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3 Questions About AI That Nontechnical Employees Should Be Able to Answer

Harvard Business Review

Taylor Callery/Getty Images. For example, I manage the finances for a team that travels very often, and I’ve been grateful for the intelligent guesswork that my expenses software extracts from receipts using machine learning: the merchant’s name, the dollar amount spent, taxes, and likely expense categorization.

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Five Good Reasons to Champion Auto-Analytics in Your Organization

Harvard Business Review

The recent boom in auto-analytics, or "self-tracking," or "self quantification" has been playing out mostly as a consumer trend — as something we do during our leisure time to become more deliberate about personal fitness, finances, or diet. Frederick Taylor's early pig-iron experiments measured and improved factory worker performance.

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Making Room for Reflection Is a Strategic Imperative

Harvard Business Review

He also founded Bubblegeneration, an agenda-setting advisory boutique that shaped strategies across media and consumer industries. Taylor s textbook about "productivity" squarely at my nose if youd like, but Id suggest: the sharpest implement you might not yet have in your toolkit is a set of reflection items. So throw Frederick W.