Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

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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CEO Balanced Scorecard Supply Chain Sharpe 66

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

It means distilling raw information into a “story” about our customers, our business growth levers, and the business challenges we face – all with a view of moving the business forward. SAS – Providing organizations with THE POWER TO KNOW ®. To learn more about SAS, its products and services, visit www.sas.com.

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Magazine Banking Marketing Analysis 50

Strategy Driven

MAY 26, 2021

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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Tools Analysis Software Document 86

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

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. Lines of business are now getting their own official technology budgets for non-standard software products.

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Supply Chain CIO Budgeting Project 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2013

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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Incentives Chief Information Officer Business Intelligence Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Front-line sales professionals and managers rarely find the majority of these capabilities useful in winning more business for the company. CRMs today also serve a lot of masters, from executives in the C-suite, technology, marketing, finance, and, oh yeah, sales. This helps filter out business you shouldn’t pursue.

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CRM Project Succession CIO 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

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. This power turned out to be a game changer.

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Company Automotive Project Chief Information Officer 10