Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2012

This strategy makes perfect sense, and it aligns nicely with the way your company is probably organized — with the website, retail locations, and contact centers each in their neat little silo. Here are three of their most effective strategies. Can Big Data Smoke Out the Silent Majority?

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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.

Design 15

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, U.S. As part of the leadership at a strategy firm growing rapidly in frontier markets, there were times when I should have receive a notice akin to that “red star cluster” — and certainly times when I should have sent one but didn’t.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

To add to that, business buyers must justify a decision to others in the organization, especially as capital expenditures flow less liberally in many industries since the financial crisis of 2008. Choices are often false. Aligning buying and selling is a process, not a one-shot deal.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2015

Since 2008, according to a McKinsey study , companies have devoted more time and money to social networks and 20% less to e-mail communications. For years now, we have heard big talk about the big data behind big investments in social media. There are, as always, opportunity costs.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2014

The idea is that when you know that more customers or subscribers are cutting ties with your firm, you can work to adjust your marketing strategy or customer service approach. But sophisticated, data-rich firms are also starting to look at the number on an individual customer level.

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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. Lafley’s bold pare is part of a strategy to dramatically improve P&G’s financial performance by doubling down on the roughly 80 brands that generate 95% of the company’s profits and 90% of its sales.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Spun out of Carnegie Mellon’s materials science research department in 2008, Aquion now employs 130 workers, manufacturing batteries to store electricity generated by intermittent renewable resources. This is the kind of technology—and the type of firm—that will make renewable energy more efficient and more cost-effective.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2014

In 2008, the president of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, convened a commission to go beyond GDP that recommended a broader “dashboard” of variables to measure the health of a nation. Few if any businesses will see their forward strategy meaningfully determined by GDP. Academics have also joined the post-GDP party.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Cross-border flows of digitally transmitted data have grown manifold, accounting for more than one-third of the increase in global GDP in 2014, even as the free-flow of goods and services and cross-border capital have ebbed in the aftermath of the 2008 recession. Digital technologies are poised to change the future of work.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

After the 2008 financial crisis, business schools hastened to add ethics courses. Big data begets small minds. Fifty years later, on the eve of globalization, Drucker was still arguing that management is less like a science and more like a liberal art. Classes on personal growth and social impact have been on the rise since.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

For instance, the value at risk and other standard models that rating agencies used before the crisis in 2008 — the same thing happened there. There’s fear of being made responsible if something goes wrong, so they have developed a few strategies to deal with this fear. Big data has a long tradition in astronomy.

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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

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. They create a digital strategy, develop assets such as websites, emails, ads, and mobile apps, and then continuously monitor performance to optimize user engagement.

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