I am speaking at the AI Innovation Summit in San Fransisco later this month (https://analyticsevent.com/) on this topic. Here is the outline of what I am planning to cover. Would be great to have your feedback - nothing like crowdsourcing! AI in the Enterprise Step out of the giddy enthusiasm about all things AI in... Continue Reading →
Creating a culture of Experimentation: Let Data lead the way
Management jargon like ‘Extreme Experimentation’, ‘Fail Fast’ have been around for some time now. Much of this thinking and consequently, success has come from the software industry. But once you step outside the Silicon Valley, you will find hard pressed to find successful instances of experimentation translating to actual shareholder value. In my years of... Continue Reading →
Postcard from Greece: What can History teach us?
Just got back from Greece after a great one-week family vacation. Greece is one of the few places in the world where they say, you can feel an ancient civilization come to life - and that turned out to be true, notwithstanding the tourists who have overrun the country. While there was plenty to learn,... Continue Reading →
How would Socrates do as a Problem Solver?
This blog is dedicated to Socrates - and the method of getting to the essence of a problem by relentlessly working to strip the noise and focusing on the real ‘Why’ behind a problem. Do we always have the time and the ability to stay at a problem until clarity emerges? Moreover, in the quest... Continue Reading →
Building a world-class Problem Solving team
In my role as Head of Data Science and Analytics, the single most important problem that I am trying to solve is: What does a world-class team look like? How should you build and more importantly, sustain such a team? It is always best to start with a few basic axioms (I call them so... Continue Reading →