Skip Prichard

AUGUST 16, 2021

Business leaders are continually told they need to embrace digital disruption wholeheartedly to thrive in the 21st Century. Legacy companies, we hear, are all doomed to fail unless they double down on the latest digital innovations, and disruptors are ordained to take over the world. Digital innovation is the answer to everything.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

You could almost think about that driver as being on the receiving end of a firehose of data, sorting out the most important patterns, and then turning all of that into a best course of action — the very definition of Intelligence. CEO’s Role- Wisdom and Innovation. The second is to lead innovation. No driver necessary.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

With the plethora of conflicting information written about process design, implementation and management, combined with the nightmares we’ve all experienced as a result of bad process, many executives fear the pain associated with flawed process less than they value the benefits created by good process.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 14, 2013

A growing number of organizations are moving toward having more pervasive Business Intelligence (BI) by turning to evidence-based decision making supported by a range of BI and analytics technology and processes that enable decision makers to have the best possible intelligence about customers, finances, operations, suppliers, and the market.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 22, 2018

In the part 1 of this topic, the likes of communication, organization and information was discussed as some of the reasons every business owner should consider using SharePoint. In this article, the focus will be on the pros of using SharePoint as a business technology solution. Is Sharepoint Adequate For Your Business?

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Strategy Driven

JULY 7, 2013

In interviews with more than 100 mobile innovators, they have found four places where mobile engagement transforms services and processes: customer engagement, process acceleration, employee productivity, and new business services. Click here for more information on Forrester Research Report : The Business Impact of Mobile Engagement.

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Coaching Tip

JULY 9, 2013

The new retail-oriented CEO decided to close down their website, fire their internal website experts and contract out information technology by having their books sold through Amazon.com. Unfortunately, the Borders CEO didn''t recognize that the Internet was changing everything.including the book retail business.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 26, 2021

Both of these are focused on business intelligence and deep learning with traditional ML at their core. Business-Boosting ROI; predictions with the app allow you to make informed decisions that can increase sales, detect fraud, or estimate paywalls and customer willingness to pay. A Binary Decision?

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

To achieve growth, economies the world over rely on small businesses to create jobs, increase competition and spur innovation. In return, these small businesses often look to governments for assistance, from cutting bureaucratic red tape to providing financial incentives such as tax breaks. by Symantec Corporation.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Innovation begins with management; by fostering a culture that prioritizes innovation, creativity is incentivized among team members. Customer centricity: It’s been proven that companies that prioritize their customers see greater business results and continually bring more innovative products to the market.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 27, 2015

Dale Neef is a technology advisor, and author of Digital Exhaust: What Everyone Should Know About Big Data, Digitization and Digitally Driven Innovation (FT Press). Name and address information required. You just finished reading Doing Business in a Big Data World ! Books typically valued from $14.95 - $29.95

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Data is omnipresent and within our grasp yet business truths are still elusive. Finding meaning in that data requires sifting through droves of extraneous information for business insight. SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

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. As analysts, we need to expand the organization’s “smartwidth” – its capability to understand and act on information.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Companies are already making use of this for innovative business intelligence purposes — for example, Derwent Capital Management uses Twitter sentiment to predict stock-market movements. Governments the world over use social media to push information out to the world. The granularity of the data is impressive.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2011

Five years ago, Chief Information Officers (CIOs) were on top of the world. However, a global recession and the inability of CIOs to deliver on business value have tarnished their status. Today's CIOs are under pressure to deliver on requests for innovation, cost reduction, connectivity, and a growing demand for business intelligence.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2013

But too many organizations are stretching their Chief Information Officers (CIO) too thin. CIOs are being tasked with managing internal business systems, cloud-based services, big data innovation, data security, and the 24x7 needs of global customers who access company data on personal devices. Exploit IT for Strategic Benefit.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

But maybe the thrill of accomplishment in these pockets is diverting senior managers’ attention from another, even more critical opportunity: Digital technologies are also rapidly changing how managers can acquire and assess the information they use to develop and execute on enterprise-wide strategy. Strategy can anticipate and learn.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

For example, though most American business travelers aren’t aware of the threats of espionage, the dangers are greater and more prevalent than ever before. One could argue that since the dawn of civilization only time itself has proven more valuable than information.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

