Remove 2011 Remove Big Data Remove Software Review
article thumbnail

Tech Disruptor – The Process Mining Unicorn Celonis

ITONICS

Imagine losing hours of productivity each day due to unnecessary steps in business processes. The students applied data mining to detect insights and patterns that established companies are struggling to identify. Celonis, as a software provider, is seeking to disrupt the management consulting sector. How did it start?

article thumbnail

Google Flu Trends’ Failure Shows Good Data > Big Data

Harvard Business Review

In their best-selling 2013 book Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think , authors Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier selected Google Flu Trends (GFT) as the lede of chapter one. In short, you wouldn’t have needed big data at all to do better than Google Flu Trends.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

For some time now we’ve been living into a smarter world filled with Big Data and analytics, and a more connected one that’s been described as “ the internet of things.” ” In this world, customers expect their suppliers to surround their products with data services and digitally enhanced experiences.

article thumbnail

Research: A Strong Privacy Policy Can Save Your Company Millions

Harvard Business Review

Studying hundreds of data breaches, our research has found that they create significant ripples that affect other companies in the industry. Our research shows that data breaches sometimes harm a firm’s close rivals (due to spillover effects), but sometimes help them (due to competitive effects).

article thumbnail

To Hire Great Coders, Offer Learning Not Just Money

Harvard Business Review

The researchers looked at the gap between how much IT workers made in their current job and how much they listed as their “target” salary when job searching, using data from Glassdoor.com from between 2006 and 2011. The bigger the difference, the more the workers must value other non-monetary things in their current job.

article thumbnail

Still the Sexiest Profession Alive

Harvard Business Review

Data scientists are very much in demand as companies grapple with the challenge of making valuable discoveries from Big Data. They’re often exotic, coming from data-oriented scientific backgrounds rather than MBA programs. Of course it’s a good thing to see the growing availability of data science programs in academia.

article thumbnail

Reverse Innovation in Tech Startups: The Story of Capillary Technologies

Harvard Business Review

In 2011, Capillary began looking beyond emerging markets for further growth. More interestingly, they realized that the retail software solutions available in developed markets were far too complex and expensive for most retailers'' segments compared with Capillary''s simpler, bottoms-up CRM based-solution.