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Beware the Analytics Bottleneck

Harvard Business Review

With the pace of digital “always on” streaming devices and technology innovation accelerating, one might think technology would continue to pose a challenge for businesses. With this, we are seeing a fundamental shift in strategic decision making that is powered by big data discovery, a capability that accelerates the time to insight.

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Beware the Analytics Bottleneck

Harvard Business Review

With the pace of digital “always on” streaming devices and technology innovation accelerating, one might think technology would continue to pose a challenge for businesses. It’s a reality: Data is going to keep growing and technology options will follow the same trajectory.

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Change the World and Get to Bed by 10:00

Harvard Business Review

And for many people, the ability to do that is increasingly under assault , as daily rhythms are disrupted by the changing nature of work and always-on technology. They also have the power, through their policies, to change how employees work (and how managers encourage them to). Social Influence. Sense of Involvement.

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We All Work at Enron Now

Harvard Business Review

Investors would fail at seeding tomorrow's disruptive companies and disruptive technologies. All of which might just hold a powerful lesson for the future of advantage — national organizational, and personal. It's not just that in a hypercompetitive world, yesterday's competitive edges are as dull as a plastic spork.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business Review

Long before becoming CEO, in 2016, he was searching for new growth in the hypercompetitive travel reservations market, coming across a pair of small European startups with a business model opposite to Priceline’s in two key ways: Instead of taking an up-front 25% commission on a hotel reservation, the startups charged only 15% after check-out.