Move aside Excel Ninjas – business transformation has new weapons
When big data officially emerged as a new thing, one major area of focus was on “exhaust data” and the idea that organisations could find huge value in data that already existed in their systems, but was not being exploited. Since then, big data p…
Case study: Comic Relief GDPR programme
Comic Relief made an early start on its GDPR compliance programme by creating a working party in November 2015. Its approach to data audits, privacy policies, data retention and staff training are an award-winning benchmark.
3 steps into the future
Connected toasters that list themselves on eBay if you haven’t used them for 90 days. Smart homes that sense who is present based on their behavioural pattern. Cars that talk to eachother and can brake in unison. What was once the stuff of science…
Merkle Aquila – from Edinburgh kitchen to global player
Five years ago, Aquila Insight was founded around a kitchen table in Edinburgh. This year saw it acquired by Merkle and become part of the Dentsu Aegis Network, taking it onto the global stage. En route, it has been a model for how to grow an anal…
How Boots built a gender mix into its Personalisation Insights Team
What is the situation?
The personalisation, loyalty and insights (PLI) team at Boots is 66% female in a team of 31.
When did they notice they were different?
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IoT set to accelerate disruption of car insurance sector
The adoption of autonomous vehicles by the automotive industry is starting to pick up pace. Nick Walker, insurance expert and RAC’s former UK telematics managing director, witnessed BMW set up a building outside Munich and fill it with 2,000 engin…
Disconnected data is a spanner in the works of business efficiency
Disconnected data is an obstacle to efficiency within organisations. This is according to research that found that, on average, workers believe their organisation would see a 28% increase in efficiency if all necessary data were better int…
Don’t follow the Swedish model: why data contracts could be your DP downfall
Sweden has every reason to be sensitive about personal information. Up to 1975, it compulsorily sterilised some 21,000 of its own citizens on the grounds of eugenics. With a problematic misuse of medical data of that kind in its background, you wo…
Double pivot gets Football Whispers the win
The team behind Football Whispers submitted its entry to the DataIQ Talent Awards only hoping that the data sector would understand what it is doing – trawling through transfer chatter for nuggets of truth. The sector not only understood, …
Are you content with assumed consent?
Imagine you attend an event to hear a speaker from your industry, invite in hand, and expected by the hosts. The drinks are flowing as guests nibble the canapés. Throughout the schoomzing, you notice a photographer snapping away in the bac…
How to win your analytics bid – 5 tips to be a successful CAO
JustGiving and eBay may have a category difference when it comes to their size – the fundraising platform has helped more than £4 billion to be collected since it launched in 2001, while the auction site sold around £16 billion of stock in…
IAC migrates for a cleaner data view
As the head of business intelligence at IAC Publishing Labs, it is Erika Bakse’s job to make sure that data and analytics is available to all business users and data users – “basically, the whole company,” in her words. She told DataIQ in …
EDF makes smart home connections
Head of connected home at EDF Energy Blue Lab, John Hutchins, is excited about developments in his area of the energy company’s innovation centre. During a presentation hosted by the Sussex Innovation Centre in Croydon, part of the Univers…
A warehouse full of Snowflakes
In an interview with DataIQ, chief executive Bob Muglia described Snowflake as, “a data warehouse company that is revolutionising the way people work with data,” and added that, “there is an insatiable desire for organisations to work with…
Embrace smart data to achieve your marketing goals
Data is a valuable currency for most companies these days. In 2015, users generated nearly 8 zettabytes of data worldwide and that number is likely to reach 35 zettabytes within just a few years. Companies are contributing to that massive …
John Akred: Data scientist in search of the right question
“It can look as though my life led up to this moment in what seems like a grand plan to become a data scientist. The truth is I just got lucky that the world decided to call what I do data science.” So says John Akred, co-founder and CTO at Silico…
Andrew Day, CDO of Sainsbury’s, tops the 2017 DataIQ 100
The ultimate power list of the most influential leaders in data-driven business. Now in its fourth consecutive year, the DataIQ 100 has been revealed once again to highlight the UK’s key industry leaders who drive business…
DataIQ 100 Class of 2016 – Where are they now?
With the unveiling of this year’s DataIQ 100, it’s a good opportunity to look back on the class of 2016 and consider how much has changed in the last 12 months. It is immediately striking that, out of the previous Top Ten, just five remain in the …
HR/AI = (-x) – The employment/automation equation
Valentine’s Day is looming next week and for commercial flower growers it represents one of the biggest sales opportunities of the year. Assuming they can get their products cut and collected from the fields, that is. In the wake of Brexit, the b…
Have we passed peak data protection?
Progress is a motherhood and apple pie concept, as the Americans like to call them. Nobody disagrees with it, but few can define exactly why it is especially welcome. If you say a new development is just part of progress, it is a quick way…