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6 Ways to Keep Good Ideas from Dying at Your Company

Harvard Business Review

And yet when companies suddenly decide to “get more innovative,” starting hackathons, idea competitions, and accelerator programs, they typically forget to address all those things that kill perfectly good ideas after they hatch. Sometimes that requires creating a separate operating structure. Start with a survey.

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Using Big Data to Make Wiser Medical Decisions

Harvard Business Review

As the chief information officer of a large academic medical center, I oversee four petabytes of data. The idea was presented to BIDMC’s senior-management operating council and then to the Board’s IT oversight committee. Is that “big data”?