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7 Steps to Problem Solving

Skip Prichard

New business models are rapidly emerging from revolutionary Internet, machine learning, and bioscience technologies that threaten the status quo in every field. Technology change is speeding business up and providing an edge for disruptive innovators. How will AI impact the bulletproof approach?

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

Women on Business

Here are 10 ways to increase your team’s productivity and overall chance for success. You find yourself in a situation where you are the strongest player assigned to the team. How can you maintain the integrity of the team and affect the outcome for the positive? Define your success.

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How P&G and American Express Are Approaching AI

Harvard Business Review

There is a tendency with any new technology to believe that it requires new management approaches, new organizational structures, and entirely new personnel. That impression is widespread with cognitive technologies — which comprises a range of approaches in artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and deep learning.

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

Harvard Business Review

In fact, it has set up a specific unit – Experian DataLabs — to actively seek out unresolved problems its customers are having and use them as a launchpad to seek out new opportunities and create new products. We have a lot of newer businesses that come to us for credit and we need to do due diligence on them.

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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. Health Information & technology'

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A Practical Approach to Reading Signals in Data

Harvard Business Review

A wealth of database information has been lying dormant in companies for years — only now we have the technology to understand it. 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. Big data isn't new.

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Just Using Big Data Isn’t Enough Anymore

Harvard Business Review

The survey gathers perspectives from a small but influential group of executives — chief information officers, chief data officers, and senior business and technology leaders of Fortune 1000 firms. Among the findings: 63% of firms now report having Big Data in production in 2015, up from just 5% in 2012. Insight Center.