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Are CEOs Really Necessary Anymore?

Strategy Driven

With increasingly vast bodies of knowledge about experiences, one can see how business Intelligence, with enough computing power, became Artificial Intelligence. If we have enough past information of competitive successes and failures, BDAI is capable of helping leaders develop options. No driver necessary.

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Tips for Conducting Business Across Continents

Strategy Driven

The best advice I can give you is to keep your global business connected. With the development of modern business management solutions, it is easier than ever to stay connected with your teams all over the world. Industry Principle (Product & Business Development).

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Yes, Managing IT Is Your Job

Harvard Business Review

In order to see the future more clearly, it''s almost always helpful to look back — and this certainly goes for IT and its ever-increasing impact on operations, and ultimately on competitive advantage. ERP systems, RFID , knowledge management, business intelligence) have washed over organizations.

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Shadow IT Is Out of the Closet

Harvard Business Review

An impatient marketing or finance manager would, on the sly, secure some extra budget money and hire a contractor to build a little database that tracked mailing addresses or top-line financials. Slowly but surely, as the little database grew bigger and bigger, the manager would wedge the cost into her operating budget.

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5 of the Most Useful AI/Machine Learning Tools for Your Business

Strategy Driven

In fact, real AI is mostly applied to business development and science projects where data-driven derivatives and goals are the primary focus of a given strategy. Well, machine learning is the concept of an AI developing its own repeatable output based on the data analysis from repeated input. Dick would have us believe.

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Just Adding a Chief Data Officer Isn’t Enough

Harvard Business Review

The proliferation of C-suite roles is an indication of the increasing strategic and operational complexity organizations face. 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.

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How to Compete When IT Is Abundant

Harvard Business Review

With the swipe of a credit card, the customer support team can move to Zendesk or Desk.com; the HR team lives on Workday; the business intelligence group moves to GoodData or Domo; the finance team logs into Netsuite; the marketing department orbits around Marketo and Salesforce''s marketing cloud.