Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

It’s common to see surveys, polls, and reports showing that “most” organizations are embracing big data. For instance, a 2013 Gartner survey found that 64% of enterprises were deploying or planning big data projects, up from 58% the year before. Second, they’re inconsistent with the history of technology.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2012

It's that time of year again — time to take a stab at what's going to matter in the year ahead as technology continues to influence how we work and live. In no particular order, here are six social-digital trends to watch in 2013: The Content Economy Content may become your company's most valuable asset in 2013.

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Integrative Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2016

Hence, I gave it some thought, starting by revisting an earlier reflection: Beginning of 2013, Tim Kastelle and I identified four key issues in innovation management for the time to come. In particular for industrial products this, in turn, has been stimulated by maturing 3D printing technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2014

When Raja Rajamannar became CMO of MasterCard Worldwide in 2013, he moved quickly to transform how the credit card giant measures marketing. His artillery: Advanced Big Data analytics. MasterCard had always been a data-driven organization. Rajamannar involved finance early.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

We hope you'll find some insights here you may have missed the first time around, and that they'll help you make 2013 a productive and innovative year for your company and yourself. Why Big Companies Can't Innovate. Big Data's Management Revolution. Innovation, Especially the Disruptive Kind, Seemed as Difficult as Ever.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2015

At the end of each year, I apply a framework to surface the most important emerging trends in digital media and emerging technology for the year ahead. It analyzes consumer behavior, microeconomic trends, government policies, market forces, and emerging research within the context of our continually-evolving tech and digital media ecosystem.

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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. subscribers in the first quarter of 2013, a 7% increase over the previous quarter. billion.

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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. In short, you wouldn’t have needed big data at all to do better than Google Flu Trends.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

Investment in AI is growing and is increasingly coming from organizations outside the tech space. While it’s clear that CEOs need to consider AI’s business implications, the technology’s nascence in business settings makes it less clear how to profitably employ it.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Companies in all industries are trying to capitalize on the Big Data revolution with the belief that the ability to collect and quickly analyze huge streams of data will provide new insights, better decisions, and a better customer experience. Tune in now to learn how you can make your IT projects successful in 2013.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2012

Last year, they alone drove 38% of the market share of league revenue last year — due in no small part to Lin. An Industry Scorecard on Big Data Business Challenges (Oracle). Oracle recently surveyed 333 executives across 11 industries to gauge the growth of Big Data. Even Lin's former employer.

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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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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

My own firm released a survey recently of 835 large companies (with an average revenue of $20 billion) that predicts a net job loss of between 4% and 7% in key business functions by the year 2020 due to AI. And it wasn’t just to detect a hacker’s moves in the data center. AI wasn’t new at Microsoft.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

His solution, in 2013, was to create a Facebook page called “Residents of Via Fondazza—Bologna” which he promoted by posting flyers in his neighborhood. As early as the 1960s, Peter Drucker told managers that the thorniest problems they faced in applying technology were not of a technical nature, but human ones.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

I could not be a bigger proponent of technology. My day job as a venture capitalist focuses on innovations in digital media and big data, and new models of business information and community connectivity. Which, leads me to three resolutions for 2013 that all swim against the mass-connectivity tide: 1.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

Advances in technology — especially digital technology and the increasing role of software in products and services — are demanding that large, successful organizations increase their pace of innovation and make greater use of resources outside their boundaries. Innovation Strategy Technology' So how does it work?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2013

But what really fueled #GivingTuesday was not technology tactics or whiz-bang applications; it was a mindset built around four principles, ones that can apply to many organizations seeking to use social media to create change. Can Technology End Poverty? A New Type of Philanthropy: Donating Data.

