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September 19, 2006
Training the 15 year olds
I met yesterday with one of my favorite/most inspirational customers in London. Great discussions about how analytics and visualization has the chance of really bridging vastly different business areas in corporations - from R&D to Sales&Marketing.
The customer provocatively (in a great way) asked me "how early do you start train the future Spotfire user generation?". I always thought about the university programs we run serving this purpose - but she kicked back and said "you need to start earlier, start with 15 year olds - they need to be prepped for a world of looking at data holistically".
And she's right. Perhaps it's already back in school things go wrong with us all looking at problems in silo orientation - not looking at enough angles and not turning the data stones upside down to look for the unexpected to be able to make break-throughs. Question is what's the high value/interest data that 15 year olds will get all excited about. Fantasy football? Probably not their pension portfolio anyway...
Posted by Christopher Ahlberg at September 19, 2006 4:15 PM
