How many of us are out there?

One of the realities of advanced analytics and AI is that, at the current time, conversations in the business press, popular press, in governments at the cabinet and ministerial levels, in universities, in think tanks, in venture capital firms, in private equity firms, and in the minds of nearly everyone that is interested are focused on the changes that advanced analytics will bring to our businesses and societies.

The interest in advanced analytics and AI has never been higher and has never been discussed on such a wide platform with so many diverse sets of people.

The number of people who truly understand the multiple factors that need to come together in a specific way to deliver positive operational improvements from analytics is a very small number.

I have been part of several large and small companies. In one of the larger firms, with over 26,000 employees, there was approximately a third of 1% of the entire staff around the world...