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You Can Make Your Sales Data a Lot Better with a Little Discipline

Harvard Business Review

Business intelligence is projected to grow to a nearly $26.9 The best way to keep data clean is to use a globally known, unique identifier, or a “data backbone.” can make data seem overwhelming without a good process for managing it. Vincent Tsui for HBR. IBM determined that inaccurate data took a $3.1

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How to Get More Value Out of Your Data Analysts

Harvard Business Review

You’re in luck if your CEO, executive team, and general managers across the business are all accomplished analytical amateurs. A May 2011 McKinsey Global Institute study on big data analytics predicted a coming shortfall of around 150,000 people with deep analytical skills – and a shortfall of 1.5

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