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Has Jim Goodnight Cracked the Code of Corporate Culture?

Michael Lee Stallard

The report also concluded that the downward trend began long before the Great Recession. During our conversation it was evident that he is proud that SAS is developing software to solve problems in a broad range of fields. The report also concluded that the downward trend began long before the Great Recession.

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Stop Trying to Control How Ex-Employees Use Their Knowledge

Harvard Business Review

The free flow of workers between companies is central to economic growth and innovation. Yet employers are increasingly taking legal action to prevent former employees from using knowledge and skills learned on the job. Employees’ incentives to learn on the job are weaker if they cannot use that knowledge later in their careers.

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Yes, Managing IT Is Your Job

Harvard Business Review

Similar waves of innovative applications of technology (e.g., ERP systems, RFID , knowledge management, business intelligence) have washed over organizations. Managers can no longer take months to develop requirements, then wait for IT, then tell IT that wasn''t what they wanted.

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Design Your Own Profession

Harvard Business Review

Consider journalism, the profession most obviously shattered by this trend. Today the function of finding information can be performed by crowd-sourcers; mappers of local sources; filters and curators of tweets, posts, and liveblogs; algorithm designers, data scientists, and knowledge managers.

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How to Integrate Data and Analytics into Every Part of Your Organization

Harvard Business Review

Start by developing a strategy across the entire enterprise that includes a clear understanding of what you hope to accomplish and how success will be measured. Innovate more effectively? What’s the best way to build effective D&A capabilities? Insight Center. Putting Data to Work. Drive strategy and accelerate change?

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Big Data's Management Revolution

Harvard Business Review

This is simply a group of inexpensive commodity servers whose activities are coordinated by an emerging software framework called Hadoop (named after a toy elephant in the household of Doug Cutting, one of its developers). But the underlying trends, both in the technology and in the business payoff, are unmistakable.