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4 Models for Using AI to Make Decisions

Harvard Business Review

Charismatic CEOs enjoy leading and inspiring people, so they don’t like delegating critical business decisions to smart algorithms. Computational autonomy requires that C-suites revisit the hows and whys of delegation. It’s a different kind of engineering.” Who wants clever code bossing them around?

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Centralized Decision Making Helps Kill Bad Products

Harvard Business Review

Engineers and managers toil for months, often years, to conceive, develop, and launch new products. Therefore, decentralized firms may have delegated termination decisions to a product manager, to whom the underperforming product might look satisfactory, centralized firms are more sanguine and ready to pull.

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See Your Company Through the Eyes of a Hacker

Harvard Business Review

Despite spending billions of dollars every year on the latest security products and hiring the best security engineers and analysts, companies are more vulnerable than they’ve ever been. Security is no longer delegable, and the mission of security teams must be synonymous with the mission of the company.

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The Mayo Clinic Model for Running a Value-Improvement Program

Harvard Business Review

One of the team’s central findings is that TDABC cannot be delegated to the finance function. Mayo staffs it value-improvement projects with a project leader to coordinate the team’s work, a systems engineering analyst to conduct process mapping, and a financial analyst to provide relevant data. Select a project team.

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