Strategy Driven

JULY 7, 2013

In interviews with more than 100 mobile innovators, they have found four places where mobile engagement transforms services and processes: customer engagement, process acceleration, employee productivity, and new business services. Complimentary Resource – The Truth About Mobile Business Intelligence: Five Common Myths Debunked.

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Forrester Report Resources Business Intelligence 64

Coaching Tip

JULY 9, 2013

Tom Borders told me that they decided to hire a CEO whose experience was in retailing versus a strategic marketing expert. 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.

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Chief Executive Officer eBook Leadership Leadership Styles 97

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 27, 2015

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. About the Author.

CIO 50

CIO Technology CRM Competitive Advantage 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

In most organizations, social media established a marketing beachhead. It served its purpose by raising awareness of a new set of technologies based on new principles of peer-to-peer discussion, openness, and cross-boundary communities. But we need to break out social media and talk about more than marketing and technology.

Media 15

Media Marketing Technology Short-term 15

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2011

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. Where can you find long-term strategies for your business? Remember, recessions make us stronger.

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Real Estate Magazine Rogers Long-term 66

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

By Ayman Sayed, President and Chief Product Officer, CA Technologies. You’ve probably already heard of the rise in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) across many industries and applications. Read more from CA Technologies: The Key to Agile Success? Focus on Outcomes, not Metrics.

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Agility Technology Development Content 9

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

The crisis that started in the housing markets has unearthed a series of cascading consequences that few companies were prepared to handle. SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Innovation on a budget.

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Tools Black-Scholes Magazine Rogers 56

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Those that successfully harvest vast troves of data can improve productivity; make faster and more accurate decisions; reduce costs; increase competitive advantage; discover new business models and innovations; and better engage customers, employees, and partners. That’s still true. How to Become a Digital Enterprise.

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Technology Content Market Segmentation Business Model 8

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. They are tasked with mining through data to find answers to particular business problems. Treating analytical resources like marketing dollars will help ensure wise investment.

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Magazine Banking Marketing Analysis 50

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

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.” The case illustrates how information technology, innovatively, insightfully and courageously deployed, can change the structure of an industry.

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Magazine Chief Operating Officer Newsletter Objective 51

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

In health care, these tools are changing the way doctors identify people at risk of developing certain diseases; in fashion, they crunch purchasing data to anticipate trends; sales and marketing experts use them to tailor ad campaigns. The definition of a market, customer, partner, or even competitor is now a moving target.

Strategy 11

Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2012

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. The ability to speak "IT."

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Company Business Intelligence CRM Marketing 14

Strategy Driven

JULY 22, 2018

In this article, the focus will be on the pros of using SharePoint as a business technology solution. say that SharePoint reduces costs by consolidating intranet, extranet and internet sites in a single platform – either internally or through the use of Cloud technology. Is Sharepoint Adequate For Your Business?

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Technology CRM Document Project 51

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2017

Every serious technology company now has an Artificial Intelligence team in place. These companies are investing millions into intelligent systems for situation assessment, prediction analysis, learning-based recognition systems, conversational interfaces, and recommendation engines. Insight Center. The Age of AI.

Technology 8

Technology Hammer Analysis Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

An impatient marketing or finance manager would, on the sly, secure some extra budget money and hire a contractor to build a little database that tracked mailing addresses or top-line financials. Lines of business are now getting their own official technology budgets for non-standard software products.

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Supply Chain CIO Budgeting Project 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

In health care, these tools are changing the way doctors identify people at risk of developing certain diseases; in fashion, they crunch purchasing data to anticipate trends; sales and marketing experts use them to tailor ad campaigns. The definition of a market, customer, partner, or even competitor is now a moving target.

