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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).

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The Unnoticed Analyst: Can analytics succeed while going unnoticed.

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. To learn more about SAS, its products and services, visit www.sas.com. Click here to cancel reply.

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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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Create a Strategy That Anticipates and Learns

Harvard Business Review

And so the power of incumbency, firm competencies, and market share is giving way to the ability to engage across companies and industries, innovate, individualize, and deliver. These analyses can identify opportunities for maverick business partnerships, and balance the biases of individual decision makers quickly and effectively.

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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. Integrate Data Into Products, or Get Left Behind. Are you ready to join them?

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Meet Your Company's New Chief Customer Officer

Harvard Business Review

I'm not suggesting that these folks need to run SPSS, or sit in front of a business intelligence tool all day. But they do understand the importance of data in addressing business questions. Consider trailing field sales agents, or following a product development cycle from inception to market. They are the future CCOs.

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