Catching Up On Readings: Analytical Innovation

This feature on WSJ by Tom Davenport puts an analytics spin on Doblin’s Ten Types of Innovation. It looks at how innovation can be driven, supported, or measured with analytics. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

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Unicorn in the Making: Veeam CEO Ratmir Timashev (Part 5)

Sramana: How has the change in industry tolerance and culture affected your marketplace? Ratmir Timashev: These changes in business requirements have made the legacy solutions by Symantec and IBM less effective. Access to data should be almost continuous. You can only tolerate a few minutes of downtime and data loss should also be minimal. Everybody

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Atanas Kiryakov, CEO of OntoText (Part 5)

Atanas Kiryakov: The purpose of maintaining an online process is to be able to classify and enrich content with more metadata. A typical media website contains 10 or 20 categories like specific regions in the world, which means there would typically be 10 to 30 web pages that are pretty much maintained by them. Their editors make decisions on

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Sari Factor, CEO of Edgenuity (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Your system maintains the personalized skill gap data for every student that is on your platform? Sari Factor: Correct. Sramana Mitra: Can different teachers, as they progress through the grade, access that data?

Unicorn in the Making: Veeam CEO Ratmir Timashev (Part 4)

Sramana: What did you do when you left Quest? Ratmir Timashev: We left in 2005 and for the next year, we took our time to look around and find the next big idea. We saw that virtualization was the new big trend. I have some good friends in the venture capital community who told me that virtualization

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Atanas Kiryakov, CEO of OntoText (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Basically, you’re addressing regulatory issues for pharmaceutical companies. Then you’re helping some of these media companies reconcile and clarify their databases and perhaps even enhance their databases, which are then accessed by their clients. That’s the other use case that you talked about, right? Atanas Kiryakov: Yes. We also help pharmaceutical companies with

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Sari Factor, CEO of Edgenuity (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: They are using online curriculum but there’s a teacher who’s telling them, “You take this course. Do this exercise.” Sari Factor: Absolutely. The system is telling the student how much they need to accomplish each day, but a teacher is always monitoring that. We offer adjunct teachers as well. We provide that service.

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Design in Startups from the Get-Go

By Guest Author Soren Petersen and Bill Gross There has never been a better time to start a company since there is an abundance of capital, talent, and growth rate. The rules of game have changed from a “make and sell” mentality to “how fast can one turn ideas/knowledge.” Dynamic, real-time conversations with potential users

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