Strategy 8

Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

Information Technology Changes the Way You Compete" was a trailblazing HBR article by Warren McFarlan back in the early 1980s. Their strategic use of information technology (IT) presaged the dot.com boom of the 1990s when the Internet made this kind of online ordering commonplace.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Management Information Technology Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2015

In the fall of 2014, the HBS-HMS Forum on Health Care Innovation launched the inaugural Health Acceleration Challenge — a “scale up” competition that focuses on compelling solutions to problems in health care delivery that have already been implemented at a small scale and have the potential for wider dissemination.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Cost Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

GDP, according to Harvard Business School professor Josh Lerner , venture-backed companies made up more than 11% of public firms as of 2011, with a total market value of $25.9 Though economic growth remains a highly uncertain area of study, virtually all economists agree that technological innovation plays a central role.

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Venture Funding Entrepreneur CRM Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2014

The “conventional” workspace (drop ceilings, monochromatic cubicles and all) is being phased out in favor of connected spaces that encourage innovation and demand collaboration while still prizing individuality. Apply your company’s CRM or business intelligence systems to internal operations.

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Conference CRM Creativity Committee 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2015

Our ongoing obsession with data and analytics technology, and our reverence for the rare data scientist who reigns supreme over this world, has disillusioned many of us. Typically, marketing teams toil every quarter to document portfolio performance and add commentary (see an example here ).

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Benchmarking Analysis Report CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

What are our markets? Product innovation sits at the intersection of R&D, marketing, and business intelligence. Repeatable core processes, technology and information sharing platforms, and cross-functional teams are all design options that help create seamless linkages. Who is our customer?

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Supply Chain Bureaucracy McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2016

The digital marketplace has created a business imperative that every company be — in some way — a technology company. Even the aspects of marketing that aren’t traditionally thought of as being tech-driven, such as event marketing and mail campaigns, now are. Align your vision.

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Marketing Enterprise Architecture Technology Project 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Target didn't stop collecting and leveraging customer behavior data in its marketing, however. Sometimes data-savvy companies get so excited by their analytical horsepower that they don't stop to think of how their business intelligence is perceived by outside parties. Subtlety sometimes has its place.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Retail Comparison Business Intelligence 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2010

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. Becca has also acted as the product marketing manager for a wide array of technology solutions.

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Resources Process Constraint Objective 50

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2013

CIOs are being tasked with managing internal business systems, cloud-based services, big data innovation, data security, and the 24x7 needs of global customers who access company data on personal devices. Chief "Intelligence" Officer: Fostering business intelligence and getting the right data to the right people.

CIO 8

CIO CFO Chief Information Officer Business Intelligence 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Consider its decision to pursue the market for pharmaceutical distribution, or the recent announcement that it will be teaming up with Berkshire Hathaway and JP Morgan Chase to create joint solutions for reducing the health care spending of more than 1 million employees and their families. .” So where is the link to health care?

Health Care 10

Health Care Retail Operations Insurance 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Finance, Logistics, Marketing, Sales, as well as Production and Quality all produced large amounts of data that could be interesting for data science pilot projects. We needed to shield the team from being flooded by business intelligence reporting projects. Unfortunately, this didn’t narrow it down a whole lot.

Company 10

Company Automotive Project Chief Information Officer 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Like Silicon Valley, Singapore has strong research institutions and limited enforcement of noncompete clauses, a condition that academics now suggest can be a major driver of innovation. Like Israel, Singapore is small, with limited natural resources, which means economic growth requires innovative macroeconomic approaches.

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Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Companies are already making use of this for innovative business intelligence purposes — for example, Derwent Capital Management uses Twitter sentiment to predict stock-market movements. Law officers can monitor gangs and extremists — as well as everyday activists — through a variety of technologies.

Media 15

Media Business Intelligence Software Trends 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2016

The transformation will necessitate substantial investments in finance, technology, human capital, operations, and infrastructure, and a substantial disinvestment of legacy resources in these areas. This pivot will entail a transformation of the workforce, physical infrastructure, and technologies that support and drive the care of patients.

Health Care 8

Health Care Industry Business Model Finance 8