The National Investment Company Services Association (NICSA) will have its 32nd Annual Conference this February. The conference has been rebranded as a Strategic Leadership Forum with the topic centering on Globalization. (Officially – and redundantly – it is: “Managing the Investment Firm in a Global

This post originally appeared as a guest blog on the National Investment Company Services Association (NICSA) website  here.  In his recent book, The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail – but Some Don’t , Nate Silver looks at the use of Big

The connection between failure and innovation is twofold. On the one hand the inability to innovate can lead to failure as Clayton Christensen pointed out in the Innovator’s Dilemma: “Occasionally however, disruptive technologies emerge: innovations that result in worseproduct performance, at least in the near-term.