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Integrate Analytics Across Your Entire Business

Harvard Business Review

A CoE is a team of data scientists, business analysts and domain experts from various business functions — sales, marketing, finance, and R&D, for example — that are brought together to facilitate a cross-pollination of experiences and ideas to find solutions to a variety of business goals. Make collaborative decisions.

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Integrate Analytics Across Your Entire Business

Harvard Business Review

A CoE is a team of data scientists, business analysts and domain experts from various business functions — sales, marketing, finance, and R&D, for example — that are brought together to facilitate a cross-pollination of experiences and ideas to find solutions to a variety of business goals. Make collaborative decisions.

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How Companies Are Using Machine Learning to Get Faster and More Efficient

Harvard Business Review

The London-based startup Arria, for instance, helps its customers automatically generate reports in industries ranging from health care to finance to oil and gas. We’ve seen this in stock trading, marketing, and manufacturing, where more data streams make it harder to find information that is urgent or meaningful.