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The Unnoticed Analyst: Can analytics succeed while going unnoticed.

Strategy Driven

Posted by Thornton May on November 24, 2010 · Leave a Comment The classic Harvard Business School case “Otisline (A)” 1 begins with the quote, “… our objective is to go unnoticed.” In the elevator business, you can be hugely successful and highly profitable by going unnoticed. Click here to cancel reply.

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Yes, Managing IT Is Your Job

Harvard Business Review

In order to see the future more clearly, it''s almost always helpful to look back — and this certainly goes for IT and its ever-increasing impact on operations, and ultimately on competitive advantage. Information Technology Changes the Way You Compete" was a trailblazing HBR article by Warren McFarlan back in the early 1980s.

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What the Companies on the Right Side of the Digital Business Divide Have in Common

Harvard Business Review

It’s created new business and social networks, resulted in new ecosystems, and transformed our economy. While some have invested significantly in technology, operational, and cultural changes, others are lagging behind. Other financial and operating indicators showed similar disparities. for leaders and 3.2%

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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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Meet Your Company's New Chief Customer Officer

Harvard Business Review

In his research, he reports that these individuals typically have extensive sales, marketing and operational backgrounds. 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.

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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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Create a Strategy That Anticipates and Learns

Harvard Business Review

Using machine-learning tools, for example, data that currently exists in different enterprise systems and diverse external sources (production, supply chain, market, customer trend, financial and economic data) can be ingested and mashed together to reveal meaningful patterns and highlight gaps in markets.