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4 Steps for Thinking Critically About Data Measurements

Harvard Business Review

I have a clock in my office that synchronizes itself at 1:00 am every day using a signal sent out by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Fort Collins, Colorado, which has an advertised precision in the fraction-of-a-second range. It should be trustworthy, right? Not so — it can be wildly inaccurate.

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How to Discover Your Company’s DNA

Harvard Business Review

” And its current focus is on Cognitive Business, led by the machine learning technology called Watson. Jim Collins has written of Hewlett and Packard that “their greatest product was the Hewlett-Packard Company and their greatest idea was The HP Way.”

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