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Complimentary Resource – Change Is Constant: PMBOK Guide 5th Edition

Strategy Driven

by Global Knowledge. As Global Knowledge wraps up the current four-year review cycle and anticipate the new, refreshed outcome, they have an opportunity to identify what has changed and how it may affect the professional practice of project management throughout the world. Change Is Constant : PMBOK Guide 5th Edition.

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You Can Make Your Sales Data a Lot Better with a Little Discipline

Harvard Business Review

Business intelligence is projected to grow to a nearly $26.9 The best way to keep data clean is to use a globally known, unique identifier, or a “data backbone.” The following strategies can help you improve your business intelligence through better data management: Clean house on marketing and sales contacts.

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How an Airplane Laptop Ban Would Expose Company Data to Espionage

Harvard Business Review

Millions of global travelers are anxiously awaiting the answer to this question. government received credible intelligence that ISIS had developed the capability to conceal explosive devices within laptops, tablets, and other large electronic devices, these devices have been banned, as of late March, from the airline cabins of U.S.

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The Four Personas of the Next-Generation CIO

Harvard Business Review

However, a global recession and the inability of CIOs to deliver on business value have tarnished their status. Today's CIOs are under pressure to deliver on requests for innovation, cost reduction, connectivity, and a growing demand for business intelligence.

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Data Is Useless Without the Skills to Analyze It

Harvard Business Review

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. Do your employees have the skills to benefit from big data?

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Meet Your Company's New Chief Customer Officer

Harvard Business Review

Customer intelligence is at an organizational inflection point. This practice, which is largely the evolution of database marketing, has become a critical driver of business strategy for global organizations in nearly every industry and vertical, because it supports decisions with data.

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A Survey of 1,700 Companies Reveals Common B2B Pricing Mistakes

Harvard Business Review

Like this manufacturer, many business-to-business (B2B) companies have a major opportunity to improve their standing on price. They bring data and business intelligence to bear on three variables for setting target prices: the attributes and benefits that each customer truly values, and how much value is created for them.

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