Internet Guru’s Theory of Evolution
Thanks to Mike Maney, Founder of ManeyDigital, for posting the picture on Instagram. The picture also appears on Instagram at #johnrpatrick. Mike was Public Relations Manager for our Internet Technology group at IBM back in 2000. There was an upcoming story (below) which was to appear in the Los Angeles Times and they wanted a […]
When Have We Seen Enough Drug Ads on TV?
I believe Alex Azar, Secretary of Health and Human Services, is doing a good job of trying to improve our broken healthcare system. The move to allow states to seek a Federal waiver to implement Medicaid in ways tailored to their needs has a lot of potential. Some states have already shown they can reduce […]
Investigating Crime
Robot Attitude is coming this summer! Click here to get an alert when it publishes. This is the final post about the use of voices and AI. As we have seen in the prior posts, voice analytics can play a role in numerous areas. In the case of criminal investigations, it can do much more. […]
Combatting Fraud
About 10 percent of the property and casualty insurance industry’s incurred losses and loss adjustment expenses each year are fraudulent[i] During the five-year period from 2013 to 2017, the fraud amounted to approximately $30 billion each year.[ii] The most common fraud is when an insured pads or inflates actual claims, misrepresents facts on an insurance […]
Hiring the Right People
Glassdoor, one of the world’s largest job and recruiting sites, commissioned a research study which concluded 95 percent of employers have made hiring mistakes by recruiting the wrong people. each year.[i] According to the Harvard Business Review, 80% of employee turnover occurs because of bad hiring decisions, often because the new hire did not fit […]