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Just Using Big Data Isn’t Enough Anymore

Harvard Business Review

Big Data has quickly become an established fact for Fortune 1000 firms — such is the conclusion of a Big Data executive survey that my firm has conducted for the past four years. To date, most Big Data accomplishments have involved operational cost savings or allowing the analysis of larger and more diverse sets of data.

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What Alan Greenspan Has Learned Since 2008

Harvard Business Review

At that point if you took a survey of what the outlook was, you’d get an overwhelming positive response the day before it falls on its face. But when that deflation occurs, it requires a point at which the vast majority of market participants do not expect it to happen. That tells you a great deal about forecasting.