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7 Steps to Problem Solving

Skip Prichard

Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach.” We believe good organization problem solving will increasingly utilize advances in artificial intelligence to predict patterns in consumer behavior, disease, credit risk, and other complex phenomena. Earl Nightingale.

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For Successful Collaboration, Think Outside the Box

Harvard Business Review

He explained that his organization was highly functionalized with separate units for sales, trading, investing, portfolio management, credit, risk, and operations; some of which reported to him and some to the corporate center.

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Predictive Medicine Depends on Analytics

Harvard Business Review

Think of the colleges that are increasingly able to identify students at risk of dropping out and intervene before they do. Or lenders’ enhanced abilities to gauge credit risk. When predefined treatment goals are attained, both parties contractually benefit. Health Information & technology'

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How P&G and American Express Are Approaching AI

Harvard Business Review

Ash Gupta is President of Global Credit Risk and Information Management at American Express, and Guy Peri is Chief Data Officer and Vice President of Information Technology at P&G. Neither organization has the goal of eliminating large numbers of jobs with cognitive technology. Augmentation, not automation.

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A Practical Approach to Reading Signals in Data

Harvard Business Review

Depending on what you're measuring, it might look something like this: Your goal is to build this matrix, and have it be as large and as complete as possible. With fairly few signals in their models, the FICO score doesn't have the ability to distinguish between credit risk in a generally high risk group.