Info ChatWelcome to Info Chat! I hope you like the new site, more importantly, I hope you like the fact I’ve actually blogged again after an extremely long hiatus. But hey, if you’re going to take a hiatus, summer is the right time to do it I suppose.
So I’ve been thinking about the Bill Belichick scandal this weekend. For those who don’t follow sports, the head coach of the New England Patriots got caught using subterfuge and technology to steal playbooks and signals from an opponent, and was consequently heavily fined.
I wondered why Belichick would do this if he didn’t think the result would be worth the risk. And I think I know why - for the same reason corporations risk spending billions of dollars on technology like Business Intelligence, News Aggregation Services, CRM systems, and the like. Information can provide a huge competitive advantage (as proof - the Patriots won 3 of the last 6 Super Bowls).
All in all the whole scandal has now proved to be pretty beneficial to me - talk about unintended consequences. First, it validates the value proposition of Dow Jones, the company I work for. But more importantly, it gave me something to blog about on my brand new site! Thanks Bill.
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