Building board diversity

Bringing greater diversity to the boardroom is a trending topic in governance circles everywhere these days. Fueled by rising awareness of racial and gender inequalities, activist investors and a dozen states enacting new laws requiring boards to diversify, there is also a profound business shift underway. Boards are expanding their narrow focus on shareholder value…

Top 15 tools for predictive analytics

Somewhere along the way computers transformed from filing cabinets for data into crystal balls that foretell the future by examining that data to predict what might happen in a few seconds, a few days, maybe even a few years. Many of the tools for accomplishing this feat fall under the term “predictive analytics.” The term…