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How Chief Data Officers Can Get Their Companies to Collect Clean Data

Harvard Business Review

Cleaning up data downstream is expensive and not scalable, because data is a byproduct of business processes and operations like marketing, sales, plant operations, and so on. This requires close collaboration with the operating units and IT. The same manufacturer analyzed the historical performance of its large IT projects.

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Breaking the Death Grip of Legacy Technologies

Harvard Business Review

Robotics is a good example: It’s obvious that it can increase productivity, but it takes some know-how to put robots to work. Organizations develop processes through repeated problem solving. The Future of Operations. Managers constantly try to fit new market needs to existing processes and routines. Insight Center.