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Joe Shamir
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Joe Shamir, CEO of ToolsGroup (Part 7)
Sramana Mitra: Let’s say in the 10-year horizon we are seeing really significant adoption of still people-driven but a lot of data-driven behavior and optimization. It would be probably reasonable to say that in another 20 to 30 years, the people component will become less and less and everything becomes fully automated. Joe Shamir: Certain
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Joe Shamir, CEO of ToolsGroup (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: If you were to predict the horizon, what time frame are we talking about in which decisions will be driven by data – more scientifically as opposed to approximation? Joe Shamir: It’s very hard to predict that. You have to be a social guru for that. Today, the phenomenon is driven from the
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Joe Shamir, CEO of ToolsGroup (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: Sounds like your customer base is largely in retail and consumer packaged goods. Is that accurate? Joe Shamir: Yes, we are also in other verticals but this is the first verticals where you have this phenomena happening by nature of things.
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Joe Shamir, CEO of ToolsGroup (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: You’re basically using past promotions and modeling those past promotions in your machine learning algorithms to see how the behavior changes when you run certain kinds of promotions. When another promotion is being run in a similar geography by a similar channel partner, then you’re able to predict demand using those models.
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Joe Shamir, CEO of ToolsGroup (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: Joe, I’d like to do a couple of use cases because a lot of the things that we are talking about here are fairly complicated. The best thing to do is to just go through a couple of use cases. You can pick whatever customers best illustrate the concepts that we have discussed.
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Joe Shamir, CEO of ToolsGroup (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: Since you have visibility on the supply chain side of the business, what are the key trends that you’re seeing in the Big Data applications and modeling? Joe Shamir: By the fact that you’re moving closer to the consumer, you are collecting demand data as close as possible to the shelf or to
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Joe Shamir, CEO of ToolsGroup (Part 1)
Machines replacing humans. Similar to what Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfson point out in their article on the decoupling of productivity and job growth, Joe Shamir sheds some light on this trend of process automation within businesses. Sramana Mitra: Joe, let’s start with introducing our audience to yourself as well as to ToolsGroup. Joe Shamir:
