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More and more organizations plan “to do something” with blockchain technology, but often struggle to identify use cases. Before you can see its potential applications, you must understand both blockchain technology and your organization’s transactions in depth. This three-part series explores ways to find blockchain use cases, beginning with the problems it can solve.

The transformation of an organization into an agile one requires a carefully planned strategic approach. The success or failure of a transition towards greater speed, agility, and flexibility depends on organizational structure, collaboration style, and communication. Another requirement for success is support from the highest level. In the end, the goals of the transformation should be clearly communicated to the entire organization.

We all dream of being a rocket scientist
Everybody's inner geek probably has an inner rocket scientist that has probably contributed great theoretical advances to inner rocket science, advances that the real world is probably not ready for at present! :) The past couple of months I have had the pleasure of letting my inner geek rocket scientist out to play with the actual rocket scientists! I wanted to share some of my experiences.

What challenges do data-driven organizations face? What are the most popular technologies and providers? How do organizations in various countries implement data applications? Data Survey 2018, the largest market research on the use of data provides answers to these questions and insight into global developments when it comes to the use of data.

There is a new trend going around in IT Operations, one which has been hard to miss: AIOps. Ever since Gartner coined the term, this approach of collecting IT Operations data and applying machine learning to it to gain insights to benefit your business has really taken off. While the benefits for Ops are fairly clear, will this trend also benefit developers? You bet! Read on to find out how.

At GoDataDriven we enjoy sharing our skills. During Dutch Data Science Week our consultants were invited to lead a few training sessions. For example, Ivo Everts lead a signal processing training, Rodrigo Agundez shared his insights during a deep learning training. Check out the videos!

Dutch Data Science Week provided data scientists the opportunity to apply their skills during various hackathons on topics that have societal impact. Reducing energy waste, preventing heart attacks, and improving city life.

Participants enjoyed the opportunity to apply, learn and share their skills during three hackathons. For Eneco, UMCG and the 2-Day hackathon for the City of Amsterdam the after-movies are available here. Check out the videos!

During Dutch Data Science Week several meetups took place on various topics. Watch the after-movies of the Blockchain in Business meetup and the Data Donderdag meetup. 

Blockchain in Business Meetup with Schiphol – Transavia – Zorginstituut – Ledger Leopard and Safeguard App!

At the Heineken Experience the 22nd edition of the Data Donderdag meetup took place. During this edition, the following speakers took center stage: Nelli Gofman (Heineken), Stefan van Heukelum (KLM) and Kicky van Leeuwen (GoDataDriven/UMCG). Check out the videos!

In the previous post I stated that there is more need for engineering talent, and that there is a war on talent going on which will only increase. However, we see many organisations that have trouble hiring engineers, and even then there is a high chance that these new hires leave within a year - sometimes even within a month. The reason is that those organisations do not provide the right environment - they do not understand the engineer’s mindset. In this part of this series we will talk about what the engineering mindset is.