IT revolution

Analytics and Magical Thinking

April 15, 2014 Adam McClellan Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

Any disruptive technology brings with it a disruption in thinking. The Industrial Revolution led for a brief while to a belief in almost infinite human mastery over the physical world. The IT revolution gave us new awareness of our physical and metaphorical interconnectedness with others around the world. So, given the disruptive nature of data analytics and its associated technologies, what disruptions in thinking can we expect from it?