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3 Common Mistakes That Can Derail Your Team’s Predictive Analytics Efforts

Harvard Business Review

As fashionable as it is, “data science” is not a business objective or a learning objective in and of itself. Prediction is the Holy Grail for more effectively executing mass scale operations in marketing, financial risk, fraud detection, and beyond. Turn it on and let it be your mantra. Insight Center.

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What to Do When Your Future Strategy Clashes with Your Present

Harvard Business Review

Drawing on a powerful tool from the finance world, they conceived of those collections operating as portfolios — each with a specific business objective and time horizon. Those three business portfolios are: The future state portfolio. area health care market has indeed shifted. Competing in New Ways.