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Bookseller Leadership Mistakes

Coaching Tip

The new retail-oriented CEO decided to close down their website, fire their internal website experts and contract out information technology by having their books sold through Amazon.com. Unfortunately, the Borders CEO didn''t recognize that the Internet was changing everything.including the book retail business.

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Doing Business in a Big Data World

Strategy Driven

Big Data involves not just the structured data (customer name and details, products purchased, how much was spent and when, etc.) Dale Neef is a technology advisor, and author of Digital Exhaust: What Everyone Should Know About Big Data, Digitization and Digitally Driven Innovation (FT Press). FREE StrategyDriven Trial Membership.

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How to Compete When IT Is Abundant

Harvard Business Review

Carr predicted that an organization''s ability to compete through investing in information technology was about to change dramatically. The IT boom of the 1980s and early ''90s had brought information technology to the corporate masses, unleashing the first full-scale technology revolution in the enterprise.

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Yes, Managing IT Is Your Job

Harvard Business Review

Information Technology Changes the Way You Compete" was a trailblazing HBR article by Warren McFarlan back in the early 1980s. It told how American Airlines and others had introduced systems to help their customers choose their products and services. These "channel" systems helped steer business to American Airlines.

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How to Get More Value Out of Your Data Analysts

Harvard Business Review

Organizations succeed with analytics only when good data and insightful models are put to regular and productive use by business people in their decisions and their work. We don’t declare victory when a great model or application is developed – only when it’s being used to improve business performance and create new value.

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Data is Worthless if You Don't Communicate It

Harvard Business Review

Too many managers are, with the help of their analyst colleagues, simply compiling vast databases of information that never see the light of day, or that only get disseminated in auto-generated business intelligence reports. Communication Information & technology Managing people'

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Create a Strategy That Anticipates and Learns

Harvard Business Review

The buzz around using predictive tools to analyze big data in discrete areas of a business is loud and deserved. These analyses can identify opportunities for maverick business partnerships, and balance the biases of individual decision makers quickly and effectively. Information & technology Leadership Strategy'