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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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Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

But ongoing changes in policy, technology, and industry culture are now creating unprecedented opportunities for those with just the right kind of crazy. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

This is the kind of technology—and the type of firm—that will make renewable energy more efficient and more cost-effective. Indeed, in a world where globalization and rapid technological changes are the norm, manufacturing, high-tech development, and innovation clearly require a different level of support.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

What, another clarion call urging executives to fundamentally rethink their business models through digital technology? Yet huge opportunities exist in using digital technology to evolve your business model by rethinking your existing products, economic models, and digital assets. The business media have had no shortage of these.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

The marketers of Clearblue Advanced Pregnancy Test, a product that can tell you if you’re one-week, two-weeks, or three-plus weeks pregnant, asked a couple of D-list celebrities to tweet out their positive tests back in 2013. Women, in general, were offended, taking to Amazon to write some very creative reviews.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2015

This continues a trend The Association of National Advertisers first reported in 2013. An executive from one of the world’s largest ad agencies told me that his company was too big – and consequently, too slow — to compete in the lightning-fast digital space. Agencies are slow.

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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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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2014

ESPN recruited Nate Silver to run his famed data journalism blog, FiveThirtyEight, under its umbrella. Sure, you may say, tech-savvy startups are doing great, but old-line publishers, like magazines and newspapers are doomed. Clearly, there’s no shortage of opportunities in online publishing. Aren’t they?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2013

Today most if not all industries are impacted by digitization—mobile technology, big data, and the like. This article is adapted from the HBR interview with Ram Charan, You Can’t Be a Wimp, Make the Tough Calls found in the November 2013 issue of HBR. How P&G Presents Data to Decision Makers.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2014

Data scientists, supported by the stunning growth in the gathering and processing of so-called big data, can extract patterns from massive stores of browsing and sales data in order to predict our likes and dislikes and tailor marketing experiences to us. Big data flexed its muscles. But there is a problem.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2015

We need dramatic improvements in energy and water efficiency, and massive rollouts of renewable energy and clean transportation technologies. Consider even the digital world and the rise of big data, which on the surface seems like a way to lighten our collective load on natural resources. Russia, and India would be the cloud.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

In 2013, the company released a service called Virtual Technician to help existing drivers while also enabling new business models and revenue streams. Disruptive innovation Information & technology Internet' Why is repair service so maddening? Build and share a transformative vision. Take a look at your business.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

In 2013, the company released a service called Virtual Technician to help existing drivers while also enabling new business models and revenue streams. Disruptive innovation Information & technology Internet' Why is repair service so maddening? Build and share a transformative vision. Take a look at your business.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Hospital consolidation is on the rise , a trend that shows no signs of abating as providers try to streamline back-end operations and deploy big data analytics in hopes of improving outcomes and lowering costs. However these can usually be overcome through planning, technology, and tenaciousness. The attempts to “fix” the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2013

But what really fueled #GivingTuesday was not technology tactics or whiz-bang applications; it was a mindset built around four principles, ones that can apply to many organizations seeking to use social media to create change. Can Technology End Poverty? A New Type of Philanthropy: Donating Data.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

This is disturbing coming from a company so adept at cutting-edge customer analytics that it’s selling analytics services and has refused to divulge the names of its tech staff at Hadoop conferences to prevent them from being poached. Apparently, it was big data. The results are spectacular. In Jan-Feb 1998, Anthony J.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2013

82% of the CEOs in the survey said they were going to spend time changing their customer strategies in 2013. Some of that focus on customer strategy in the survey translates into increasing use of analytics and big data. And third, how do you interact with customers both personally and enabled by technology?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2013

Big data is rolling in after it. Pew's January 2013 poll drives this point home — their survey found that a mere 26% of Americans trust the government in Washington to do the right thing just about always or most of the time. Some of these efforts look too tech- and operations-laden to solve the biggest challenges.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

The existence of this parallel economy is a substantial drag on the Indian economy: According to recently released data , only about 1% of Indians paid taxes on their earnings in 2013. Data Quality and Context Still Matter — a Lot. According to a Bloomberg report , banks were estimated to have received 14.97

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

Ford invested heavily in digital initiatives only to see its stock price lag due to cost and quality issues elsewhere in the company. This kind of unfortunate decision has happened over and over again, in wave after wave of transformative business technology. It is multi-faceted and diffuse, and doesn’t just involve technology.

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