Saturday, December 5, 2009

Who is an expert?


In today's world specialization rules. Professionals active in any industry vertical always specialize in very narrow areas of business, technology, medicine, management, financial services, etc. This is clearly seen in domain of IT where some people spend nearly a lifetime to become true experts in just one system or platform (e.g. .NET or SAP specialist), or in medicine where hundreds of specializations (e.g. hand or brain surgeon). When we call somebody a "telecom specialist" or "expert in money trading" we usually mean that they are specialists in some specific areas like radio communications or foreign exchange, respectively.

I have been active in IT and Telecom for 30 years but I would hardly call myslelf a "Telco expert". I am indeed an expert in service creation, service delivery platforms, telecom middleware, and a few other areas, but ask me about optoelectronic or voice codex - I know they what they are, but in these topics I an a layman rather than expert.

Therefore, if we want to measure our "level of expertise" we need to do this in a very narrow areas. This observation is the corner stone of Azouk Expert Rating algorithm that aims at providing an objective way of measuring the "expertise" of industry professionals in all relevant areas of their domain (industry vertical).

The Expert Rating is also applied to professional content, like papers, presentations, market updates, product descriptions, blog posts, etc. In this case, we can measure the "relevance" of a content iteme to specific topics, technologies, standards, services, etc. By doing semantic analysis and applaying Expert Rating we can quickly asses that a piece of news provides an interesting insight into the adoption of "WiMAX" in "emerging markets" (high rating) whereas information provided there about "Voice over IP" is rather poor or irrelevant (low rating).


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