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Little Data Makes Big Data More Powerful

Harvard Business Review

But thanks to the combination of mobile, social, and cloud technologies, it''s easier than ever to gain insight into our own behavior. The associated mobile app gives feedback, encouragement, and rewards as you reach your goals. Start by applying the three steps: Shift Focus: How can we help individuals achieve their goals?

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People Are the Puck

Harvard Business Review

Technologies will change, distribution channels for content will change, usage environments will change. This is often the reason why thoughtful quantitative analysis that incorporates macro-economic trends, market share, competitive strategies, retail analysis and technological assessments so often misses the mark. Think about it.

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Metrics Are Easy; Insight Is Hard

Harvard Business Review

Delivering them requires different people, technology, and skills — specifically including deep domain knowledge. But we should consider that we've actually had more data than we can reasonably use for a while now. Insights here are defined as actionable, data-driven findings that create business value. And they're hard to build.

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The September 2012 Leadership Development Carnival NFL Kick-off Edition

Great Leadership By Dan

Lynn Dessert from Elephants at Work completes a hail mary pass with Using the Benchmarks® Assessment for Leadership Development. "As As with many assessments, Benchmarks® delivers insights to many leaders about their actions and behaviors through feedback from a broad range of groups they interact with inside their organization.".

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What is HR Analytics?

HR Digest

Instead of relying on intuition or anecdotal evidence, HR professionals can use data to make informed choices that align with organizational goals. This type of analytics is commonly used for reporting, benchmarking, and monitoring HR metrics.

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Making Sense of Owned Media

Harvard Business Review

While the strategies are different, the goal is the same — to generate awareness and engagement. They can be direct, as in discussion forums, or indirect, through peer benchmarking. The building blocks are Sephora’s Loyalty program, mobile app, BeautyTalk community, and ColorIQ service.

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Calculate How Much Your Company Should Invest in Innovation

Harvard Business Review

To get everyone to agree on a realistic goal, we suggest picking a year far enough in the future that people feel safe discussing what needs to happen by that time but not so far away that uncertainty about technological or market developments would render a discussion meaningless. How many of them delivered as much as predicted?