Phil Simon

These days, it's not hard to find surveys, polls, and reports saying that "most" organizations are embracing …

Here's a handful of useful tools to collect the kind of data you need to make better business decisions.

On April 9th of 2013, I appeared the CNBC/Yahoo! Finance show Big Data Download. I spoke about Big Data, heal…

Short for data visualization, it's the art (and science) of putting numbers into graphics that are easy to un…

Short for data visualization, it's the art (and science) of putting numbers into graphics that are easy to un…

Summary: It's not enough for firms to create competencies around big data and data science. Organizations mus…

Print Article I recently sat down with author and smart cookie Dorie Clark to talk about her book Reinventing…

No matter what your business does and how big it is, you can learn to be more like these four companies. Base…

Phil Simon discusses his book "Too Big To Ignore: The Business Case For Big Data." Simon talks with Bloomberg…

Every startup, as well as mature business, needs to learn as much as possible from Amazon, Apple, Facebook, a…

The blueprint is simple: Learn from successful companies and apply their lessons to yours. Tips on doing that…

Oh goodness, there are those words again: big data. As a business owner these words are starting to sound lik…

"Which technologies are making such a dramatic difference? There are five specific ones. I collectively refer…

Let's face it, apps are the new sexy. They're an easy path to success, right? With companies like Instagram b…

Yahoo admits that its Mail service was (and will be) unavailable for some people for 40 hours. Unacceptable? …

Phil Simon is a sought-after speaker and the author of five management books, most recently Too Big To Ignore…

As a long-time Silicon Valley strategist, I read Phil Simon's insightful new book The Age of the Platform wit…

Photograph by David Gard/Star Ledger/Corbis As a computer systems network manager and member of the nonprofit…

If you shop, watch movies or job hunt online, you're taking advantage of the boom in data analytics even if y…

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Except of The Age of the Platform: How Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google Have Redefined Business.

Santiago Ortiz is a very talented and curious guy. I met the self-described visual data scientist while resea…

In a data-driven environment like Netflix, data visualization plays a key role. It must. In The Visual Organi…

Until she hit her early 30's, Zoe Winters' resume was a list of odd jobs: candle maker, Avon lady, waitress, …