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Big Data Doesn't Work if You Ignore the Small Things that Matter

Harvard Business Review

The government shifted its focus to creating smaller projects on more well-defined deliverables such as on-time patient appointments. I'm not saying that all big-data projects are useless. What If Google Had a Hedge Fund? CXOs with long memories may recall prior panaceas that underdelivered over the long run. Far from it.

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4 Models for Using AI to Make Decisions

Harvard Business Review

Executives who wouldn’t hesitate to automate a factory now flinch at the prospect of deep-learning algorithms dictating their sales strategies and capex. Data scientists in business process algorithmization scenarios are project managers. The implications of success scare them more than the risk of failure.