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Big Data's Management Revolution

Harvard Business Review

Big data has the potential to revolutionize management. Simply put, because of big data, managers can measure, and hence know, radically more about their businesses, and directly translate that knowledge into improved decision making and performance. Case #1: Using Big Data to Improve Predictions.

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Why Can't a CIO Be More Like a CFO?

Harvard Business Review

It''s time for CIOs to move beyond their roles as chief technology officers, and embrace the name with all of its implications: Chief Information Officer. According to the 2012 IDC/EMC report on the digital universe (PDF) , it''s doubling every two years. They have remained, instead, CTO''s.