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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. Chief Operating and Finance Officers side-step this issue given the broader power-base of their positions.).

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How a German Manufacturing Company Set Up Its Analytics Lab

Harvard Business Review

Finance, Logistics, Marketing, Sales, as well as Production and Quality all produced large amounts of data that could be interesting for data science pilot projects. We needed to shield the team from being flooded by business intelligence reporting projects. Unfortunately, this didn’t narrow it down a whole lot.

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