If you missed this article, originally published a year ago in the Deloitte Review, it’s a unique thought leadership piece well worth the read, exploring the intersection of predictive analytics and behavioral economics and the pursuit of persuasion/influence and driving behavioral change. If we want to act on data to get fit or reduce heating
As Silicon Valley fights for talent, universities struggle to hold on to their stars THAT a computer program can repeatedly beat the world champion at Go, a complex board game, is a coup for the fast-moving field...
Over the course of their careers, many employees develop skills and new interests, and move between roles in their organizations. Over time, their movements build pathways between job roles, creating a “map” of what kinds of people...
Traditional business intelligence (and data mining) software does a very good job of showing you where you’ve been. By contrast, predictive analytics uses data patterns to make forward-looking predictions that guide you to where you should go...
PayPal is using advanced predictive data analysis to help protect its users from fraud and preserve the service’s brand. Constant evolution is the key to PayPal’s success. Scam artists continually find new ways to defraud unsuspecting people,...
The pace of change today is so great that no one can reliably predict what the workplace will look like in five years’ time. Companies are figuring out how to manage economic, technological and cultural change in...
A 21st century gold rush is under way — but it isn’t about precious metal, it’s about data. The amount of information coming from digital sources such as blogs, social media, databases, audio, and video continues to...
The hotel and hospitality sector caters to millions of travelers every day, and each one of them checks in with their own set of expectations. Meeting those expectations is the key to getting people to return, and...
Largely unnoticed by their targets, the human resources departments of large corporations are beginning to gather spy-agency-quality intelligence on their current and future employees. The hottest topic in human resources is “predictive analytics,” synthesizing a worker’s traits and...
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