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Create a Strategy That Anticipates and Learns

Harvard Business Review

In health care, these tools are changing the way doctors identify people at risk of developing certain diseases; in fashion, they crunch purchasing data to anticipate trends; sales and marketing experts use them to tailor ad campaigns. The definition of a market, customer, partner, or even competitor is now a moving target.

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Create a Strategy That Anticipates and Learns

Harvard Business Review

In health care, these tools are changing the way doctors identify people at risk of developing certain diseases; in fashion, they crunch purchasing data to anticipate trends; sales and marketing experts use them to tailor ad campaigns. The definition of a market, customer, partner, or even competitor is now a moving target.

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How Collaboration Tools Can Improve Knowledge Work

Harvard Business Review

As we automate more and more routine work, generating ever greater volumes of digital data, managers are focusing ever more on supporting knowledge workers — which these days is just about everybody. Nationwide has been successful because it has managed its adoption of collaboration tools as part of a broader cultural change program.

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It’s the Company’s Job to Help Employees Learn

Harvard Business Review

When Frederick Taylor published his pioneering principles of scientific management in 1912, the repetitive and mundane nature of most jobs required employees to think as little as possible. So how can managers do a better job of fostering learnability in the workplace? We suggest starting with three things: Select for it.

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Five Good Reasons to Champion Auto-Analytics in Your Organization

Harvard Business Review

Nike believes so strongly in the growth and profitability of the "auto-analytic" market that it it's about to launch a " FuelBand " that measures oxygen consumption, motion, steps taken per day, and more. Management science has its roots in experimentation and productivity improvement. trillion healthcare market or the $10.5