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Big Data and the Lone Wolf
It has become more valuable than ever to gather data yourself as an organisation. There are two reasons for this. Firstly, search engines and other easy-to-search databases on the internet have been making more and more information publicly available: your competitors and the guy next door can see it too. So in order to have…
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Innovation: speed boats and oil tankers
A faltering economy leaves little room for innovation within a large, established company. More than ever, employees with good ideas who want to innovate are met with critical scrutiny and demands for a well fleshed-out investment proposal: before an innovation gets the green light, it needs to be proved that this innovation will be successful.…
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National cyber shelter keeps DDoS attacks outside the door
Recent DDoS attacks in the Netherlands, targeting banks, the airline KLM and the governmental identity management platform DigiD – each causing substantial financial losses – go to show how much society has come to depend on the internet, and how vulnerable vital websites and services are to this kind of attack, which, technologically speaking, could…
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The “new” online world?
The online world has been the subject of the past few weeks: virtual threats, traffic jams blocking digital bank offices, air travel companies and newspaper websites, the Twitter message by the Associated Press saying something happened to Barack Obama in the White House, leading to a brief stock market crash — and that’s just the…
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Out of touch
I’ve had my first five years of being a management consultant. When I started doing this, I expected to end up in a different place in society — in board rooms — where I could work on grappling with the big issues that politics has been going on about all my life. But strangely enough,…
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"Facebook riots" in Haren were not Facebook riots
Yesterday, results were published by a committee that was tasked with investigating riots in the village of Haren. Part of that task was to study what role Facebook played in these riots. They didn’t do this. Instead, they analysed Facebook posts. September last year, Rob Bats, mayor of the municipality of Haren, reacted hysterically to…