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Firms Need a Blueprint for Building Their IT Systems

Harvard Business Review

It is, unfortunately, also a great analogy for how many organizations have constructed their IT systems. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. Their structure emerged and continues to evolve without any blueprint or architectural integrity. Systems are implemented to support local initiatives.

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To Make Better Decisions, Combine Datasets

Harvard Business Review

A complicated system is somewhat like a complicated recipe. In a complex system, however, elements can potentially interact in different ways each time because they are interdependent. In a complex system, however, elements can potentially interact in different ways each time because they are interdependent.

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Why Data Will Never Replace Thinking

Harvard Business Review

Said he: The fact is, you can look at information in real time, and you can make minute adjustments, and you can build a closed-loop system, where you continuously change and adjust, and you make no mistakes, because you're picking up signals all the time, and you can adjust. The first is that you can build U.S.

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Why Data Will Never Replace Thinking

Harvard Business Review

Said he: The fact is, you can look at information in real time, and you can make minute adjustments, and you can build a closed-loop system, where you continuously change and adjust, and you make no mistakes, because you're picking up signals all the time, and you can adjust. The first is that you can build U.S.

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