Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

For example, our survey, which asked managers of 13 functions, from sales and marketing to procurement and finance, to indicate whether their departments were using AI in 63 core areas, found AI was used most frequently in detecting and fending off computer security intrusions in the IT department. Could Liberate 50% of Managers' Time.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2012

That's why the shipping giant formed the Channel Strategy and Orchestration team in 2008: to solve the problems that occur when customers move from one channel to another, like going from a website to a phone agent. Can Big Data Smoke Out the Silent Majority? What Data Can't Tell You About Customers.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2014

The first: managing the "deep – and increasing – seasonality in Alibaba''s sales." According to Jack Levis, the company''s head of data, one minute per driver per day is worth $14.5 Managing yourself' Then the company will have to smartly deal with its "take rate" – how much money it keeps for itself with each transaction.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, U.S. I recently discussed the issue of managing through uncertainty with retired U.S. Petraeus has managed uncertainty of global scope and with the highest stakes. Does this mean managers at the top of the organization get a break? It’s not an instinct limited to the wild.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2012

Big data" analytics with real-world guides let you see big-picture patterns and micro-trends with astonishing precision, in time to seize the day or head off disaster. Transforming effects to results requires strategy, management, and even more collaboration. Predicting the Future Faster, Sooner. That's by design.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Marketing managers will typically look at churn rate at a segment level — how many of our 18-25 year old customers left this month, for example. But sophisticated, data-rich firms are also starting to look at the number on an individual customer level. What are common mistakes managers make when using it?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2015

Even more important to the redesign of GE, this portfolio of products has been a growth engine, providing ballast against the serious pain of the financial meltdown of 2008. Consider even the digital world and the rise of big data, which on the surface seems like a way to lighten our collective load on natural resources.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

The typical funnel starts with a marketing-generated lead for a “suspect” that, after qualification, becomes a “prospect,” and then a customer through steps that are measured and managed. That is, core solution-selling and account-management skills still matter. Choices are often false.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Hospital consolidation is on the rise , a trend that shows no signs of abating as providers try to streamline back-end operations and deploy big data analytics in hopes of improving outcomes and lowering costs. Moore left his practice in 2008 to help build a movement around what is called the Ideal Medical Practices or IMP.

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MARCH 3, 2015

But few have measures or even have accountable managers in place for their social media investments, and only 7% say their organizations “understand the exact value at stake from digital.” For years now, we have heard big talk about the big data behind big investments in social media.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

Lafley launches a “game changer” profoundly different than what he championed in his eponymous 2008 bestseller. “Importantly, this will be a much simpler, much less complex company of leading brands that’s easier to manage and operate.” Big Data clearly becomes a big future winner in this strategic scenario.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Drucker Forum 2018 This article is one in a series related to the 10th Global Peter Drucker Forum , with the theme “ Management. It is impossible to attend a management or technology conference these days without hearing some version of that call for more humanism in tech. News of his demise, however, turned out to be premature.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

At times this belief has led the managing director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin into pretty fierce debates with his intellectual opponents. What’s the problem with the way that turkey approached risk management? But the same managers would never admit this in public. But he feeds you.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

The Economic Information Daily newspaper says more than 400 bosses abandoned their factories in a single province in 2008. How eBay Uses Data and Analytics to Get Closer to Its (Massive) Customer Base Sloan Management Review. There''s Big Data and then there''s Big Data at eBay. Selective Bidding.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 4, 2020

McKinsey, in their many articles covering the Covid-19 crisis, calls for the advent of a strictly pragmatic approach to business, people management and, as a matter of fact, life. Everybody can make it big time, by launching their own start-up. The Future doesn’t exist anymore. Let’s tackle the ‘here and now’. We are all unicorns.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Big data, it has been said, is making science obsolete. No longer do we need theories of genetics or linguistics or sociology, Wired editor Chris Anderson wrote in a manifesto four years ago : "With enough data, the numbers speak for themselves.". It's a process that uses data to refine our thinking. More >>.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Big data, it has been said, is making science obsolete. No longer do we need theories of genetics or linguistics or sociology, Wired editor Chris Anderson wrote in a manifesto four years ago : "With enough data, the numbers speak for themselves.". It's a process that uses data to refine our thinking. More >>.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Now, a week after Election Day, a clear trend has emerged in some of these pieces: The campaigns that did well with their big data efforts did well in the election. Two stories in particular call out the impact of big data on campaigns. So what kinds of things was the Obama camp able to do with this big data trove?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

For the 2008 presidential race, Barack Obama hired one of Facebook’s early employees, Chris Hughes, to drive the campaign’s technology strategy. But volunteers relied on mobile-friendly technology like messaging service Slack to share knowledge and manage tasks, roles, and responsibilities.

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