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Why the Best Strategies Blend the Digital and Physical

Skip Prichard

We are bombarded with digital disruption strategy and yet we hear little about the traditional skills like customer service, quality control, and logistics. What are some ways to cultivate and develop this skill? The world is constantly changing, and leaders need to keep their skills and their mindsets fresh and current.

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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. Related articles.

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Doing Business in a Big Data World

Strategy Driven

But this new world of Big Data is proving to be much more demanding and complex than expected, requiring companies not only to adopt different technologies, but also to make significant changes to their business strategy, internal skillsets, and organizational structures.

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Which Data Skills Do You Actually Need? This 2×2 Matrix Will Tell You.

Harvard Business Review

Data skills — the skills to turn data into insight and action — are the driver of modern economies. But which skills should you focus on? Can most of us expect to keep pace with this trend ourselves, or would we be better off retreating to shrinking areas of the economy, leaving data skills to the specialists?

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Data Is Useless Without the Skills to Analyze It

Harvard Business Review

Do your employees have the skills to benefit from big data? As Tom Davenport and DJ Patil note in their October Harvard Business Review article on the rise of the data scientist, the advent of the big data era means that analyzing large, messy, unstructured data is going to increasingly form part of everyone's work.

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11 Ideas for Economic Recovery

Strategy Driven

SAS – Providing organizations with THE POWER TO KNOW ® SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Joel Barker says you can innovate faster, cheaper and with less risk by developing innovations at the verge. Innovate quickly.

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Lost in Translation

Strategy Driven

SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. What is needed now is a “translation layer” to ground businesses in fact-based decision making. SAS – Providing organizations with THE POWER TO KNOW ®. sascom Magazine.