Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

Few industries illustrate the Big Data wars better than the media business. Using their treasure troves of information on online customer viewing habits, they''re designing new TV series that their data tells them will win. The Big Data wars are hardly limited to the media industry.

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Big Data Data Company Survey 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2014

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. Last year, Nature reported that Flu Trends overestimated by 50% the peak Christmas season flu of 2012.

Big Data 11

Big Data Data Trends Underperforming Technical Team 11

Information Playground

JUNE 18, 2015

'How much is Big Data worth? My keynote focused on the emerging area of  enterprise data value. I began with a quote from a recent  Big Data report  by Capgemini and EMC. The company makes the Babolat Play racket that generates data as you play. Nobody knows.'

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Data Big Data Conference Policies 28

Adam Hartung

JUNE 14, 2016

Users will be thrilled to have their personal information analyzed by Microsoft big data tools, then sold to advertisers and recruiters. Don’t feel bad if you don’t remember, because i n 2012 Microsoft wrote it off. Of course, there was the buy-it-and-write-it-off pattern repeated with Nokia. Even the $1.2B

Tools 36

Tools Collaboration Project Big Data 36

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2012

For people selling in a B2B context, Big Data can be extremely useful — but amid all the celebration over this powerful new way of doing business, it's important to keep in mind its limits. In other words, beyond the data, what do your customers say when you are not around? BIG DATA INSIGHT CENTER.

Data 17

Data Tools Big Data Trends 17

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2012

For people selling in a B2B context, Big Data can be extremely useful — but amid all the celebration over this powerful new way of doing business, it's important to keep in mind its limits. In other words, beyond the data, what do your customers say when you are not around? BIG DATA INSIGHT CENTER.

Data 17

Data Tools Big Data Trends 17

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2012

After seven long years of preparation, the London 2012 Olympic Games are finally underway, and even the notoriously critical British press is falling into line. But with the benefit of hindsight, the more Britain has struggled economically, the more important London 2012 is in its potential revival.

Big Data 17

Big Data Marketing Strategy Strategy 17

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2012

They're already good at analyzing structured data from previous incidents and real-time oceanographic conditions — and they're definitely seeing some results. But travelers and businesses still face a big challenge from pirates. BIG DATA INSIGHT CENTER. What Should You Tell Customers About How You're Using Data?

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Meeting Big Data Data Trends 18

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2012

They're already good at analyzing structured data from previous incidents and real-time oceanographic conditions — and they're definitely seeing some results. But travelers and businesses still face a big challenge from pirates. BIG DATA INSIGHT CENTER. What Should You Tell Customers About How You're Using Data?

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Meeting Big Data Data Trends 18

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2014

Not a week goes by without us publishing something here at HBR about the value of data in business. Big data, small data, internal, external, experimental, observational — everywhere we look, information is being captured, quantified, and used to make business decisions. Why data matters.

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Data Management Big Data Analysis 21

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Six years ago, the primary focus of questions and answers in the survey was big data, which was relatively new on the business scene. There is both a stronger feeling that big data and AI projects deliver value and a greater concern that established firms will be disrupted by startups.

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Data Artificial Inteligence Culture Big Data 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Time magazine just published a fascinating account of how President Obama's campaign team used data to microtarget voters. At HBR, we've been tracking the rise of Big Data in the private sector for some time, and see this as a useful case study of how one organization actually implemented those analytic principles to get results.

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Data Big Data Case Study System 18

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2014

Starting in 2012, my colleagues and I began taking a closer look at the hands-on experience of data scientists. At Stanford, I conducted 35 interviews of data analysts from 25 organizations across a variety of sectors, including health care, retail, marketing, and ?

Big Data 15

Big Data Analysis Underperforming Technical Team Change 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

HBR's editors have compiled a list of some of our — and your — favorite of the nearly 2000 blog posts we published in 2012. Big Data's Management Revolution. Gianpiero Petriglieri. How to Attend a Conference as Yourself. Peter Bregman. Just How Powerful Are You? Nilofer Merchant. Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee.

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Disruption Big Data Conference Data 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2013

A bit of background: We launched #GivingTuesday in September 2012 and just 75 days later — four days after Thanksgiving — Americans in all 50 states came together to inaugurate a new "opening day" for the giving season. A New Type of Philanthropy: Donating Data. Nonprofits: Master "Medium Data" Before Tackling Big Data.

Change 19

Change LEAN Big Data Groups 19

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

This is the most frequent complaint I hear from the competitive intelligence analysts in my certification classes: their marketing bosses are exceedingly tactical in their requests for competitive data. The rise of Big Data seems to have only exacerbated this tendency. And I understand the appeal. The New Tools of Marketing.

Marketing 15

Marketing Data Underperforming Technical Team Big Data 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

workers say they are "not engaged" or "actively disengaged" with their work, according to Gallup''s ongoing study of the American workplace from 2010 through 2012. In 2012, according to U.S. Department of Commerce data, online spending reached almost $200 billion. A stunning 70% of U.S. It''s estimated that each U.S.

Big Data 10

Big Data Data Strategy Strategy 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2012

But no less planned or executed than another viral blockbuster — the OMGPOP team's March 2012 breakout of Draw Something , a Pictionary-like game. The result : by late March 2012, Draw Something had 15 million daily players and was the Apple AppStore's #1 word game in 84 countries. The Invisible Children, Inc. Emergent, yes.

