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IT Organizations Built to Last

Strategy Driven

Recent data has shown the top 1,500 companies worldwide increased their R&D by 12 percent in 2011, as they have identified the need to maintain their edge in their respective industries. By doing this, it increases their overall satisfaction—and in the process, business profitability.

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The Unnoticed Analyst: Can analytics succeed while going unnoticed.

Strategy Driven

Posted by Thornton May on November 24, 2010 · Leave a Comment The classic Harvard Business School case “Otisline (A)” 1 begins with the quote, “… our objective is to go unnoticed.” In the elevator business, you can be hugely successful and highly profitable by going unnoticed.

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How to Get More Value Out of Your Data Analysts

Harvard Business Review

If you want to put analytics to work and build a more analytical organization, you need two cadres of employees: Analytics professionals to mine and prepare data, perform statistical operations, build models, and program the surrounding business applications. million business people with the know-how to put big data analytics to use.

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The Harvard Contest That’s Trying to Improve Health Care Delivery

Harvard Business Review

The four finalists represent a mix of for-profit and not-for-profit organizations, provider- and patient-facing innovations, and clinical and operational solutions. Medalogix offers solutions that use a combination of predictive analytics, workflow analysis, and business-intelligence engines to improve quality and reduce costs.

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How Investors React When Companies Announce They’re Moving to a SaaS Business Model

Harvard Business Review

On the first point, of course, running two business models in parallel implies duplication of resources and can lead to the growth of the SaaS model being hindered. Splunk, a leader in business intelligence founded in 2003, is still holding onto the perpetual licensing model, even for new product lines it has launched.

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Five Steps to Resource Optimization: Any process can be improved.

Strategy Driven

SAS – Providing organizations with THE POWER TO KNOW ® SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Ed holds a Master of Science degree in Operations Research and a Bachelors degree in Mathematics.

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How IT Professionals Can Embrace the Serendipity Economy

Harvard Business Review

This perspective created the industrial economy lens through which most managers perceive their operations. It languished for months until 7/11/2011, during the company''s birthday celebration, when franchise managers started sharing merchandizing practices. The industrial age economy does not exist in a vacuum.

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