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How Companies Say They’re Using Big Data

Harvard Business Review

After the initial “quick wins” are wrung from cost-reductions, executives are turning their attention to new ways to innovate using data. The biggest impediments to adoption relate to cultural challenges: organizational alignment, resistance or lack of understanding, and change management.

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The Status Quo Is Risky, Too

Harvard Business Review

If your ideas are met with choruses of “that will never work,” “we can’t take that risk,” “let’s just stick with the plan,” your teammates are likely falling prey to a common decision making bias that former Rotman dean Roger Martin refers to as Underestimating the Risk of the Status Quo.