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Doing Business in a Big Data World

Strategy Driven

But this new world of Big Data is proving to be much more demanding and complex than expected, requiring companies not only to adopt different technologies, but also to make significant changes to their business strategy, internal skillsets, and organizational structures. It is a disruptive paradigm shift that most companies have yet to make.

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The Big Picture of Business – Collaborations, Partnering and Joint-Venturing… Priority for Business.

Strategy Driven

Organ donor banks and associations, in consortium with hospitals. Those who don't help to develop the business on the front end are just vendors and subcontractors. Hardware, software and component producers revolutionizing the next generation of technology. Books typically valued from $14.95 - $29.95

Cooper 50
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The Big Picture of Business – Achieving the Best by Preparing for the Worst: Lessons Learned from High-Profile Crises, part 2 of 4

Strategy Driven

Business development. economy spent one trillion dollars fixing and treating the so-called Y2K Bug, which we now know was a manufactured “crisis” by technology consulting companies. As was discussed in Chapter 8, technology constitutes one tenth of 1% of any organization’s overall Big Picture. The Big Picture.

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When a Simple Rule of Thumb Beats a Fancy Algorithm

Harvard Business Review

Starting in the late 1980s , academic researchers began to develop sophisticated predictive techniques to answer that question. Gerd Gigerenzer , director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, has been making the case for decades that heuristics often outperform statistical models.

Simon 10
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A Refresher on Debt-to-Equity Ratio

Harvard Business Review

You take your company’s total liabilities (what it owes others) and divide it by equity (this is the company’s book value or its assets minus its liabilities). Technology-based businesses and those that do a lot of R&D tend to have a ratio of 2 or below. Here’s how the formula looks: Consider an example.