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May 8, 20241 min read

CFO insights: Data is the tide that lifts all ships

Unlocking CFO potential: The power of data and analytics for private equity-owned businesses

Oct 31, 20234 min read

New York State of Mind

Last week, Adam and I had the extraordinary opportunity of speaking at Riverside Acceleration Capital’s CEO Forum in New York. The topic...

Sep 19, 20233 min read

How can Generative AI boost your product strategy - and your company's value?

Generative AI is a branch of artificial intelligence that can create new content, such as text, images, music, or code, based on existing...

Aug 15, 20233 min read

GENERATING RETURNS - Generative AI's impact on key sectors and private equity investments

The technological landscape is rapidly changing. And investors’ attention with it. Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is a...

Dec 7, 20214 min read

Measuring Data Ecosystem Maturity

Introduction to a scale reflecting economic value of data. We consultants are obsessed with benchmarks and scales! Why? Well, for...

Nov 25, 20217 min read

Data is an asset. What is its value?

Thinking about data like an executive. This article is a translation of Adam Votava's presentation given at Primetime for Big Data 2021...

Nov 17, 20214 min read

DATA - the new leverage for buyouts

Four years ago, The Economist grabbed our collective attention with the headline: ‘The worlds’ most valuable resource is no longer oil,...

Oct 17, 20214 min read

The most important data question

Data is an imperfect reflection of the real world. Keep that in mind when using data to solve business problems. Data can be used to...

Sep 29, 20213 min read

The data investment life cycle

And the importance of J-curve for investors. Again. Most companies understand that data represents a significant (and growing) business...

Sep 23, 20214 min read

Does empathy play a role in being data-driven?

An important soft skill in the world of hard numbers It was demonstrated almost ten years ago, that data-driven decision making is...

Sep 14, 20213 min read

Why investors need data due diligence

Aligning the stars to unlock the power of data for value creation Data is finding its way into private equity. Investors — just like...

Sep 6, 20214 min read

Churn prediction model

Musing about a use case that’s been with me for a decade No company likes to lose valuable customers. In the beginning, a company...

Feb 8, 20216 min read

Embracing ambiguity

Data literacy is more than the ability to read charts Adam Votava, Medium Blog Data is increasingly important for business success....

Jan 26, 20213 min read

Chief data scientist as a conductor

How to be a world-class conductor to your data teams Adam Votava, Medium Blog Chief data scientists are typically recruited from a pool...

Jan 12, 20216 min read

Data strategy: make data count

Creating a strategy to put wind in your data sails Adam Votava, Medium Blog Data is powering our economy. Businesses are using data to...

Dec 8, 20205 min read

Setting up a green-field data science team

Building a team, not hiring individuals. Where to start, what to look for and how to decide. Adam Votava, Medium Blog And here I am. Back...

Nov 25, 20204 min read

If only someone had told me

3 tips for data strategy execution from a start-up chief data scientist Adam Votava, Medium Blog Following the protracted excitement of...

Sep 1, 202010 min read

Why is data science failing to solve the right problems?

Data science’s raison d’etre is to solve problems. Yet, leading voices (e.g. VentureBeat, HBR or Gartner) are suggesting that it is failing