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7 Things Every CEO Should Know About Their Patents

Anaqua

Turning to R&D, innovation, and IP data and analytics, we are nowhere near that maturity in terms of depth, resources, or evolution in metrics and analytics – and this should give us all an important reminder that there is “gold in them hills” – we are nowhere near diminishing returns and hubris here is fatal. End of 2012 $7,473.

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

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How to Actually Put Your Marketing Data to Use

Harvard Business Review

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. This helps keep the team’s efforts focused.

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The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century is Tedious, and that Needs to Change

Harvard Business Review

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 ?

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The Peril of Untrained Entry-Level Employees

Harvard Business Review

Just-released findings of the Accenture 2014 College Graduate Employment Survey offer good news and bad news for employers of entry-level talent. First the bad news: most of those employers aren’t doing much to provide their new hires with the training and support they need to get their careers off to a strong start.

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Are You Paying Enough Attention to Your Sales Force?

Harvard Business Review

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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Research: A Strong Privacy Policy Can Save Your Company Millions

Harvard Business Review

For an example of competitor harm due to these spillover effects, consider the July 2012 Nvidia data breach, which affected 400,000 user accounts. Empowered customers are more willing to share information and are more forgiving of data privacy breaches, remaining loyal after the fact, as we learned.