Amazon to North American Cities: Calling all Rabbits

Last week, big city mayors across the US received the kind of news they dream about: Amazon is looking for a second corporate headquarters, with the promise of billions of dollars of investment and a potential of 50,000 new jobs.1

Moving Beyond Big Data

The purpose of “big data” is to give managers a clearer vision of something so they can make decisions about products, pricing and distribution. In pricing, it is generally around how customers buy.  It uses statistical techniques to group cu…

Who Is Winning at Sales Transformation? How Oracle is Taking the Lead

Commentary from WSJ Aug 17, 2017 “How Oracle Engineered Its Sales Staff for the Cloud”

The Last Mile Imperative

The ‘last mile’ is a colloquial phrase widely used in the telecommunications to refer to the portion of the network chain that physically reaches the end-user’s premises. This connectivity is critical; it is the link to their paying customers and …