Category Archives: Trends

The Most Popular DMCommunity’s Posts of 2018

Posted on December 30, 2018 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Here is the list of the most viewed DMCommunity.org pages and posts in 2018: Page/Post Views Challenge Feb-2018 823 DecisionCAMP-2018 550 Challenge April-2018 508 Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2018 437 Challenge June-2018 422 Challenge Nov-2018 378 Three Levels … Continue reading →

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Decisioning Challenges of Driverless Cars

Posted on December 10, 2018 by decisionmanagementcommunity

It is a lot harder to make an autonomous car than to sell the idea to AI-obsessed audiences. Christian Wolmar, the British author and broadcaster, said in this interview: “This is a fantasy that has not been thought through, and … Continue reading →

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Machine Learning Applied: China vs. US

Posted on December 9, 2018 by decisionmanagementcommunity

In this MIT Technology Review “Tech companies should stop pretending AI won’t destroy jobs” Kai-Fu Lee gives several reasons why China will have at least a 50/50 chance of winning the AI race: 1) China has a huge army of young people coming into AI; … Continue reading →

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The end of the beginning

Posted on November 19, 2018 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Benedict Evans, a partner at Andreessen Horowitz, gave a big annual  presentation on the state of tech – ‘the end of the beginning’ at a16z’s annual tech conference on Nov. 16, 2018. “Close to three quarters of all the adults on earth now have … Continue reading →

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Small Companies Adopt Business Intelligence and Analytics Twice Faster than Large Organizations

Posted on November 16, 2018 by decisionmanagementcommunity

This article discusses “What will the future of business analytics look like?” It states: the future of business analytics is small business! 1 out of 3 small business leaders believe business intelligence (BI) and analytics will have a significant impact on their small … Continue reading →

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IBM to Acquire Red Hat

Posted on October 29, 2018 by decisionmanagementcommunity

This big announcement came on October 28, 2018. The acquisition is by far IBM’s largest deal ever, and the third-biggest in the history of U.S. tech. In a joint statement IBM and Red Hat stated that the “deal will make … Continue reading →

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Going to college is costing less

Posted on October 17, 2018 by decisionmanagementcommunity

After decades of increasing tuition, universities are going the other way — either by flattening costs or bringing them right down.The combination of fewer students applying for college and more grants being out given means that higher education is not as expensive … Continue reading →

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Tim Berners-Lee: Game On!

Posted on September 29, 2018 by decisionmanagementcommunity

With an ambitious decentralized platform, the father of the web  Sir Tim Berners-Lee will launch Inrupt, a startup that he has been building, in stealth mode, for the past nine months. Its mission is to turbocharge a broader movement afoot, among … Continue reading →

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No future without maths

Posted on August 24, 2018 by decisionmanagementcommunity

“Today’s and tomorrow’s jobs will require more and more mathematics; and yet the level of students in the West seems to be consistently dropping. What can we tech companies do about this? Maths seems to have worked its way into … Continue reading →

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Two months after GDPR

Posted on August 12, 2018 by decisionmanagementcommunity

More than 1,000 US news sites are unavailable in Europe, 2 months after the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) took effect on May 25. Websites had two years to get ready for the GDPR. But rather than comply, about a third of … Continue reading →

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