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Doing Business in a Big Data World

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A veteran of knowledge management, business intelligence, and large-scale technology implementation projects with more than fifty companies worldwide, he has been a technical consultant for the Asian Development Bank, has worked for IBM and Computer Sciences Corporation, and was a fellow at Ernst & Young’s Center for Business Innovation.

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Tips for Conducting Business Across Continents

Strategy Driven

He was a member of the EMEA Manufacturing Industries Business Group. Prior to working at SAP, Benoît worked for management consulting and technology services companies dedicated to ERP, Business Intelligence and new technologies. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. FREE StrategyDriven Trial Membership.

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How Investors React When Companies Announce They’re Moving to a SaaS Business Model

Harvard Business Review

To understand how traditional software vendors can move to the SaaS model while managing the transformation’s challenges, we studied how the stock market reacted to publicly listed firms announcing they wanted to introduce a new SaaS offering from 2001 until the end of 2015.

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Simplify Your Analytics Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Here are ways to delegate the work to your analytics technologies: • Next-Gen Business Intelligence (BI) and data visualization. At its core, next-gen business intelligence is bringing data and analytics to life to help companies improve and optimize their decision-making and organizational performance.

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How Singapore Became an Entrepreneurial Hub

Harvard Business Review

We made a couple, but they were proverbial needles in a haystack of business plans and pitches we sat through that were amateur at best, and outright naïve at worst. Fast forward to 2015, and you see an island transformed. We invested in the company in 2012 through our fund, with the government contributing 85%, and U.S.

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How to Actually Put Your Data Analysis to Good Use

Harvard Business Review

In 2015, there was a surplus of people with data science skills. Nike put together a tailored set of software tools for business intelligence, analysis and visualization—all with an aim to reduce technical barriers and bring insights to users in the business. MirageC/Getty Images. million positions in the U.S.

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How an Airplane Laptop Ban Would Expose Company Data to Espionage

Harvard Business Review

million people, earning an average salary of $152,868, traveled to Europe on business in 2015. The Global Business Travel Association found that half of these travelers “preferred to stay connected and get work done during flights.” How could spies benefit, should the electronics ban be expanded?

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