Analyst Profile

Alexander Linden

Research VP

5 years at Gartner , 33 years industry experience
Germany

Roles and Responsibilities

Alexander Linden is a Research VP, specializing in data science, machine learning and advanced algorithms. Dr. Linden helps clients with making buy vs. built vs. outsource decisions, various themes of data science governance, and aims to track the cutting edge in machine learning and artificial intelligence. (Note: Despite good conceptual understanding, my coverage does not include conversational interface, Q&A systems, chat bots).

Areas of Coverage

Business Intelligence

Alexander Linden's Recent Gartner Activity

Latest Research

A Roadmap for IT to Help Drive Machine Learning
20-Jun-2018
Doing Machine Learning Without Hiring (More) Data Scientists
27-Apr-2018
Vendor Rating: SAP
25-Apr-2018

On-Demand & Upcoming Webinars

Key Trends in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
22 March 2018

Background

Previous Experience

Prior to rejoining Gartner, Dr. Linden was an entrepreneur, advising The World Bank and Fraunhofer, and he founded two companies himself, one of which, clickworker.com, is still at the forefront of applying microwork (crowdsourcing) to text and image analytics, metadata extraction, and open innovation. Dr. Linden had his first stint at Gartner from 1998 to 2006, where he left as Research VP, Emerging Technologies. During that time, he was worldwide lead on advanced analytics, data mining and semantic technologies, and he initiated Gartner's ongoing series of annual Hype Cycle special reports. Before that, Dr. Linden assumed various midlevel to senior roles at GE and Dresdner Bank as a Data Scientist.

Professional Background

GE, Senior Data Scientist, 2 years
GMD German National Lab for Computer Science, Computer Scientist, 5 years
Gartner, Research VP, Emerging Trends and Technologies, 11 years

Industry Awards/Accolades

GE Management Award 1997 (built in-memory analytics that uncovered $xx million of losses)
Gartner Silver Award 2003 (initiated annual Hype Cycle Special Report)
Postdoctoral Fellowship 1994, International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley

Education

M.S., with distinction, Computer Science (Computational Linguistics minor), Bonn University
Ph.D., Machine Learning/Computer Science, Bielefeld University

Languages

English
German

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13 August 2018
2018 Hype Cycles: Riding the Innovation Wave, A Gartner Trend Insight Report Taking advantage of innovations in digital technologies to create new business models, services and experiences remains a priority for many organizations. New waves of innovation build on what has gone before to create new opportunities.
25 June 2018
Closing the Digital Talent Gap at Midsize Enterprises Midsize enterprises face big challenges to secure talent for digital business transformation. CIOs at MSEs must build an attractive culture, create a long-term workforce development plan, broaden talent search and capitalize on a distinctive employer brand to win the race for digital workers.

20 Aug 2018
How Digital Disruption Is Evolving PPM and PMO EDT: 10:00 a.m. | PDT: 7:00 a.m. | BST: 15:00 The core structure and capabilities of established project management offices (PMOs) are being disrupted and challenged by digitalization. Years ago, PMOs were designed to address a different set of challenges than those posed by digital transformation. In this webinar, we address how project portfolio management (PPM) leaders and PMOs can rise to the challenges of digitalization.
21 Aug 2018
Product Demand Forecasting Best Practices EDT: 10:00 a.m. | PDT: 7:00 a.m. | BST: 15:00 Companies struggle to effectively forecast product demand. This is especially true for new products being brought to market. A variety of methods for creating new product forecasts have emerged and evolved. This webinar provides guidance on existing and emerging practices for improving forecast accuracy and planning for new product launches.

Analyst Profile

Alexander Linden

Research VP

Roles and Responsibilities

Areas of Coverage

Alexander Linden's Recent Gartner Activity

Latest Research

On-Demand & Upcoming Webinars

Background

Previous Experience

Professional Background

Industry Awards/Accolades

Education

Languages

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