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The Value of Value Chain Analysis in Transforming Your Business

N2Growth Blog

Most think of it as positioning a business within its ecosystem. I have a different take on value chain analysis. I think of a value chain as a graphical representation of all of the work that must be done by a business or work area in order to provide its goods/services (i.e., “value”) to its customers.

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10 Ways to be a Better Team Player :: Women on Business

Women on Business

How can you maintain the integrity of the team and affect the outcome for the positive? Stay positive. Use the Polly-Ana approach and flip negatives into positives wherever possible. The most important asset you will ever have is the ability to positively influence people. Now what to do? Define your success.

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Auditing Algorithms for Bias

Harvard Business Review

Finally, the tool examines the false positive rate across different groups and enforces a user-determined equal rate of false positives across all groups. False positives are one particular form of model error: instances where the model outcome said “yes” when the answer should have been “no.”

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A Dedicated Team of Problem Solvers Can Help Big Companies Act Like Lean Startups

Harvard Business Review

We have a lot of newer businesses that come to us for credit and we need to do due diligence on them. So it’s an incredibly labor intensive process for us to verify whether they are a good credit risk.” Product managers work on issues such as pricing, legal compliance and positioning.

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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. They’re also sharing risk. The positions are there for the taking. They are collaborating with (sometimes highly unlikely) partners.

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What Alan Greenspan Has Learned Since 2008

Harvard Business Review

At that point if you took a survey of what the outlook was, you’d get an overwhelming positive response the day before it falls on its face. Almost everybody is bullish, expects the market to go up, and is fully committed. That tells you a great deal about forecasting. This is the reason why everybody missed September the 15th, 2008.