Harnessing the Power of Big Data
The concept of big data is not new. We live in a world where each person creates endless data streams, and each digital product and service creates waves of information trailing behind it; the...
View ArticleThe Internet: A Resource for the Benefit of the Many
The internet is a global resource for the benefit of the many. -Ram Mohan The Executive Vice President and CTO at Afilias, Ram Mohan is an influential stakeholder in how the internet is organized and...
View ArticleDigital Content – Will You Cut the Cord?
As the internet has gotten extremely fast, more and more customers have begun to stream digital content from their personal devices – from PCs, to mobile phones and tablets. Indeed, the natural...
View ArticleDigging for Data in Your Own Backyard
A common misconception in the research phase of a consulting project is that “data” and support for a project’s hypotheses needs to come in the form of a specific numerical representation. The...
View ArticleBig Data or Big Brother?
As “Minority Report”-esque as it sounds, the capabilities of NYC’s new Domain Awareness System (DAS) are impressive. The system enables law enforcement a comprehensive view of the city through various...
View ArticleDisgruntled Rumblings of a Cord-Cutter
I admitted in a previous post that I am a cord-cutter. That’s right. I no longer pay for cable TV through my cable provider. However, I’m still stuck on internet charges (how else would I be able to...
View ArticlePhilly’s Chief Data Officer “Throws Gauntlet Down,” Calling for More...
We all know it: the tech scene in Philly is hot right now. And I’m not just talking about the N3RD Street tech start-up corridor in old city. I’m talking about our entire city government. Through MBA...
View ArticleCenter for Design and Innovation (cD+i) launches annual #DesignWeekChallenge
View as slideshow This year’s Design Week Challenge hosted over 100 students from Fox School of Business, Philadelphia University, University of the Arts, and Crossroads Academy highschool. Numerous...
View ArticleRubbing Elbows with the Finest @ Fox
Shameless plug alert … I attend Temple University. I am a second year, full time MBA student concentrating in Information Technology Management (I guess you could have figured this out from this blog…)...
View ArticleProcess Improvement and Furniture Delivery
When you’re in a class dedicated to evaluating processes, it’s difficult to not look at the world as one tangled mess of interwoven processes. Today for example: a complaint. At least this is NOT...
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