Once Dorothy and her colleagues made the journey to OZ, they quickly found out that there was no there, there (every now and then, one must throw in some Gertrude Stein).  The Wizard simply told her what she really should have known all along.   That classic is about self-reliance, and the ability to differentiate, understanding the real value of what is already there–and the real range of possibilities.  Dor...

This year there were several innovations in fintech that have represented true industry disruption. Each of these technologies has the potential for large scale disintermediation as they mature–and perhaps more importantly—offer even greater synergies as they combine.

Overall, fintech firms have a velocity advantage with most of these technologies, since the early focus on foundational data quality and data st...

You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data.”

– Daniel Keys Moran

The term Big Data is probably a misnomer by now, given the breadth of global data proliferation.  Moore’s law used to be the oft cited benchmark around processors.  That was then.  While impressive, overall data growth has become the more pertinent benchmark in today’s world—perhaps Massively Big Data shoul...