Since I woke up this morning, I’ve received 30 mobile news alerts, 25 email alerts, and another 17 emails from investment managers providing their unsolicited views of the financial world. My Twitter ...

It’s not an accident that data is the bedrock of the Data, Information, Knowledge, Wisdom (DIKW) pyramid made famous by Russell Ackoff in 1989. That expresses the common conviction that data are the ...

The data-information-knowledge-wisdom hierarchy seemed like a really great idea when it was first proposed. But its rapid acceptance was in fact a sign of how worried we were about the real value of ...

The data-information-knowledge-wisdom model puts artificial intelligence in its proper place. As a Marine Corps intelligence officer in my previous life, my job was to help senior leaders answer the ...

We assume many of you are familiar with the work of Clifford Stoll, author of both “The Cuckoo’s Egg” and “Silicon Snake Oil.” The latter, which was written 15 years ago, stated, “the Internet ...