Small Business CIO - Eric D. Brown, D.Sc.

Small Business IT Outsourcing – don’t go too far

May 27, 2010 by Eric D. Brown, D.Sc.

Can all of the information technology assets within a small business be outsourced? Could we see the IT desks within small businesses be as empty as those in the photo? I hope not. The question of outsourcing all IT functions within a small business was asked of me by an acquaintance after she read two of … Read more

Small Business CIO – Manager of Constraints

April 22, 2010 by Eric D. Brown, D.Sc.

I received quite a few positive responses to my Small Business CIO post last week so I thought I’d continue the topic this week. Over the last few days I’ve been reading ReWork (affiliate link) by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson from 37Signals. Great book BTW…go pick it up now. In that book, the … Read more

About Eric

Eric D. Brown, D.Sc. is a technology consultant, investor and entrepreneur with an interest in using technology and data to solve real-world business problems. Eric currently runs his own consulting practice focused on helping organizations use their data more efficiently when combined with Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) and Natural Language Processing (NLP). Additionally, he is the Chief Information Officer of Sundial Capital Research, publisher of SentimenTrader

Eric received his Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) in Information Systems in 2014 with a dissertation titled “Analysis of Twitter Messages for Sentiment and Insight for use in Stock Market Decision Making”. His research interests are currently in the areas of decision support, data science, big data, natural language processing, sentiment analysis and social media analysis.In recent years, he has combined sentiment analysis, natural language processing and big data approaches to build innovative systems and strategies to solve interesting problems. You can read some of his research here: Eric D. Brown on ResearchGate

In addition, he is an entrepreneur that has launched a few companies with the most recent being a company focused on proving data analytics and visualization services to the financial markets.

Eric is also a semi-professional photographer and enjoys taking photographs when he can.