University of Reimagination (Part 1)

MIT has just launched a bold, brave and public initiative to reimagine what the university could be in seven years. This is the kind of nextsensing initiative that so many public and private enterprises desperately need to do but either (a) don’t know it, or (b)...

Big Concerns With Big Data

Last October, I commented on the current trend of relying on “big data” to help in decision thinking [ see post ]. David Brooks, in a recent post for The New York Times, gave an interesting twist to the same area of discussion. He opens with the story a...