Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

In pre-Big Data days, for example, a hotel chain used some pretty sophisticated mathematics, data mining, and time series analysis to coordinate its yield management pricing and promotion efforts. Nate Silver on Finding a Mentor, Teaching Yourself Statistics, and Not Settling in Your Career. A Predictive Analytics Primer.

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Hotels Yield Management Discount Price 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Imagine one of your managers walks into their subordinate’s office and says, “Our data analysis predicts that you will soon get restless and think of leaving us, so we want to make you an offer that our data shows has retained others like you.” Nate Silver on Finding a Mentor, Teaching Yourself Statistics, and Not Settling in Your Career.

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Human Resources Information Technology Report Human Capital 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2013

Withholding information breeds mistrust and pouncing leads many to make more conservative and easily-defended, but sub-optimal, decisions. You have analysis-paralysis. Analysis-paralysis plagues people and companies that don''t deal well with uncertainty. Information & technology Leadership'

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2014

Technical and Data Specialists: These positions range from data quality managers who ensure the collected data are clean and accurate to business solution architects who assemble the data and organize it so it is ready for analysis. Information & technology'

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

I think our principal observation was that what was happening was that disruptive innovations driven by largely information technology but lots of other technologies on the fringe here that are getting ready to exhibit the same kind of characteristics were entering the market in kind of this better and cheaper way.

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Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

The biggest obstacle to using advanced data analysis isn’t skill base or technology; it’s plain old access to the data. Vendors have also worked hard to create entire job functions and career paths centered around their software. Using data costs money. Of course, if it was easy, it wouldn’t be important.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2015

He told me: “I’ve spent my whole career in travel and IT. Information & technology' One of the startups that is leveraging Watson is WayBlazer , a new venture in travel planning that is led by Terry Jones , a founder of Travelocity and Kayak.

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Venture Capitalist EVA Travel Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Or maybe we're more miserable in a particular career than we're willing to admit. A recent meta-analysis of 12 years of "crowdsourced" health studies discovered two types social platforms for sharing the results of self-measurement that were effective: User-run communities. We can take some guidance from the health-care field.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2013

From an organizational perspective, when anxious evaluators experience too much stress it typically results in analysis-paralysis. They are too overwhelmed with information and contradictory evidence to make a decision. And of course, they want their employees to respect them as well.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Under such conditions, decision-making is complicated even when it only requires analysis of facts. If we hope for better management of large-scale endeavors, our models will have to look beyond what it takes to inform individual, or even organizational, moves.

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Guidelines Education Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

The quantitative analysis isn’t magic—but it is normally done with a lot of past data, a little statistical wizardry, and some important assumptions. The Statistics: Regression analysis in its various forms is the primary tool that organizations use for predictive analytics. What assumptions are behind your analysis?

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Sample Analysis Information Technology Knowledge Management 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2014

In this way, the specialist has uninterrupted time for deep study and analysis, without the distractions of the office (and saving time and money on a commute), while also being present enough of the workweek for collaboration, conversations and creativity. Coordination Technology. Job Redesign.

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Flextime Information Technology Mentor Project 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

To be clear, I publish these plots because they are so utterly typical of the successful analyses I’ve participated in throughout my career. In every useful analysis, the first few plots inevitably lead to others. Information & technology Personal effectiveness' And after three months, I drew some plots. Now let’s dig in.

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