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Design Collaboration Video Big Data 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

More than half (52 percent) of respondents who graduated in 2012 and 2013 and managed to find jobs tell us they did not receive any formal training in those positions. Here, a good example might be early training in data analysis and visualization. Lay the groundwork for future contributions.

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Underperforming Technical Team Training Survey Big Data 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

In January 2012 , the company also launched One Day Auto Insurance – a new kind of auto insurance that can be purchased on mobile phones. Thus, in 2012, Luminar was born. Luminar is a dedicated business unit that shifted from delivering internal analytics to offering big data as a service to external clients.

Technology 14

Technology Data Policies Survey 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2012

According to a 2012 survey by Jobsite, 54% of recruiters use Twitter, 66% Facebook, and a whopping 97% LinkedIn, as recruitment tools. Big data can provide the best answer to the big questions in talent identification, if we ask the right questions of the data.

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Artificial Inteligence Data Big Data Survey 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

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.

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Software Software Engineering Data Software Developers 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2014

Which player was ESPN’s SportsCenter most discussed during the 2012 football season? Can you give me an example of an infographic that’s good at boiling down a mass of big data? This is something infographics are naturally designed to do – give you the gist of a really big data set. Seriously?).

Big Data 15

Big Data Data Design Tools 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2013

You’re probably a little tired of hearing about Big Data. The good news is that Big Data is making a difference in places and ways you might not expect, particularly in human resources. What is the impact of learning programs on company results? Consequently, your analytics must be: Relevant.

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Company Change Big Data Data 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

But new sources of crop, weather, and other data have created new opportunities to boost farm productivity. John Deere’s Intelligent Solutions Group has turned real-time data, crowdsourced from thousands of the company’s customers, into services enabled by Big Data.

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Artificial Inteligence Software Engineering Company Software 16

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2013

Despite predictions by some pundits that many sales jobs would disappear due to the Internet and "big data", companies continue to invest in sales forces in a big way. billion spent on all media advertising in 2012 and more than 20 times the estimated $39.5 billion spent on Internet advertising in 2012.

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Underperforming Technical Team Big Data Data Marketing 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Using the latest Plan Sponsor Council of America data, 22.8% Assuming the opt-in take up rate of 25.1%, as reported in my 2012 research with Ehud Peleg and Richard Thaler, that’s an under-statement of more than five million participants (75.4 million participants x 25.1 percent take up rate x 29.9 percent of plans.).

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Tools Big Data Data Study 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2013

The promise of digital marketing continues to grow as big data gets bigger and is turbo charged with mobile and social. Data from the 2012 Direct Marketing Association benchmarks say that direct mail — yes junk mail via snail mail — still reigns supreme, offering response rates of 1.1 Then social spam.

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Marketing Change Big Data Data 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2013

A bit of background: We launched #GivingTuesday in September 2012 and just 75 days later — four days after Thanksgiving — Americans in all 50 states came together to inaugurate a new "opening day" for the giving season. A New Type of Philanthropy: Donating Data. Nonprofits: Master "Medium Data" Before Tackling Big Data.

Change 12

Change LEAN Big Data Groups 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

In our group at Merck, we are witnessing this opportunity firsthand as we collaborate with start-ups in the areas of digital health, big data, and health IT. billion in 2013, up 39% from 2012. Access to data is enabling us to better understand and address problems.

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Entrepreneurship Policies Data Big Data 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2018

This proliferation of data (both meaningful and meaningless) and the workload created by EHR systems have been key drivers of clinician burnout and, paradoxically, introduced new threats to patient safety. What is more, relying only on EHR data greatly limits the insights derived from artificial intelligence algorithms or big data analytics.

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Software Review Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Data 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

As early as 2012, the company saw the potential of big data in the agriculture industry. Even in its 181 st year of existence, John Deere has revolutionized the agriculture industry through the creation of the most encompassing eco-system for agricultural products.

Radical Innovation 15

Radical Innovation Disruption Technical Review Software Review 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

FUN WITH BIG DATA. By setting up data puzzles on the website Kaggle, he's banked on people's desire to win (as opposed to their interest in getting paid) to solve useful problems. Sociological Images) Ballot Design With Todd Oldham (The New York Times) Presidential Campaign Commercials, 1952-2012 (Museum of the Moving Image).

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Big Data Data Leadership Study 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2016

With the growth of big data, it is tempting to hope that forecasting will get better. But some forecasts focus too much on macro data, like GDP, urbanization, and population growth. But the choice of house and climate is easy to measure, whereas a set of big data on parental motivations does not exist.

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Big Data Data Trends Exercises 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

But the advent of Big Data, sophisticated modeling techniques, and robust algorithms are opening a door to cooperation and opportunities that have never been possible before. Both practices have long developed insights into their customers based on data and analytics.

Data 14

Data Marketing Exercises Collaboration 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

And tracking has become steadily more prevalent as marketing’s appetite for “big data” and “personalized” ad messages has grown from hunger to gluttony. Google followed in 2012. But that’s what you get when you visit most advertising-supported commercial websites, whether you want it or not.

Marketing 14

Marketing Data Tools Big Data 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

The system was already tested by Hurricane Irene in 2011 and Hurricane Sandy in 2012. “But the advances in big data, software, fiber optics and digital wireless communications now really bring it alive.” Starting in 2009, the company reached out to GE and started building a “self-healing” grid.

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Technical Review Software Review Survey Big Data 8