Posts Tagged ‘Business’

5 Ways to Facilitate Failure

Failure is appealing as a stepping stone along the path to innovation, but it’s very scary in practice—especially when you can’t yet see where the path is leading. We’d like to suggest the following five guidelines as a place to start.

The Venn Diagram of Data Strategy

When it comes to data strategy, many people read the “data” part and automatically dump the topic in the “technical” bucket.

5 Reasons Why Spark Matters to Business

It’s been hard to miss Apache Spark in the last year. Many systems integrators, including ourselves, have also been enthusiastic about it.

What Your Board of Directors Wants to Know About Big Data

I recently spoke about “Unlocking Business Opportunity from Big Data” to a group of former CEOs and senior business executives. Here are some questions they had.

Why You Need a Data Strategy

This is a great time for big data in business.

One Year Later, Observations on the Big Data Market

We recently celebrated our first birthday here at Silicon Valley Data Science.

Building the Experimental Enterprise

What does it mean to be data-driven? It’s not about finding analytical fairy dust that you can sprinkle to make everything better.

Data Strategy in a World of Big Data

Silicon Valley Data Science has designed a new method to create a data strategy to overcome limitations of conventional approaches.

Successful Data Teams are Agile and Cross-Functional

A key element of Silicon Valley software product delivery teams is an agile delivery methodology—oil to the water of firm fixed price contracts.