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Do You Need To Hire A Data Scientist? 

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Is It Time To Hire A Data Scientist? Data and analytics have taken the business world by storm – finally! It’s been a long time coming though many may say they’ve always used data to support decision making. While true for some, the rise of Data Science from the back office to the boardroom conversations […]

Advanced Analytics for Decision Support

At The Core of Marketing Decision Making: Advanced Analytics

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Advanced Analytics is an encompassing term that is used to categorize techniques and technologies that seek to understand what happened in detail or to predict what may happen with an unmatched degree of precision. We use the term to encompass services that include Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, or AI and related technologies. The field of […]

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Curious About AI in Marketing? 7 Critical Questions

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Artificial Intelligence(AI) has recently been integrated into marketing and is still in its early stages. It makes automated decisions based on available data and audience observations or economic trends that impact marketing. By doing so, it enables marketers to gain more insight and understanding of their target audiences. However, a business must comprehend how AI […]

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8 Questions Every Brand or Product Manager Needs to Ask

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The 8 “SIMPLE” questions every data-driven Brand Marketer or Product Manager needs to ask themselves about their strategy in order to build proper tactics.  When it comes to digital marketing & strategy – the best flashlight is a well-formed question. Below are a few “simple questions” that cross both product and business applicability to help […]

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Leadership in 2023 Begins with Advanced Analytics

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Since the advent of Big Data Analytics over a decade ago, the challenge has been to gather the data so that you can see the data and display it in such a way as to allow it to be useful in the day-to-day processes of a business.  Dashboards are very popular for this exercise— and […]

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Leadership vs. Management in Change and Crisis

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There’s a fascinating emerging set of literature on true leadership (versus management) of crises. One of the signal books in this genre is Upstream: The Quest to Solve Problems Before They Happen by Dan Heath. The author explains that true leaders are people whose names you don’t know. Why is that? Because true leaders use tools such […]

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Latent Effects Modeling with AI & Machine Learning

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We’ve been posting opinions and comments that urge marketers to “get over” artificial intelligence (AI). To dive into AI’s veritable treasure house of research tools and insights, instead of circling it warily, for fear of banging into a “disruption” moment. So, I hereby plant the flag of AI for the regular guy (or gal, of […]

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An Artificial Intelligence Glossary of Common Terms

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Developing a basic understanding of use-cases, trends, and applications for Artificial Intelligence (AI) is helpful to understand the context in which AI is deployed. Keep in mind “AI” is sometimes considered too broad to be a distinct “field.” Rather it is a technology “concepts” with clarifying needed to properly frame discussions on the topic. Therefore […]

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Applying AI: Healthcare Enrollment Optimization

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Here’s a case where AI rolled into the ongoing rollout of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). To avoid getting lost in the weeds, let’s just recall that there were big-money battles involving healthcare providers, the Federal government, and the confused, newly ACA-insured and wanted-to-be insured.

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Truth to Marketers: AI is a tool, not THE solution

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Our previous post urged fellow marketers to “get over” the artificial intelligence (AI) hype. To stop thinking it’s all about “disruptive,” high-tech tools on the bleeding edges of the frontier. The VR goggles. The eye-tracking studies. The neuroscience applications. Yes, there are plenty of far edges out there, and we’re often leading them for our […]