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. So that year, AP began working with an AI firm to train software to automatically write short earnings news stories.

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Artificial Inteligence Company Technical Review Survey 19

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

By analyzing its large database of information on how its seeds performed in various types of soil and weather conditions, it built software called NextField DataRX that can give personalized advice to a farmer looking to increase crop yields. In 2015, the digital universe contained 4.4 “Big data” indeed!

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Data Software Review Internet of things Big Data 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2015

Following are steps that we have seen work in a number of companies to simplify their analytics strategy and generate insight that leads to real outcomes: Accelerate the data: Fast data = fast insight = fast outcomes. • Data discovery. • Analytics applications.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2017

Another report found that in 2015 companies with more than 20,000 employees offered an average of $878 to encourage workers to participate, while companies with 5,000 to 20,000 workers offered $661 (up from $493 in 2014). This puts employees at risk of having their data used unlawfully and could create legal liabilities for employers.

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Data Software Review Exercises Big Data 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

But Vanguard’s robo-advisor platform hit the ground running in its May 2015 debut and by the end of the year had $31.1 GE Digital has built software capabilities, very different from the people GE has in its core businesses. GE locomotives have hundreds of sensors that collect tremendous amounts of data in every trip.

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Company Innovation Artificial Inteligence Big Data 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

marketers spent nearly $60 billion in 2015 on digital ads, but the industry doesn’t do a great job connecting people with products they want. The key to relevant messaging lies with data, but the challenge is no longer collecting it. Try account-based marketing software. Let’s face it — U.S.

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Marketing Software Conference Data 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Citation metrics are widely used in faculty evaluations and routinely come up in tenure reviews. What will the advent of big data mean for management research, given the incentives in our publication process I’ve described above? The data provide a fascinating look into a corrupt organization in action.

Management 14

Management Big Data Data Software Review 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2016

Twitter has experimented with Snapchat-style doodles and photo editing and in 2015 expanded the character limit via private direct messaging. Facebook Messenger will now support scannable codes, user names and links. Instagram started private DM in 2014 that focuses on the sharing of content with up to 15 people in a threaded approach.

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Marketing Big Data Data Groups 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2016

In fact, IoT is at the peak of Gartner’s 2015 hype cycle, which suggests the next phase will be disillusionment, and it will be years before we see real productivity gains. Of course, software developers have long since figured out how to export data from one application to another.

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Data System Design Software Engineering 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

The other tempts us to apply the new abundance of data and expertise in creating software routines to automate the old logic of organizations, effectively hard-wiring the most dysfunctional rules managers relied on in the past. The theme: Claiming Our Humanity — Managing in the Digital Age.

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