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Customer intent is a treasure trove of actionable data hiding in plain sight

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By 2025, smart workflows and seamless interactions among humans and machines will be as standard as the corporate balance sheet, and most employees will use data to optimize nearly every aspect of their work, predicts McKinsey & Company.

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You Don’t Need to Be a Silicon Valley Startup to Have a Network-Based Strategy

Harvard Business

For most companies intellectual property is something that sits on their balance sheet. Or it could be indirectly, as Opower does in giving people benchmarking data on energy usage to foster conservation and efficiency. Everyone on the leadership team has a role to play in making this pivot. Intellectual capital.

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Reflections on 2013; What's Important, What's Not? What's Ahead?

MishTalk

Had I suggested in 2007 that the Fed balance sheet expansion of $75 billion a month would have been considered "tightening" people would have thought I was nuts. There is no clear leadership in the movement. At long last, the Fed has finally started to taper. Here we are. The broad U.S.