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Let Algorithms Decide – and Act – for Your Company

Harvard Business Review

Instead, smart organizations are driving analytics to an even deeper level within business processes— to make real-time operational decisions , on a daily basis. These operational analytics are embedded, prescriptive, automated, and run at scale to directly drive business decisions. Centuries ago everything was manufactured by hand.

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Designing the Machines That Will Design Strategy

Harvard Business Review

An integrated strategy machine is the collection of resources, both technological and human, that act in concert to develop and execute business strategies. Don’t let technological capabilities dictate the problems you solve. If all you have is a hammer, then everything will look like a nail. Design appropriate to the aim.