Hadooponomics

Our show this week features Cornelia Davis, the CTO of the Transformation Practice at Pivotal. Bringing Cornelia on the show allowed us to cover a lot of ground ranging from best practices for Big Data investments, all the way to closing the gender gap in high tech.   What I loved about Cornelia's background is that her job is to work with some of the largest Fortune 500 companies out there and to help them get value from their Big Data investments. She has a lot of experience to share and for the first half of the show we talk through areas where companies fail in their Big Data investments as well as what actions more often lead to successful outcomes.   From there we pivot into a discussion around Cornelia's other role as an advocate for gender equality in the technology realm. We dive into why the tech industry hasn't yet achieved gender parity (we are further away than where we were 20 years ago) and examine the underlying causes behind it. To me the most interesting point of the discussion rev