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Make Your Organization Anti-Fragile

Harvard Business Review

having sacrificed customer intimacy for increased operational excellence gains through widespread cost cutting, are well documented. Organizations worry about fine-tuning their operations to handle the typical situations. Operations Risk management Strategy' and in its home market in the U.K. Not anymore.".

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Invest in Proprietary Data for Competitive Advantage

Harvard Business Review

Only you have the specific transaction, "John Smith bought peas, bread, and grape nehi at 9:27 AM on March 11, 2013," and the tens of thousands like it each day! Even without a proprietary data structure, companies should still seek to create advantage through their content.