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Beware the Analytics Bottleneck

Harvard Business Review

With the pace of digital “always on” streaming devices and technology innovation accelerating, one might think technology would continue to pose a challenge for businesses. For example, one retail bank applied machine learning to its customer analytics and achieved a 300% uplift on sales campaigns compared to a control group.

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Beware the Analytics Bottleneck

Harvard Business Review

With the pace of digital “always on” streaming devices and technology innovation accelerating, one might think technology would continue to pose a challenge for businesses. Within the next three years there will be over 20 billion connected devices (e.g. oil pipelines, smart cities, connected homes and businesses, etc.)

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Even for Companies, the U.S. Is Split Between Haves and Have-Nots

Harvard Business Review

Deloitte attributes this fall in part to rising competitive intensity, as a result of new technologies and lower entry barriers. So although you might expect that in a hypercompetitive environment, ambitious companies would constantly wrest market share from the leading firms, the reality is quite the opposite. economic performance.

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The Authenticity Trap for Workers Who Are Not Straight, White Men

Harvard Business Review

And, according to CTI’s recent research into women in science, engineering, and technology , women in these male-dominated industries feel they have to change the way they communicate, dress, and behave in meetings to survive in a testosterone-suffused environment.

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We All Work at Enron Now

Harvard Business Review

Investors would fail at seeding tomorrow's disruptive companies and disruptive technologies. Banks would fail at lending and borrowing. It's not just that in a hypercompetitive world, yesterday's competitive edges are as dull as a plastic spork. UK Uncut is self-organizing demonstrations against mobile operators and banks.