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Create a Strategy That Anticipates and Learns

Harvard Business Review

In health care, these tools are changing the way doctors identify people at risk of developing certain diseases; in fashion, they crunch purchasing data to anticipate trends; sales and marketing experts use them to tailor ad campaigns. The definition of a market, customer, partner, or even competitor is now a moving target.

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Create a Strategy That Anticipates and Learns

Harvard Business Review

In health care, these tools are changing the way doctors identify people at risk of developing certain diseases; in fashion, they crunch purchasing data to anticipate trends; sales and marketing experts use them to tailor ad campaigns. The definition of a market, customer, partner, or even competitor is now a moving target.

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Why Management Ideas Matter

Harvard Business Review

Think of Charles Darwin, the ultimate disruptive innovator. Critics lampoon the latest management buzzwords, labeling them as pretentious and shallow. In truth, though, management has made big strides. We have come a long way from Scientific Management and using a stopwatch to manage performance.

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Managing in an Age of Winner-Take-All

Harvard Business Review

The question is: How will management advance to influence the path and force of these revolutions? Consider management actions such as cutting jobs and investment as a response to currency fluctuations and the resulting accounting impact of those cuts on earnings per share (EPS).

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Five Good Reasons to Champion Auto-Analytics in Your Organization

Harvard Business Review

Nike believes so strongly in the growth and profitability of the "auto-analytic" market that it it's about to launch a " FuelBand " that measures oxygen consumption, motion, steps taken per day, and more. Management science has its roots in experimentation and productivity improvement. trillion healthcare market or the $10.5