A New Paradigm for Utility Companies by Belleh Fontem

The incumbents in the energy industry are on course toward a radically new "transformative" normal as characterized by James Rogers, Chairman and CEO of Duke Energy. Rogers started out by laying out some common misconceptions of transformation within the context of the energy industry. According to him, the process of transformation has little to do with process improvements or productivity gains but is what happens when people see the world through a new lens and absorb different perspectives. Read More.

The Emergence of Big Data by Belleh Fontem

In laying out a vision for the future of data analytics, Keith Collins, CEO and Senior Vice President of SAS Software, used Ray Kurzweil's singularity concept (the accelerating pace of technology and the eventual merging of man and machine) as an analogy for a point in the distant future when data mining and modeling will converge in a seamless construct. Read More.