by Robert Walker | Mar 18, 2020 | Communications, Customer experience, Emotion, Uncategorized
Every day I receive a deluge of email from companies with whom I have a glancing relationship, yet seem compelled to assure me about their healthy operational status during our shared Coronavirus pandemic.They breathlessly promote their products and services and go...
by Robert Walker | Oct 31, 2018 | Uncategorized
Happy Halloween! As expected, Qualtrics filed its Form S-1 registration statement (IPO) on October 19, 2018 under the oh-so-sexy symbol ‘XM’. Qualtrics, backed by VC firms Sequoia and Accel, has been valued at as much as $2.5 billion; soon we’ll hear what...
by Robert Walker | Oct 31, 2018 | Uncategorized
Happy Halloween! As expected, Qualtrics filed its Form S-1 registration statement (IPO) on October 19, 2018 under the oh-so-sexy symbol ‘XM’. Qualtrics, backed by VC firms Sequoia and Accel, has been valued at as much as $2.5 billion; soon we’ll hear what...
by Robert Walker | Sep 16, 2018 | Marketing and strategy, Uncategorized
Blockchain provides the basis for a dynamic shared ledger that can reduce time when recording transactions, intermediary costs, and fraud. In the last couple of years, I’ve seen an increasing number of presentations on the value of blockchain. In industries where...
by Robert Walker | Oct 30, 2017 | Uncategorized
Data that’s really, really big No one goes around saying, “Gee, look at how big that data is!” Well, maybe some people, but they’re weird. At present, there is no unified definition of ‘big data’. Various stakeholders have diverse or self-serving definitions. A...
by Robert Walker | Sep 24, 2017 | Uncategorized
Let’s review some standard sales forecast inputs… When conducting a sales forecasting exercise, there are a number of fairly standard inputs that we have to feed into a forecasting model. In addition to the identification of a target population, and...
