Kevin Eikenberry

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Collect more data and gain more kinds of input. Strange as it may be, the events at Gobbler’s Knob in Punxsutawney, PA each Groundhog Day is a big deal. It also implies thinking and reflecting on what you have observed. Use your ears and intuition as well as your eyes and the facts. Celebrate traditions.

Leadership 196

Leadership Workshop Learning-by-Doing Blog 196

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

The big take away here is that intuitive decisioning can be refined and improved. Data : Raw data is comprised of disparate facts, statistics, or random inputs that in-and-of-themselves hold little value. Making conclusions based on data in its raw form will lead to flawed decisions based on incomplete data sets.

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Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

In this special guest piece, Jim and Barry discuss the 3rd leadership principle from the book, “Earn Credibility”, by sharing findings from several of their studies as to why credibility is so critical to our ability to effectively lead our employees and organization. I just used to say, ‘A big company.’” Kouzes and Barry Z.

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Leadership Commitment Loyalty Follow-up 279

QAspire

JUNE 26, 2014

This was the topic of June Edition of #IndiaHRChat in presence of special guest Faisal Hoque – an entrepreneur, author of Everything Connects – How to Transform and Lead in the Age of Creativity, Innovation and Sustainability (McGraw Hill, Spring 2014) and contributor to FastCompany and Huffington Post. Is VUCA more hype than reality?

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Agility Leadership Career Short-term 177

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Big data is great. But we should consider that we've actually had more data than we can reasonably use for a while now. In contrast to this abundant data, insights are relatively rare. Insights here are defined as actionable, data-driven findings that create business value. And they're hard to build.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2016

She is a curated, big data analytics aide-de-camp — not quite at the level of artificial intelligence, but close — and she speaks in a British accent. Luxury customers, whether they’re buying automobiles, or jewelry, or hotel suites, want to feel special. Finding Surprises in Big Data.

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Hotels Film Fashion Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2018

At Dorchester Collection of ultra-luxury hotels, we use big data and analytics to help us improve our guest offerings and marketing. Our tool, Metis, analyzes data from online reviews and social media to uncover problems and opportunities. Insight Center. Data-Driven Marketing. Ron Berg/Getty Images.

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Hotels Loyalty Fashion Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2014

His artillery: Advanced Big Data analytics. MasterCard had always been a data-driven organization. But the real power and full potential of data was not being fully realized by marketing. Consider Intel, which began eyeing Big Data’s potential to quantify marketing’s contribution to revenue in about 2010.

Finance 13

Finance Marketing P&L ROI 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2016

There is a lot of hype surrounding data and analytics. Firms are constantly exhorted to set strategies in place to collect and analyze big data, and warned about the potential negative consequences of not doing so. The first challenge limiting the value of big data to firms is compatibility and integration.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

Specifically, they can profit from DTC firms’ expertise in persuading their customers to provide and share their data. This is something many cancer patients don’t do because they are unaware of the data’s importance or their power to instruct institutions to share it. The reasons for this, of course, are many.

Company 8

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

Sometimes it’s better to think a bit smaller so you can set yourself up for big results. A puzzling customer insight bothered the company’s executives. The company’s existing sales methods couldn’t handle these special requests. Insight Center. Take Japanese insurer Tokio Marine Holdings.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Does better data mean better employee performance and organizational outcomes? That’s the implication of the current emphasis on big data and the use of metrics in HR, but the answer isn’t an easy “yes.”. The moral: Data works. Long live data! The moral: Data doesn’t work. Down with data!

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2012

The glut of information that bombards us daily too frequently obscures true insight. Intelligence should drive better innovation, but unless it is strategically collected and used, it functions like a summer beach novel — an engaging distraction. It's a paradox of the information age.

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Innovation Chemicals Price Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2014

The arrival of the Internet of Things or the Industrial Internet is generating previously unimaginable quantities of data to measure, analyze and act on. These new data sources promise to transform our lives as much in the 21st century as the early stages of the Information Revolution reshaped the latter part of the 20th century.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Insight Center. Russian-speaking cybercriminals are often involved in big picture cybercrime — things like manipulating currency, stealing money over several years, and transnational schemes. They might even consider hiring and training social scientists to help them develop behavioral insights. Sponsored by KPMG.

Company 8

Company Banking Information Advice 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2018

Insight Center. Virtual personal assistants may be able to do this even better than online agencies, given the amount of personal data about customers that the big tech companies will have at their disposal. Still, travel companies should be cautious and carefully weigh the benefits of sharing data. Adopting AI.

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Travel Industry Hotels Airlines 9

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 28, 2022

While specialized intelligent SCM systems play an important part in optimizing business processes, the right supply chain strategy by supply chain experts helps businesses choose the best supplier, minimize sourcing delays, and reduce the overall operational cost of production. Decreased Disruptions.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

You might also be sold on how insights from behavioral science can make a big impact in your organization. The market for behavioral science is specialized and not yet mature, so your go-to consultancy may not have the expertise to advise you. Have you got the funds to bring in experts?

