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Just Adding a Chief Data Officer Isn’t Enough

Harvard Business Review

Brad Peters, CEO of Birst, a business intelligence company, raised the issue of incentives and structure with me in an interview at Saleforce.com’s Dreamforce conference. Use Brown, Court, and Willmott’s six tasks of data-focused activities to start developing the issues to have the on the table.

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The CIO as Corporate Psychic

Harvard Business Review

Will they integrate with current Business Intelligence systems? Chief information officers are expected to see deeply into the future and generate IT predictions that companies can build their strategies around. Will " social analytics " tools prove to be reliable?

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How a German Manufacturing Company Set Up Its Analytics Lab

Harvard Business Review

We needed to shield the team from being flooded by business intelligence reporting projects. But the momentum it created is something we do not want to miss”, said Dr. Jürgen Sturm, Chief Information Officer. Hard data had to play a major role in the solution. The team had to be motivated.

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