Knowing Your “Economic Buyer” is Not Enough. Welcome the Bullseye! Anyone who’s been involved in running a business, at a startup or a GM a business unit at a larger company, will tell you that it is tricky. Beyond the complexities involved in building the right product, creating the right environment for teams…

How “Jobs To Be Done” build better products?! | Chief Data Officers: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly | Playbook for Growth: How to scale GTM, build culture and avoid getting drunk on “Valuation Kool-Aid” from two of my favorite CEOs 1 — What are “Jobs To Be Done”?! And How Do They Help Build Better Products? Thanks Brian O'Neill for having me on the “Experiencing…

A formula for building a foundation of growth and scale I’ve been in the enterprise software business for 25+ years and been lucky to be part of great (and not so great) stories. When startups ask me to join their advisor board, I run them through a model that contains…

What to expect in 2023: Energy, Inflation, Brain Implants & The Metaverse The World Ahead 2023 in 60 Seconds 3 Key take-aways from the Economist recap. Russia will try to string out the conflict in the hope that an energy crunch in Europe and Republicans returning to power in America will undermine Western support for Ukraine. High…

What DATA Tech will DISRUPT IN 2023 | The THREE types of Data Products | Predictions 2023 1— Football is LIFE. So, yes. I am sad that France lost today. BUT, I am excited for Messi, my Argentinian friends…and frankly football. This sport has the amazing power to unify people from all over the…

A Brief History of the Future, The Truth about Data Mesh & What’s Wrong with AI?! 1 — FIVE Days Left to Tell Us About the Future What’s Most SURPRISED you in 2022 (Vote here) What’s Most DISAPPOINTED you in 2022 (Vote here) What You Think Will Make MOST PROGRESS in 2023 (Vote here) So far, folks seem to have been…

Leadership, Scaling Businesses, Recaps, Reflexions and 2023 Predictions… Welcome to December?! What happens in December every year?! Recaps and Predictions! In this post, we’re starting with Leadership, Scaling Your Business…and of course recaps and predictions questions in my tech domain of preference of Data, AI and Analytics! Fun Data Meme of the Week goes to….Laurent Dresse! THANKS Alex Zaharov-Reutt for having me on!

What is Quantitative Intuition and it can help | Why You Can’t Predict the 2022 Soccer World Cup winner | Everybody can complicate but very few can simplify | How To Evaluate Technology Right… I can’t really start this week without pointing to a few resources that come at the…

Why Chief data officers don’t stay in their roles long, the State of AI by Deloitte and best practices for Data Stack Adoption. This week, I have the opportunity to visit Sydney for Gartner’s Data Analytics Summit and Google Cloud’s Leaders Event (a local version of Google Next!). Sydney was…