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.

Usually when a concept hits the popular press, it’s time to look for the next new thing.  For the past two weeks the term Meta-Data has been all over the news thanks to a disclosure of a National Security Agency (NSA) program to capture data