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StrategyDriven Enterprises Partners with Xen Wireless to Form StrategyDriven Analytics, a Utility Industry Asset Management Blind Benchmarking Service

Strategy Driven

Our system’s comparison capabilities will allow leaders to assess asset performance against similar utilities, peers within a geographic or interconnection grid region, and across the industry as a whole.”. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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Why You Should Crowd-Source Your Toughest Investment Decisions

Harvard Business Review

Yet the decision to green-light a project is usually based solely on “expert opinions” — in other words, executives’ intuition supplemented by standard regression analysis. Sometimes it’s useful to ask non-experts what they think, as we did with the movie comparisons, and sometimes it’s best to aggregate experts’ opinions.

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China Wants the U.S. to Avoid the Fiscal Cliff, Too

Harvard Business Review

According to the most recent Congressional Budget Office projections , the current proposed fiscal measures, if implemented, would automatically slash the federal budget deficit by $503 billion between FY 2012 and FY 2013. Above all, the Chinese don't want to see the U.S. China is one of the world's most shrewd investors.

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Google’s Strategy vs. Glass’s Potential

Harvard Business Review

In 2013, BusinessWeek quoted Google X director Astro Teller as saying, “If there’s an enormous problem with the world, and we can convince ourselves that over some long but not unreasonable period of time we can make that problem go away, then we don’t need a business plan.” The comparison to the PC is telling.

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Health Insurance Exchanges Fulfill Both Liberal and Conservative Goals

Harvard Business Review

By providing software and counseling, the exchanges will help consumers make informed comparisons among these offerings. In addition, the Affordable Care Act has set in motion a large number of pilot programs, experiments, and demonstration projects involving new methods of paying for care and organizing providers.

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Google Flu Trends’ Failure Shows Good Data > Big Data

Harvard Business Review

In their best-selling 2013 book Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think , authors Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier selected Google Flu Trends (GFT) as the lede of chapter one. Lacking C ontrols: controls are typically unavailable, making valid comparisons and analysis more difficult.

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How Microsoft Avoided the Peter Principle with Nadella

Harvard Business Review

An apples-to-apples comparison of the finalists can be vital as well. During the final year, they added three paths to gather a last round of data: 1) The CEO and directors assigned a year-long CEO-level project to each of the three finalists.

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