With the 2024 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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Fan Friendly Changes for the NFL & Super Bowl Prediction!
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!
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Your Business and the Hispanic Economy – Super Growth Opportunities!
Recently, I was reflecting on the thousands of students that have been in my classes, at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, and now at Foster School of Business, University of Washington. Over the past 18 years, over 4000 students took my very popular Analytics Consulting ...
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Let’s Connect – No Really – Tell Me What’s On Your Mind!
The first touches of Autumn are detectable in the Pacific Northwest. In the coming weeks, the maples will redden to welcome many students back to campus, including thousands of students for the first time. It is a time for growth, exploration, challenges, difficulty, and discovery. It can bring ...
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Back to School in 2024
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!
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
