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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. Though he was writing about Chief Marketing Officers, his advice is equally valuable here.

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How a German Manufacturing Company Set Up Its Analytics Lab

Harvard Business Review

As the goal of the data lab is to create value by analyzing data, we initially focused on the departments that generate the most data. 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. The team had to be motivated.

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