Machine learning (ML) isn’t new. However, the field of big data is revitalizing the subject and more organizations are relying on ML models to scale their operations, support staff in working better and faster, to uncover hidden insights from data, or even confirm and challenge underlying assumptions. This is creating widespread interest in related topics with the C-suite, and...

For the past year or so there is a foreboding by many industry experts that this year (2016) there is going to be heads rolling in the high-tech industry in a major way. Below are the estimates projected by analysts for some of the major corporations that have a large presence in the Silicon Valley. If you add-up all the numbers the lay-offs can peak at nearly quarter of a million high-tech...

Clients often come to me to seek guidance on how they should manage their career and what they must do today to protect their future, secure their career advancement, and have some control over the choices available to them as they grow in their profession. During the past decade, and particularly during the most recent five years the rate of change and its velocity have caused much...