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StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 50 – An Interview with.

Strategy Driven

Special Edition 50 – An Interview with Marshall Fisher, co-author of The New Science of Retailing examines the use of analytics to improve an organization’s supply chain performance in a way that ultimately enhances the bottom line. Thank you again for listening to the StrategyDriven Podcast !

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Performance Measurement

Strategy Driven

While you can find numerous books focused on the topic of corporate finance, few offer the type of information managers need to help them make important decisions day in and day out. It turned out that the unit was driving profits by raising prices and cutting marketing and advertising expenditures.

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Using Data to Strengthen Your Connections to Customers

Harvard Business Review

But their impact on sales has been underwhelming, primarily because they ignore the needs of one key constituent: the frontline employee working to make the best possible marketing decisions day by day. Measuring Marketing Insights. The same principle applies in other areas of retail. Insight Center. Turning data into action.

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Speeding Up the Digitization of American Health Care

Harvard Business Review

These and many other feats of information management will soon be routine in the United States. Thus, investing in costly and complicated information systems imposes expenses on doctors and hospitals that they cannot recoup through the normal forces of competition. If health care markets functioned well in the U.S,

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How P&G and American Express Are Approaching AI

Harvard Business Review

And they have well-honed approaches for developing the requisite new skills in employees. Ash Gupta is President of Global Credit Risk and Information Management at American Express, and Guy Peri is Chief Data Officer and Vice President of Information Technology at P&G. Augmentation, not automation.

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If Your Company Isn’t Good at Analytics, It’s Not Ready for AI

Harvard Business Review

By contrast, companies with strong basic analytics — such as sales data and market trends — make breakthroughs in complex and critical areas after layering in artificial intelligence. For example, online retailers can adjust product prices daily because they have automated the collection of competitors’ prices.

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