This is a re-post of an article originally by First Analytics Chairman Tom Davenport. More of Tom's articles can be found here. One of the key attributes of the lean startup approach popularized by Steve Blank and Eric Ries is…
First Analytics CEO Michael Thompson recently participated in a webinar hosted by Steve Barnett, of Symphony Industrial AI, a First Analytics partner. We invite you to view the recording, where you will learn the key considerations in moving from a…
It may be said that predictive maintenance is the poster child for the "analytics of things." Preventing down time and reducing maintenance costs has been a successful use of data science for a long time. But sometimes there is…
Over four years ago we commented on "bewildering technology landscapes". Matt Turck from Firstmark Capital has produced these landscape charts for a number of years. And these can be "eye charts" in the sense that, visually, it's a myriad of logos packed…
This post is a companion to our previous post, Beyond Data Science: Industrial Engineering. The notion in that article was that there is more to analytics than just data science, the specific case being industrial engineering. For a long time…
Perhaps the most common use of machine learning algorithms is to look for anomalies or unexpected events and send an alert to somebody who can act on it. See for example, this use of machine vision, which triggers real-time alerts to an…
Rob Stevens with First Analytics will be speaking at the upcoming Foresight Practitioner Conference November 13th at 9:30 AM in Chapel Hill, NC. This conference will primarily focus on Artificial Intelligence and what this means for forecasting and planning. Rob…
Analytics thought leader and chairman of First Analytics, Tom Davenport, has published The AI Advantage: How to Put the Artificial Intelligence Revolution to Work. This is a practical follow-up to his previous book, "Only Humans Need Apply: Winners and Losers…