeoning role of data analytics in today’s organizations, what it takes to be successful in utilizing data and analytics effectively (in a word: culture) and the role of innovation in data-driven organizations.

An Interview with Anthony Goldbloom, CEO of Kaggle.

Remember geography lessons in school, painstakingly memorizing the longest rivers, cultures of various regions, the state capitals?

As PayPal moves to increase its market share, global business analytics will play a pivotal role.

Data-savvy organizations are using analytics to innovate — and to gain competitive advantage.

The Fall 2012 issue of MIT Sloan Management Review features a number of articles about how companies can use data to win at business.

Keeping track of data and creating value from it may require more than technology.

How do the insights from big data differ from what managers generate from traditional analytics?

The rapid growth of data creates business opportunities — but only if IT and management work together.