
Serious Insights
Thought leadership grounded in real leadership
Serious Insights is a boutique analyst firm dedicated to helping our customers navigate change effectively. Our clients ask us to help them rethink strategy, challenge assumptions about products and services, and discover new ways to learn from customers.
We stay close to technology by evaluating the most innovative, useful, and well-made hardware and software. We also contribute our own perspectives on industry news and emerging ideas.
Our Principal Analyst, Daniel W. Rasmus, a respected analyst with over 30 years of industry experience, leads Serious Insights’ research, reviews, and consulting engagements.
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Analysis, Reviews and Commentary have Appeared in…
- AI Expert
- Astronomy
- Business Partner Magazine
- Boing Boing
- Byte
- CIO and CIO.com
- Chief Learning Officer
- Computers In Libraries
- Crosscut
- Cyber Strategies at the Frontier of Law & Business
- Distributed Object Computing (columnist)
- FastCompany.com
- Geekwire.com
- Government ELearning!
- HBR.com
- InformationWeek
- Innovate (Fischler School of Education and Human Services, Nova Southeastern University)
- Insurance
- Intelligent Enterprise
- Intelligent Systems
- iPhoneLife (columnist)
- Knowledge Management Review
- MACazine
- MacGuide
- MacTech Quarterly
- MacToday
- MacUser
- MacWeek
- MacWorld
- Manufacturing Systems (editor)
- Mondo 2000
- NASA ASK
- Object Magazine (columnist)
- P&IM Review (columnist)
- PC AI (columnist & editor)
- PC Magazine
- PCWeek/eWEEK
- Pen Computing
- People Matters
- PopMatters
- Pund-IT
- Sales and Service Excellence
- Startups Magazine
- Strategy+Business
- Talent Management
- The African Business Review
- The Office
- University Business
- UNIX Review
- Wired
- Workstation News
Recent and Upcoming Events
Comic-Con International
The Science of Science Fiction: All Your Questions Answered
Semantic Data NYÂ
Meet with Dan in New York to talk about AI, taxnonomies, ontologies, knowledge graphs and the future of work.
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Semantic Data New York 2025:Â Taxonomy, Ontology, and Knowledge Graph
Returning in 2025, this one-day conference gathers data leaders to explore semantic technologies shaping the AI era. Led by conference chair Madi Weland Solomon of Graphifi, sessions cover taxonomy, ontology, knowledge graphs, and AI applications.
Discover practical insights and real-world use cases from media, life sciences, eCommerce, and pharma. Network with industry peers and access the latest innovations at the co-located DAM New York event.
Designed for data managers, taxonomists, and DAM professionals, this event offers essential strategies to leverage semantic data and stay ahead in a fast-evolving field.

KMWorld
AI, agents, knowledge graphs and KM strategy. More to come.
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Hellmouth Con
Learning about scenario planning through the Buffyverse.
APQC 2025 Process & KM Conference
We’ll shine a spotlight on knowledge explorer Daniel W. Rasmus, where we’ll explore innovative strategies and cutting-edge approaches that defy the status quo, aiming to integrate, influence and impact new horizons.
In this eye-opening session, Dan will reveal why knowledge management is the hidden force driving successful AI implementation. Explore real-world examples of how to apply knowledge management principles to generative AI development and deployment. Demystify the human element behind AI success. Gain the tools to make your AI more trustworthy, efficient, and adaptable to change, and strategies that will help you embrace the future of AI with confidence and a competitive edge.
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