Machine Learning 101
Machine Learning is everywhere. We use it in our daily lives to find faster routes between home and work, to meet new friends on social media apps, and sometimes, to buy things we didn’t…
Read MoreIf It Ain’t Broke, Break It – Reflections From the Twin Cities Chaos Day
What is Chaos Engineering? Chaos Engineering is “the discipline of experimenting on a distributed system in order to build confidence in the system’s capability to withstand turbulent conditions…
SingleStone’s Evolution
In 2006, I joined SingleStone with one simple goal: demonstrate how consulting can be done differently. I have always loved solving problems across organizations, from my early career…
SingleStone’s Product Expertise
We live in a world of immediacy. Do you want a very-berry peanut butter smoothie? Just click “yes” on your favorite mobile app, and it will be at your doorstep in…
SingleStone’s Software Expertise
These days, software isn’t just a helpful business tool — it can define the difference between growth and stagnation. And the truth is: Your legacy software is hindering…
SingleStone’s Data Expertise
More than likely, your organization is generating massive amounts of data. In fact, typical data-centric enterprises manage more than 10 billion files annually — and that number is…
SingleStone’s Cloud Expertise
Gone are the expensive, onerous days of managing offsite data centers. Today’s business environment demands the speed and agility that only the cloud offers. But, just because you’re…
Flyzone: Scrum Lessons From the 4×100 Relay
One of SingleStone’s Scrum coaches makes an insightful comparison between Agile and the 4x100m relay. I love the 4x100m relay (in the track world it is known as…
Start With Why: Three Questions to Help CX Leaders Create Focus
Removing distractions and starting with the “why” to guide your company’s customer experience saves time and money. Businesses have a lot of digital distractions these days. It’s hard…
Thriving Inside a Company That Has No Strategy
Operating inside an organization without a strategy can be tough. Here’s how to bring strategic thinking into your own work. Strategy, in the business context, deals with a…
CloudFormation Mapping and Conditionals: Making Your Templates More Universal
Learn about infrastructure as code and the benefits of AWS CloudFormation. Updated November 2019: When I originally wrote this article, CloudFormation was written in JSON only. Thank goodness…
Hallmark 3: Eliminate Friction
In an era where technological advances happen at an accelerated pace, companies must find and retain tech talent. Finding tech talent is one of the biggest challenges facing…
Hallmark 4: Foster Creativity
We are in an era of rapid technological change, and this change is forcing companies to rethink how they view technology, how they communicate with customers and workers,…
Hallmark 5: Cultivate Experimentation
Artificial intelligence, robotics, augmented reality- these are just a few of the technologies at the heart of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, a period of rapid technological change the…
Hallmark 2: Empower Teams
Frustrating bottlenecks. Sluggish decision making. Lackluster results. Waste, waste, and more waste. We’ve all seen and likely experienced all these things. They are a common byproduct of traditional…
Hallmark 1: Infuse Data
Today, many traditional companies are finding that they must become technology companies to compete in a global market. And they are discovering that a wealth of customer data…
SingleStone’s Top Five Hallmarks of Tomorrow’s Tech Companies
The world is entering the Fourth Industrial Revolution, a technological revolution that is changing the way people live, work, and relate to each other. The technologies at the heart…
SingleStone Case Study: Software for Course and Work Management
How SingleStone helped Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of Nursing design and build a software product to plan course schedules and manage faculty work assignments. About VCU’s School of…
SingleStone Case Study: Streamline Supplier Management
How SingleStone’s custom-built tools helped a Fortune 500 company streamline a supplier management process About Capital One Financial Corporation is a leading information-based technology company focused on helping its…
SingleStone Case Study: Enabling Real-time Streaming Data
How SingleStone helped a Fortune 500 financial institution enable real-time streaming data for machine learning. About Capital One Financial Corporation is a leading information-based technology company focused on helping…