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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. Strategy-making can now happen in real time.

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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. Strategy-making can now happen in real time.

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How IT Professionals Can Embrace the Serendipity Economy

Harvard Business Review

With Frederick''s Taylor invention of scientific management in the 1880s, and its subsequent assimilation into what we now consider modern management, organizations have used logic and rationality to the eliminate waste, to seek efficiency, and to transfer human knowledge to tools and processes.

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