I was a Boy Scout. Since 1907 the motto of the global Scouting program has been, “Be Prepared”. Yet the 2023 Scout Jamboree was woefully unprepared for a myriad of severe weather-related issues that befell it in South Korea in early August. Continue reading
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are measurable values related to essential business objectives.
A KPI provides a means to monitor the performance of a specific function.
In larger organizations, with sales & marketing, research & development, operations, supply chain and other teams working to bring products to market, each department has a specific role. Continue reading
The bitter conflict between actors, writers and other creative professionals and the major movie and TV studios represents a flashpoint in the radical transformation roiling the entertainment industry. The ongoing strikes by the Writers Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild were sparked in part by artificial intelligence and its use in the movie industry. Continue reading
This article is in two parts. The first is simple – I am seeking consulting work, preferably remote, but I’m okay exploring hybrid solutions. Most of the work I’ve done in the last year has been advisory in nature, helping companies to develop new AI/LLM strategies, architect knowledge graphs, XML and XSLT, RDF/SPARQL/SHACL ontologies and taxonomies, data catalogs, and GraphQL data portals, as well as making recommendations about data risk management, metadata governance, standards development and editing, and semantic content management. You could call me a data therapist. Continue reading
AI isn’t finally here – it’s been here for a while in everything from the autocorrect on your phone and the recommendations you get on Netflix – but it’s now in the mainstream. And thankfully, we’re having some of the hard conversations we failed to have when other technologies like social media were emerging. These will be long, complicated, and potentially inconclusive discussions, but at least they’re happening. Continue reading