Wanted: Wild Ducks who are in for a Cognitive Challenge
The one thing that’s always in the back of every entrepreneur’s mind is how to serve his/her customers even better. It is in our mind, it is in the mind of our Business Partners. Cognitive adds value to the customers. The cognitive solutions market represents a tremendous growth opportunity for businesses delivering solutions with cognitive […]
People want more control over their data
A recent survey (directed towards Communication Service Providers) by the IBM Institute for Business Value clearly shows that only 4% of the respondents don’t need control over their personal data while the vast majority desire some level of control. As a GDPR consultant, every insight on data privacy is another opportunity to guide how we […]
The Masters, Holy Grail of golf and IBM
Het is weer zo ver!! Deze week wordt de US Masters gespeeld op de Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta Georgia. Dit toernooi is altijd de eerste major van het seizoen en tegelijkertijd ook het hoogtepunt van het golfjaar. Dit komt natuurlijk door de spelers maar misschien nog wel meer door de lokatie en de opgebouwde […]
Change is an undeniable part of life. Diversity too.
20th Century Fox’s Hidden Figures movie tells the story of three African-American female mathematicians working at the Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. They wanted a chance to change their lives; while they were at it, they changed history. These human “computers,” with help from an early mainframe provided by IBM, created computations that enabled […]
Een prachtige en inspirerende film voor meiden van nu
20th Century Fox’s Hidden Figures movie tells the story of three African-American female mathematicians working at the Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. They wanted a chance to change their lives; while they were at it, they changed history. These human “computers,” with help from an early mainframe provided by IBM, created computations that enabled […]
Node-what? Node.js
Last week the IBM InterConnect event took place in Las Fake-as. Terrible place, but good for holding this kind of large events. Approximately 20.000 people attended. 100s and 100s of sessions and it took me quite some time to find my way around the Mandalay Bay Conference Centre that could easily have given shelter for […]
Using machine learning the smart way
Organizations should grow like human beings: if they don’t invest in developing their knowledge and expertise they will stop learning and become old very fast – lacking the right insights and taking the wrong decisions. This is where machine learning helps. Machine learning isn’t new, but it is often applied the wrong way. So how […]
What to expect from the GDPR readiness assessment
Is a mild sense of panic taking hold of some of your colleagues? The implementation of the long-awaited General Data Protection Regulation (or GDPR) is inching closer and closer, and discussions will invariably revolve around: “Where to start?”, “Where to go?”, “What will it cost?”. If you attend any GDPR event, typically everyone, no matter […]
Materialize your financial future
In what follows, we’ll take a look at how a company that is future-ready product- and service- wise, can ensure that its finance department is future-ready as well. A great example is Materialise, a company famed for its expertise in everything related to 3D printing. They recently collaborated with IBM to renew the entire handling […]