Recently, I caught up with a friend that I have known for 30 years. Today, we are both raising our children. In the 1980’s, we were teenagers in Florida collecting football and baseball cards, going to coin shops to find “rare” or different foreign coins, and of course we were listening to ...
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Lessons from Collecting – What Happens When We Don’t Own?
With the 2023 NFL season underway, I want to share the changes that I most recommend for improving the NFL. Many of these would make the game more exciting and add strategy to the game.
Strategy and Rule Changes:
Goal Line On Side Possession: If a team wants the ball after a kickoff, let them ...
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Changes to Make the NFL More Exciting!
We are now more reliant than ever on digital systems to manage and control physical systems. We enjoy using systems like Ring to manage the front door and Nest to manage the HVAC system. Even my irrigation system has a digital interface and an app that makes turning on the sprinklers a breeze. ...
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AI and Digital Systems Failure = Arrests and Big Expenses at Hertz
The wave of Spanglish has hit advertisers in recent years. Dos Equis invites its customers to “Keep it Interesante,” while taco fans at Taco Bell “Live Más.”
Home Depot and other retailers have adopted a near bilingual policy in stores. Smart move!
Hispanic ...
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Is Your Business Capturing the Hyper Growth in the US Hispanic Market?
Companies often grapple with the challenges of respecting customer privacy. Although most firms do not seek to cause or do harm, data breaches, inadvertent misuse of data, and unauthorized publishing of data seem to ultimately happen. Data on a social media site, on a shopping site, or from your gym...
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Is Your DNA Privacy Protected? – Probably Not – Read Why
With the college football in full swing, it is worth a look to see how the teams stack-up, not based on rankings, but based on fan loyalty. Big Data and Data Visualization help us with this and lead to some interesting insights. College football also offers us a great opportunity to look at the Big ...
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College Football – Data on Who is a Fan – Are you a Fan?
Everywhere you look there is mention of “Big Data.” But what business people care most about is turning big data into big profits. This is the focus of Russell Walker’s book From Big Data to Big Profits: Success with Data and Analytics. Walker examines the evolving nature of big data and how ...Continue reading Harvard Business Review Webinar: From Big Data to Big Profits
Risk Predictions for the New Year and Interesting Business Cases in 2016 With 2016 just about a week old, I would like to share some risk issues that are interesting to consider in 2016. Federal Reserve Interest Rate Increase Although delayed many times, the Federal Reserve did finally increase the ...Continue reading Risk Predictions for the New Year and Interesting Business Cases in 2016
Lessons on Big Data, Risk, and the Vertical Integration of Wearables and Startups It is amazing how quickly the world of health sensors and wearables has developed. In just a few years, we have seen the wearable market explode with Fitbit, Jawbone, and Apple commanding healthy shares of the overall ...Continue reading Lessons on Big Data, Risk, and the Vertical Integration of Wearables and Startups
Learning from Hurricanes: Big Data Analytics, Risk, & Data Visualization This year, Florida has experienced its 10th consecutive year without a hurricane. It is the longest period without a hurricane strike in modern times and one more remarkable considering that Florida’s more then 1200 miles...Continue reading Learning from Hurricanes: Big Data Analytics, Risk, & Data Visualization
Understanding China’s One-Child Policy Shift: Big Demographic and Economic Changes Ahead Today, China announced that it is abandoning its 35-year policy of limiting families to only one child. This policy has become a demographic experiment unmatched in the history of the world. Owing to this ...Continue reading Understanding China’s One-Child Policy Shift: Big Demographic and Economic Changes Ahead
Risk Management Leadership Lesson: The Value of Trust in Operations In business and life, we grow to expect certain things. Namely, our society expects companies to produce products that are safe and reliable. We go to Yelp and rail against restaurants that do not meet our expectation for service. ...Continue reading Risk Management Leadership Lesson: The Value of Trust in Operations
