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Big Data In Your Shampoo?

Mills Scofield

.: after years of being the market leader in a specific product category, they quickly begin to lose market share, they wanted to introduce their product into a new market. In the case of the former, they typically would want to know why and how could they innovate their current product to regain their position as number one.

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Innovating the Toyota, and YouTube, Way

Harvard Business Review

As global innovators, however, they share a remarkable core value and best practice: they invest in the innovative capabilities of their suppliers. While lean production has almost nothing to do with video production, the clear message was that genuinely lean enterprise craved innovation that made their suppliers more innovative.

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Workforce Analytics Isn't as Scary as It Sounds

Harvard Business Review

How many organizations would rely mainly on intuition when taking a new product to market? How can we share insights and innovations that allow our employees to be more productive? So early on, Finance and HR collaborated to simplify the process, reducing the number of data metrics. Are employees fully engaged and motivated?

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