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Domain Knowledge

Lead Change Blog

They know the ins and outs of the business, and can help your organization traverse the landscape and develop new products or services that can help you increase your market share. Like a typical lifecycle, when an SME leaves the firm, the organization suffers some form of loss of knowledge.

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Doing Business in a Big Data World

Strategy Driven

A veteran of knowledge management, business intelligence, and large-scale technology implementation projects with more than fifty companies worldwide, he has been a technical consultant for the Asian Development Bank, has worked for IBM and Computer Sciences Corporation, and was a fellow at Ernst & Young’s Center for Business Innovation.

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Why Your IT Project Needs a Cognitive Scientist

Harvard Business Review

Our research, which has involved studying more than 50 international organizations in a variety of industries, has identified an alternative approach to big data and analytics projects that allows companies to continually exploit data in new ways. This means that project teams need members well versed in the cognitive and behavioral sciences.

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How to Create Remarkable Teams PART 2 – Collaboration

Ask Atma

So the designer teaches everyone about UX/AI, the coders teach about their development methodology, the project managers teach about agile protocols, and the sales people describe what it is like in the field. The more trust that exists between players, the more efficiently the system, market, or organization will work.

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The Worst Failure of All Is Wasting a Failure

Harvard Business Review

Clearly the company was painfully aware of these two failed projects. The head of R&D remembered it as a failure to properly market the innovation. The Chief Marketing Officer recalled that sales and distribution did not achieve planned market presence. Create a knowledge management system.

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Bring in Outside Experts to Mentor Your Team

Harvard Business Review

They contribute technical expertise that an organization does not already have to a critical project or initiative. Mentor/coach: Contributes through others as a formal manager, an idea leader, a project owner, or an informal employee developer. Provide Channels for Sharing Knowledge.

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The IT Challenge of the London Olympics

Harvard Business Review

The fact is, London 2012 is the largest and most sophisticated sports information technology (IT) project of all time. But the complexity of the project is not only a function of having to cover so many clients, sites, and systems. It is also a multi-supplier project with many varied dependencies.