Big Data And Analytics Will Fundamentally Change How Public Services Are Produced And Consumed In Urban Areas Over The Next Few Years, And Many Cities Expect The Chief Innovation Officer To Figure Out How Best To Adapt To This Fast-Evolving Landscape. Dallas is looking to hire a “Chief Innovation Officer.” The job ad says the […]
Read more >A very pertinent question in the context of increasing disposable income of parents but reducing ‘quality time’ within families, there is no definite positive correlation between children’s grades and their parents’ investment in them. An interesting article titled “Financial help from parents leads to fall in students’ grades”, by Tamar Lewin, January 16, 2013, in […]
Read more >It makes better sense to discuss this question with parents. The discussion that follows could be shared with parents, without any need to edit. There are two parts to this question – How do I know that my child knows everything (academic)? How can a child, who is in the know of things, fail to […]
Read more >It makes better sense to discuss this question with parents. The discussion that follows could be shared with parents, without any need to edit. Hope you are a brave heart and really love your child to read the following and yet get a feeling of gratitude – the poor attention span of your child is […]
Read more >It makes better sense to discuss this question with parents. The discussion that follows could be shared with parents, without any need to edit. All kinds of ‘truisms’ abound on ‘how to appreciate’ your child (or not to). Shying away from such views and suggestions, we want to focus on ‘what to appreciate’ for. We […]
Read more >In a conversation with MicroStrategy CMO Mark Gambill, he described the rise of a new type of role—the chief data officer (click here for article). As part of that conversation, he suggested I talk with Matthew Thomas, CDO, Pandera Systems, a leader in helping firms deliver analytics and automated decision capabilities, to better understand why […]
Read more >Let us start with a confession. We know very little about how we learn! And least of all, about the formative years 0-3 and 3-5. We split the 0-5 years developmental phase into two because, according to the more accepted theory (our knowledge about brains is still all fluid), a child’s brain rapidly grows in […]
Read more >The answer is a 100% YES! Education is one of the rare ‘no switch-off business’ and school education is much more so. Children are formally expected to continue the ‘business of learning’, initiated or choreographed at school, outside of school too. Homework is the critical connect between schools and the outside world; in the form […]
Read more >We all know about the legendary transcontinental Silk Route that connected nations into dependent relationships. Similarly, the goods available at market places of major urban centres in Greece included wheat and slaves from Egypt, grains from the Black Sea (especially via Byzantium), salt fish from the Black Sea, wood (especially for shipbuilding) from Macedonia. Industrialisation […]
Read more >Blockchain is one of the biggest buzzwords in technology right now. But what is it? And why are all your friends and family talking about it? Let’s start from the beginning. The first major application of blockchain technology was bitcoin which was released in 2009. Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency and the blockchain is the technology […]
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