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The Value of Value Chain Analysis in Transforming Your Business

N2Growth Blog

For example, Budgeting and establishing operating procedures could be core activities here; Staff – which contains a collection of core work activities that support staffing activities within a business area. Once fully documented, the value chain represents the transformation team’s recommended work environment.

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Auditing Algorithms for Bias

Harvard Business Review

However objective we may intend our technology to be, it is ultimately influenced by the people who build it and the data that feeds it. ” For example, if a person was deemed a low credit risk, granted a loan, and then defaulted on that loan that would be a false positive. The answer so far has been disappointing.

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How P&G and American Express Are Approaching AI

Harvard Business Review

There is a tendency with any new technology to believe that it requires new management approaches, new organizational structures, and entirely new personnel. That impression is widespread with cognitive technologies — which comprises a range of approaches in artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and deep learning.

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Just Using Big Data Isn’t Enough Anymore

Harvard Business Review

The survey gathers perspectives from a small but influential group of executives — chief information officers, chief data officers, and senior business and technology leaders of Fortune 1000 firms. How technology is changing the way we work. Insight Center. Corporate Culture for a Digital World. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Predictive Medicine Depends on Analytics

Harvard Business Review

It’s only recently, though, that advances in information technology have made it possible for predictive tools to access and manipulate big data, and to do so continuously — accelerating the generation of insights, and opening up opportunities to anticipate issues with unprecedented precision. Health Information & technology'