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J.Crew’s Mickey Drexler Confesses: I Underestimated How Tech Would Upend Retail read the headline of a big feature in the Wall Street Journal, which ricocheted around the retail and technology world last week. The piece highlighted J.Crew's struggles under Drexler's leadership, which has resulted in ten consecutive quarters of falling sales. Yet the struggles of J.Crew, Gap, Ralph Lauren, Abercrombie & Fitch, American Apparel and many others goes beyond the simple explanation that they missed the impact of technology or a specific trend.

A Reuters report claims that Apple Inc. experience difficulty in attracting the best new minds in data science due to restrictive data retention policies

Situation AnalysisNever a day goes by without the issue of "Data" and "Semantics" popping up. Unfortunately, characterization of the aforementioned items ultimately confuse rather than clarify the important topic at hand. What is Data? I've published a detailed presentation on this topic on slideshare [1]. Basically, Data is how we express observation (what we experience) in reusable form. Actual data representation ultimately takes the form of entity relationships, inscribed to documents using a variety of notations, and then persisted using a variety