FED Up With Big Data Hype? How Central Banks Struggle with Digital Disruption
By Christopher Surdak
Since releasing his latest book, “Jerk: Twelve Steps to Rule the World,” Christopher Surdak has spoken with thousands of business and governmental...
Dubai: A City of Jerks
By Christopher Surdak
Chris Surdak shares the lessons he has learnt from Dubai's strategies to “Jerk” or disrupt the way that information is created, stored...
Captain Dunsail to the Rescue! As Technology Advances We May Finally Be Forced to...
By Christopher Surdak
Christopher Surdak argues that in order for businesses to earn the highest returns on information technology, they must focus their investments on...
Hey, You, Get Off of My Cloud What Stones Can Teach Us about...
By Christopher Surdak
In their 1960’s hit song, “Get Off of My Cloud,” Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones lament about others around them ruining...
The Rationality of Risk, Part 3: Rollercoasters, Burning Ships and the Hero’s Journey
By Christopher Surdak
In part three of the series on The Rationality of Risk, Chris Surdak gives some guidance on making friends with risk. Loss,...
Creeping Towards Creepy: Companies Must Learn Constraint with Big Data, Before it’s Too Late
By Robert D. Owen and Christopher W. Surdak
Companies have invested billions just to utilise technology to analyse customer needs and wants with maximum accuracy....
The Rationality of Risk, Part 2: Avoiding Risk, Keeping Busy, and Resorting with...
By Christopher Surdak, JD
In part two of the series on the Rationality of Risk, Chris Surdak provides an overview of some of the avoidance...
The Rationality of Risk: Creating Real Value After a Legacy of Easy Money
By Christopher Surdak
In order to get back on the path of value-creation and rational, sustainable economic growth, businesses must first tackle their tendency towards...
Selling Illusory Joy: Emotions, Big Data and the Coming Retail Renaissance
By Christopher Surdak and Ed King
Today the world is awash in massive amounts of context-rich data. Whether it’s GPS position information, social media posts,...
Local Technology Expert & Acclaimed Author Receives Wharton Club’s “2015 Benjamin Franklin Innovator’s Award”
Redlands,CALIFORNIA – May 6, 2015 –Redlands-native Christopher Surdak, J.D. was awarded the “Benjamin Franklin Innovator’s Award” from the Wharton Club of D.C. at the...
Analysis Paralysis: How “Big Data” May Finally Spell the End of Make-Believe Numbers
By Chris Surdak
In this article, Chris Surdak speaks from experience and argues that financial models are not used to present scientific or mathematical fact...
“I Can’t Help You:” The Dangers of Employees Disablement in the Social/Media Era
By Christopher Surdak
The quality of customer service has been steadily declining in recent years, but now that increasing digitisation has shifted more power to...
Better Be a Baller: The Coming Talent Gap May be the Opposite of What...
By Christopher Surdak
The concept of Big Data has rapidly emerged as web and telecoms-based networking has expanded on a global scale. Christopher Surdak explores...
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