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Twitter Bio:: Living at the intersection of Innovation, Complexity and Technology. #DecisionMgt
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Let's All Shed Tears For The Crappy Startups That Can't Raise Any More Money

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Dan Lyons is Editor-in-Chief of ReadWrite. Previously, Dan was Technology Editor at Newsweek. Before that he spent a decade at Forbes, covering technology. Dan was the creator of "The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs," a satirical blog written in the persona of Fake Steve Jobs. He has published three novels, written comedy for TV, and published articles for Vanity Fair, Wired, The New York Times Magazine and many others. He has appeared as a guest on CNBC, MSNBC, CNN, BBC, Bloomberg TV, Fox Business News and National Public Radio, and is a frequent speaker at corporate and industry events. His personal site is realdanlyons.com.Here’s some stunning,

Data Is Useless Without the Skills to Analyze It

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Do your employees have the skills to benefit from big data? As Tom Davenport and DJ Patil note in their October Harvard Business Review article on the rise of the data scientist, the advent of the big data era means that analyzing large, messy, unstructured data is going to increasingly form part of everyone's work. Managers and business analysts will often be called upon to conduct data-driven experiments, to interpret data, and to create innovative data-based products and services. To thrive in this world, many will require additional skills.Companies grappling with big data recognize this need. In a new Avanade survey, more than 60 percent