A pair of smart glasses using duct tape and zip wires that allowed an artist with Lou Gehrig’s disease to draw again. An artificial arm made via 3D printing that brought mobility back to bombing victims in Sudan. A vibrating wristbrand that may be able to stop those with Parkinson’s from trembling. If you have […]
The Six Sigma methodology of improving processes includes, as a first step, capturing the voice of the customer (VOC) and using it as a guideline to provide the best experience and quality. The VOC is essential since it includes both stated and implied requirements. It varies continuously and requires frequent updating. With the rise of […]
The manufacturing environment has always been one in which people often perform tedious, repetitive tasks. If you ask any manufacturing operative about the monotony of quality inspection, sorting or grading, and moving materials or components from A to B, you’ll soon know why these tasks are eminently suitable for automation. However, the reason these activities […]
About 10 years go, long before she took the lead at the Omnia artificial intelligence practice of Deloitte, Shelby Austin was working as a partner in a law firm, reviewing documents and preparing for trial. The documents — all 30,000 of them — were in binders, and they were being divided “relevant,” “privileged” and “hot […]
Companies need to move past using analytics and artificial intelligence to merely inform business decisions and allow the technologies to actually make decisions on their own across all functional areas, according to the director of data science at Samsung. In his keynote at the Big Data Toronto conference on Tuesday, Matthew Fitz suggested enterprises are […]
“Looks like a face. Appears to be male. 26-44 years old. Appears to be sad.” These are the findings of an artificial intelligence application called Rekognition developed by Amazon, which is studying the image of a man attending the recent Canadian Cloud and DevSecOps event in Toronto. When quizzed, the attendee admits that he is, […]
A firm called Next Pathway is offering marketers, sales leaders and other business a short cut to taking advantage of big data and artificial intelligence by alleviating the manual and onerous process of having developers create code to meet their requirements. Headquartered in Toronto and with a recent sales office opened in New York, Next […]
When Deborah Leff was preparing her presentation for IBM Think, she looked online to find the best antonym to the word “insight.” The top results were “ignorance” and “stupidity.” While not exactly an example of data science in action, the findings showed Leff, IBM’s global sales leader of business analytics, the stark difference between those […]
We get to do some pretty cool stuff at B2B News Network, like have a real life conversation with an astrophysicist about conversational intelligence. Claude Théoret from Nexalogy, joined Jen Evans from B2B News Network for a Twitter chat about their product, client work, and being acquired by Datametrex (DM.V). You and I met […]
Poor or inaccurate contact sales and marketing data results in significant losses in revenue and customer retention – both things no business can afford to lose. In addition, implementing a sales contact data solution purely in the spirit of “cost effectiveness” can be a fatal mistake. On the flip side, good sales contact data can […]
Information is dominating all facets of life today making it imperative for companies to understand and use relative information in their operations. It is a straightforward concept, and you should achieve it for your small or midsize company at a fair budget. However, the internet has created a platform where information is both accessed and […]
Content marketing platform company Uberflip was recently on the verge of making an acquisition in the artificial intelligence space, before concluding it needed to develop its own capabilities, its CEO told the TechWeek Toronto audience on Thursday. Speaking in a session on “data intelligence,” Uberflip co-founder Yoav Schwartz did not disclose the name of the […]
Negotiating a B2B deal requires patience. A B2B relationship can be nurtured over the course of weeks, months or even years before the negotiating parties put ink to a contract. As the principal parties get to know each other, business relationships become quite personal. The logical and pragmatic considerations of business blend with the emotional […]
B2B News Network spoke with Alexey Rykhva, CIO of Procter & Gamble Canada, who took over the DXAgents Twitter profile. We asked his thoughts on digital transformation, change and big data, in a Twitter Chat yesterday, in advance of BigData Toronto. Alexey is originally from the Ukraine, and is a believer in business-centric IT, focused […]
Peter Drucker said everything is either marketing or innovation. With digital, the new saying could be that all marketing is content. And it’s not just marketing. We marketers are actually late to the game. Think about the amount of content being created for training, education and HR (as in best practices, not employees) that goes […]
Advanced data analytics, like any other area with massive adoption, is undergoing significant developments and changes. We are going to look at the top trends in advanced analytics that define and shape industries. Increase Advanced Analytics Adoption According to the Big Data and Advanced Analytics Report by Dell, over 71 percent of companies use […]
The explosion of information is accelerating. This can be seen in our everyday use of emails, online searches, text messages, blog posts, and postings on Facebook and YouTube. The amount of data being created and captured is staggering. It is flooding corporate walls and is only getting worse as the next big explosion is already […]
This Preface is reprinted with permission of the author, Eric Siegel, from his book, “Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie, or Die,” revised and updated edition (Wiley, January 2016). *** Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That’s why we call it the present. — Attributed […]
Are you sitting in the same weekly metrics meeting staring at your data, or are you using it? These five steps can take you from observation to action, and results. The tools that are available to the average multidisciplinary marketer do not make this easy. Dashboards and platforms are data-fragmented and immature. By trying to […]
While much of the business world is reeling in the wake of Donald Trump’s election to the U.S. presidency, life — and business — goes on. And so we’re back again with another edition of B2B Trending Conversations, our weekly roundup of who’s talking and what’s trending in the B2B space. This week, we’ll compare inbound and […]