Will they integrate with current Business Intelligence systems? Chief information officers are expected to see deeply into the future and generate IT predictions that companies can build their strategies around. Will " social analytics " tools prove to be reliable? Those are the kinds of questions that CIOs get all the time.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Those that successfully harvest vast troves of data can improve productivity; make faster and more accurate decisions; reduce costs; increase competitive advantage; discover new business models and innovations; and better engage customers, employees, and partners.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2015

In the fall of 2014, the HBS-HMS Forum on Health Care Innovation launched the inaugural Health Acceleration Challenge — a “scale up” competition that focuses on compelling solutions to problems in health care delivery that have already been implemented at a small scale and have the potential for wider dissemination.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

Information Technology Changes the Way You Compete" was a trailblazing HBR article by Warren McFarlan back in the early 1980s. These "channel" systems helped steer business to American Airlines. Similar waves of innovative applications of technology (e.g., Similar waves of innovative applications of technology (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

They're simpler to implement than their enterprise-wide counterparts and business people see them as worthwhile and cost-effective. A large insurance client of mine recently added a new data visualization tool to its business intelligence toolbox. Finally, changing central IT's role can generate widespread support.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

And yet research from TDWI states that at organizations where 50% of employees have access to business intelligence tools, only 20% of that group actually use them. To get around these issues, many organizations have relied on visualizations to display information gleaned from data. Inventory management at the grocery store.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

As Tom Davenport and DJ Patil note in their October Harvard Business Review article on the rise of the data scientist, the advent of the big data era means that analyzing large, messy, unstructured data is going to increasingly form part of everyone's work. To thrive in this world, many will require additional skills.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

the bottom layer represents the most common type of database inquiry, the standard business intelligence report, evolving toward more advanced types of analytics requiring individuals with more sophisticated skills working with successively lower levels of hypothesis: The pyramid is capped by Knowledge Discovery, the detection of patterns in data.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

But maybe the thrill of accomplishment in these pockets is diverting senior managers’ attention from another, even more critical opportunity: Digital technologies are also rapidly changing how managers can acquire and assess the information they use to develop and execute on enterprise-wide strategy. Strategy can anticipate and learn.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2012

I'm not suggesting that these folks need to run SPSS, or sit in front of a business intelligence tool all day. But they do understand the importance of data in addressing business questions. MORE ON CUSTOMER INTELLIGENCE. Turning Customer Intelligence Into Innovation. They are the future CCOs.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2013

We''ve seen significant breaches at government agencies and in private businesses, including leading financial institutions and large U.S. The first focuses on the concept of enhanced public/private information sharing and developing standards. media companies. There are two primary areas of concern.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2016

From IT’s perspective, our company’s Intelligent Technology Index , a survey of 403 senior IT professionals, found that 61% believe mining big data for business intelligence has already had a business impact, followed by the Internet of Things (48%), digital audience expansion (41%), and geotagging and geo-tracking of consumers (39%).

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2014

Its use of quantitative information can help organizations optimize their spaces in a way that positively reinforces their overarching mission, and accommodates the unique work styles of their employees. Groupon’s tiki bar “conference room” acts both as an escape from work and as a space that encourages innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Improve decision making by ensuring information can move easily across the organization. Product innovation sits at the intersection of R&D, marketing, and business intelligence. Intentional design can improve the health of the organization, position your team for success, and make life better for everyone.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2016

It’s the same with data analysts and business intelligence engineers. Decoding this data, everyone tells us, will help companies pinpoint exactly what each consumer wants and will inform a product’s creation in turn. Business leaders with heightened senses of empathy will be rewarded in this environment.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2017

The fourth is human capital management, which focuses on recruiting, developing, and enabling information workers, providing the processes and systems to empower them with the tools required to connect and remain productive. more likely to inform product design by capturing data on how their products are used. Digital leaders are 1.5x

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2015

A few innovative executives understand this and have sought scalable, automated solutions that interpret data, unlock hidden insights, and then provide answers to ongoing business problems. In the near-term, the adoption of AI within business intelligence platforms and customer-facing applications will accelerate.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Sometimes data-savvy companies get so excited by their analytical horsepower that they don't stop to think of how their business intelligence is perceived by outside parties. Instead, it simply became more subtle in its execution: customer-specific offers are now interspersed with more generic ads or a more diverse set of promotions.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

This gave ZF access to top-notch expertise in data analytics and the management of information systems. We needed to shield the team from being flooded by business intelligence reporting projects. But the momentum it created is something we do not want to miss”, said Dr. Jürgen Sturm, Chief Information Officer.

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