One of the all-time great television shows for the STEM-inclined was a 1980s action drama called MacGyver.  It starred actor Richard Dean Anderson as Angus "Mac" MacGyver, who, unlike most American action heroes, eschewed firearms, resorting to them only twice in 94 episodes. Instead, MacGyver stymied his enemies with his “genius-level intellect, superb engine…

There’s a fun 40-minute documentary on Netflix called “The Speed Cubers,” about people for whom competitive Rubik’s Cube solving is somewhat of an obsession.  And it holds some useful parallels for those who may find themselves responsible for solving their companies’ digital transformation and customer centricity challenges. First, here’s some interesting…

  I’m a big fan of the Ford Bronco. In addition to the trusty Bronco I take off-roading, I’m near the top of the 125,000-person waiting list for the new model. In my years of negotiating impossible inclines and boulder-strewn roads I’ve realized that driving a Bronco is a lot like solving analytics challenges — it’s counterproductive to use more horsepower…

It’s the limbo you don’t want to find yourself as a bank executive- your existing risk models are now out of compliance, yet you don’t have any data on the potential impact of your new predictive models on pricing strategy and overarching business conversions. Digital simulations provide the solution to these types of complex problems. Digital simulations allow you…