Company 8

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2013

Economists point to problems of collective action and misaligned liability rules that actually reduce the incentives for firms to invest sufficiently and efficiently in protecting the network. A reasonable career move would be to specialize in "lower level" attacks like, well, corporate espionage and intellectual property theft.

Supply Chain 8

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2016

More complex types of cognitive technology — neural or deep learning networks, natural language processing, and algorithms — can seem like black boxes even to the data scientists who create them. Insight Center. Go big with Watson. The Automation Age. Sponsored by KPMG. Start with chatbots.

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Organization Software CRM Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Whereas new developments and refinements of surgical techniques historically arose among tight-knit communities of surgeons concentrated in large university settings, where many people performed similar cases, modern surgery encompasses a broader array of increasingly specialized procedures that are occurring in a range of settings worldwide.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2015

Developing ways to safely collect blood samples at people’s homes could significantly streamline this process. In an era of big data, information from different components of the Ebola response — tracing contacts, hospitalizing infected persons, safely burying those who pass away — remain in separate, incompatible databases.

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Transportation Innovation Sample Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

Insight Center. ” In the end, through many discussions and much gathering of data, the company came up with a hybrid method for product development that combined elements of both approaches, which they call IBM Design Thinking. And they had an annual big survey to gather customer insights. The Future of Operations.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

The pervasive adoption of mobile devices has driven an explosion of contextual user information, including geolocation data, which has become a valuable resource for marketers. However, a lack of technical skill sets among marketers has made it difficult for them to use this data (when they have access to it) effectively.

Short-term 8

Short-term Brand Long-term Media 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2016

We believe data-driven manufacturing is indeed the next wave that will drive efficient and responsive production systems. While control systems deployed across the supply chain and factory might collect lots of different measurements at many locations, sampling of data is triggered at predetermined times. Insight Center.

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Supply Chain Engineering System Efficiency 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2014

It can illuminate patterns in massive amounts of data. The least effective confuse you (the food pyramid), overwhelm you with data (nutrition labels), or are just plain boring. What’s special about the way infographics make their case? Take a look at the first infographic of the collection. It can compress time and space.

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Open-book Health Care Metrics Tools 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2013

"We have a lot of data, but we have no idea what we should do with it." Awash in data, an organization — be it a healthcare nonprofit, a government agency, or a tech company — desperately wants to capitalize on the insights that the "Big Data" hype has promised them. His co-workers nodded eagerly.

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Metrics Information Analysis Definition 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

The role of the data journalist has increased dramatically over the last decade.The past few months have seen the launch of several high-profile “data journalism” or “explanatory journalism” websites in the U.S. But I think one of most important issues that Ball touches on is how journalists source their data.

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Offshoring Media Analysis Project 10

LDRLB

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

It’s a really big trend right now. Did he do some special things outside of the school for his church or synagogue or whatever? Steve Jobs, who was not college educated even, and I don’t know whether he read Drucker or did not read Drucker but I do know that Jobs said that if you focus on profit that this is a big mistake.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Growing opportunities to collect and leverage digital information have led many managers to change how they make decisions – relying less on intuition and more on data. As Jim Barksdale, the former CEO of Netscape quipped, “If we have data, let’s look at data. This should come as no surprise.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Technology Objective Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2014

You bought into Big Data and it’s paying off Big Time. Big Data creates Big Dilemmas. Big Data — and its associated analytics — dramatically increase both the dimensionality and degrees of freedom for detailed discrimination. Congratulations. Knowledge is power. What might that mean?).

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Merchandising Media Price Cost 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2013

I am uncomfortable with the growing emphasis on big data and its stylist, visualization. Don't get me wrong — I love infographic representations of large data sets. On the other hand, I see beautiful exercises in special effects that show off statistical and technical skills, but do not clearly serve an informing purpose.

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Information Construction System Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2017

No single party controls the data or the information. Insight Center. These platforms rely on a blockchain to reward drivers contributing to the platform with specially designed tokens that represent a share in the platform. How Blockchain Works Here are five basic principles underlying the technology. Distributed Database.

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Decentralization Cooper Technology Operations 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Reflection items are what Mycroft was to Sherlock: the smarter — but largely invisible — big brother. When many companies reflect, they choose to use third-, fourth-, or fifth-hand data. But nth-hand data is, by definition, an off-the shelf commodity — hence, its often empty of deeper insight.

Short-term 15

Short-term Guidelines Mass Marketing Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2013

These differences go to the foundation of the modern corporate IT department — the infrastructure — which includes the software, hardware, communications, facilities, data centers, operations, and other technical resources a corporation operates. Reinventing Corporate IT An HBR Insight Center.

CIO 9

CIO Technology Telecommunications Information Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

The criticisms are several: that design thinking is poorly defined ; that the case for its use relies more on anecdotes than data; that it is little more than basic commonsense, repackaged and then marketed for a hefty consulting fee. In selecting the Big U/Dryline, Rebuild by Design affirmed the political, economic, and physical status-quo.

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Real Estate Proposal Politics Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Data and analytics professionals seem to be at the center of the next big race for talent. In 2015, there was a surplus of people with data science skills. By 2020, IBM expects broader demand for data and analytics talent to reach 2.7 For them, a dedicated, in-house team of data specialists can be a necessity.

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