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Data Can Do for Change Management What It Did for Marketing

Harvard Business Review

Housing market price changes can be more accurately predicted from analysis of Google searches than by a team of expert real estate forecasters. There has been a rapid uptake in health care, consumer marketing, crime reduction, agriculture, scientific research, and many other areas.

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Applying a Model for Small Business Continual Improvement

Deming Institute

How to apply the model. Root cause analysis. Marketing mix. 6 Sigma Statistical tools to analyze Market data BCG matrix. Guest post by Luciana Paulise, see part 1 of these thoughts: Applying Deming Principles at Small and Medium-sized Enterprises. Leadership. 7) Institute modern methods of supervision.

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

Harvard Business Review

The company’s natural language processing technology learns how to write reports by scanning texts and determining relationships between concepts. 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. Market monitoring.