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The Right Way to Present Your Business Case

Harvard Business Review

Clearly articulate this need as soon as you begin, because no matter how well researched or innovative your solution, you won’t get support if the need isn’t apparent or convincing. Make sure you also show how that the need aligns with corporate goals and strategies,” Sheen says. Does the firm need a new IT system?

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How a German Manufacturing Company Set Up Its Analytics Lab

Harvard Business Review

As the goal of the data lab is to create value by analyzing data, we initially focused on the departments that generate the most data. 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. High power demand charges.

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