Today’s blog article describes an extensive undertaking in analyzing international trade data. The work has been done by Ahmad Fahmi at Altares Dun & Bradstreet in The Netherlands, supervised by myself and Mike van...
In an earlier blog article I wrote about how human intelligence differs from artificial intelligence, namely human intelligence is general intelligence while artificial intelligence is specialized intelligence. The article...
A 2011 article in the Harvard Business Review with the title Nobody Has Time for Interns made me reflect on a recent experience. Why Engage Interns? Many professionals are hesitant to engage interns, for various reasons. Interns...
It is a time of grief in the workplace. A very dear colleague passed away, and left a huge gap behind him. His life ended abruptly, far too early, and left his family, his friends and his colleagues in pain, so...
There has been a lot of debate about the potential of Blockchain technology. Use cases in many industries popped up, yet the industry that has attracted maybe most attention is global trade. This Q&A blog article provides...
If you are interested in trade and logistics, and you’re intrigued by what we can learn from data analysis, this article is just right for you. Introducing the World Bank Logistics Performance Index (LPI) The World Bank...
Illicit Trade: Quantifying The Problem Size The cost of illicit trade to the global economy is massive, although it’s hard to quantify it precisely. A report of the World Economic Forum from 2015 estimated the cost of...
Reputational Risk: Definition We live in a world where information is omnipresent, where people are quick to judge and express negative sentiments on social media. Sentiment quickly spreads and translates to buying decisions. In...
Large traditional banks have enjoyed a strong position for many years, one may say a monopoly position. Everybody needs financial services, and therefore everybody needs a bank. So for many years the large banks have benefited...
Credit (Risk) Management has been out there… forever, it feels. Or at least since 1841. The four V’s of Big Data Big Data is a much newer term. I tend to think that it’s a new name for something that people have been doing...
