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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. It is this sort of operational excellence that needs to work hand-in-hand with a strong digital front-end to deliver great products and services. Rob Siegel. Why is this?

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Meet Your Company's New Chief Customer Officer

Harvard Business Review

Today, the new Chief Customer Officer role — a position that I believe most smart companies will create in the upcoming decade — is well-suited to the skills of a CI leader. In his research, he reports that these individuals typically have extensive sales, marketing and operational backgrounds.

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Manufacturing Companies Need to Sell Outcomes, Not Products

Harvard Business Review

This question has been top of mind lately among manufacturers aiming to drive profitable growth, triggering a fundamental shift to the way a business operates that increasingly focuses on outcomes. Technology advancements and the Industrial Internet of Things are making this outcome orientation more feasible every day.

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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.

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How to Get More Value Out of Your Data Analysts

Harvard Business Review

If you want to put analytics to work and build a more analytical organization, you need two cadres of employees: Analytics professionals to mine and prepare data, perform statistical operations, build models, and program the surrounding business applications. million business people with the know-how to put big data analytics to use.

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Just Adding a Chief Data Officer Isn’t Enough

Harvard Business Review

The proliferation of C-suite roles is an indication of the increasing strategic and operational complexity organizations face. Brad Peters, CEO of Birst, a business intelligence company, raised the issue of incentives and structure with me in an interview at Saleforce.com’s Dreamforce conference. Technology'

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What Data Scientists Really Do, According to 35 Data Scientists

Harvard Business Review

How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. Drew Conway and I discussed his company Alluvium, which “uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to turn massive data streams produced by industrial operations into insights.” Insight Center. Adopting AI.

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