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Are CEOs Really Necessary Anymore?

Strategy Driven

With increasingly vast bodies of knowledge about experiences, one can see how business Intelligence, with enough computing power, became Artificial Intelligence. If we have enough past information of competitive successes and failures, BDAI is capable of helping leaders develop options. CEO’s Role- Wisdom and Innovation.

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Lost in Translation

Strategy Driven

SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Through innovative solutions delivered within an integrated framework, SAS helps customers at more than 45,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster.

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Shadow IT Is Out of the Closet

Harvard Business Review

An impatient marketing or finance manager would, on the sly, secure some extra budget money and hire a contractor to build a little database that tracked mailing addresses or top-line financials. Lines of business are now getting their own official technology budgets for non-standard software products.

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5 of the Most Useful AI/Machine Learning Tools for Your Business

Strategy Driven

In fact, real AI is mostly applied to business development and science projects where data-driven derivatives and goals are the primary focus of a given strategy. Well, machine learning is the concept of an AI developing its own repeatable output based on the data analysis from repeated input. Dick would have us believe.

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Yes, Managing IT Is Your Job

Harvard Business Review

Similar waves of innovative applications of technology (e.g., ERP systems, RFID , knowledge management, business intelligence) have washed over organizations. Managers can no longer take months to develop requirements, then wait for IT, then tell IT that wasn''t what they wanted.

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How a German Manufacturing Company Set Up Its Analytics Lab

Harvard Business Review

Finance, Logistics, Marketing, Sales, as well as Production and Quality all produced large amounts of data that could be interesting for data science pilot projects. We needed to shield the team from being flooded by business intelligence reporting projects. Unfortunately, this didn’t narrow it down a whole lot.

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We Interviewed Health Care Leaders About Their Industry, and They’re Worried

Harvard Business Review

The consensus is the challenges facing them will be daunting and organizations will be strained to finance and manage it. The transformation will necessitate substantial investments in finance, technology, human capital, operations, and infrastructure, and a substantial disinvestment of legacy resources in these areas. Insight Center.