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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. The format includes a brief description of the core work activity, a high-level event model which depicts the workflow within the core work activity, and separate discussions of the related people, process and technology issues that underpin each one.

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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

However objective we may intend our technology to be, it is ultimately influenced by the people who build it and the data that feeds it. Finally, the tool examines the false positive rate across different groups and enforces a user-determined equal rate of false positives across all groups.

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Predictive Medicine Depends on Analytics

Harvard Business Review

It’s only recently, though, that advances in information technology have made it possible for predictive tools to access and manipulate big data, and to do so continuously — accelerating the generation of insights, and opening up opportunities to anticipate issues with unprecedented precision. They’re also sharing risk.

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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.” Engineers scale up the technology to ensure that it can work in a larger environment.

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What Alan Greenspan Has Learned Since 2008

Harvard Business Review

The technology-stock bubble of the late 1990s and its subsequent deflation were among the defining events of Greenspan’s tenure. 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. They are not. Bubbles and forecasting.