Innovation

Still the Sexiest Profession Alive

DJ Patil

Where can you find and how do you train these famous data scientists capable of combining technical expertise and comprehension of business stakes?

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Meet the New Boss: Big Data

Joseph Walker

Big Data can help HR managers identify sometimes improbable retention criteria and recruit the right profiles for standardized jobs.

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How Companies Learn Your Secrets

Charles Duhigg

The Target retail chain manages to identify expectant mothers among its customers and predict their purchases according to their stage of pregnancy!

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Recovering from information overload

Derek Dean, Caroline Webb

Reviewing our working habits to fight effectively against the surrounding information frenzy.

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Meeting the Demand for Data Storage

James M. Kaplan, Rishi Roy, Rajesh Srinivasaraghavan

How can businesses optimize the management of the cost, volume and complexity of the stored information?

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Reinventing Your Business Model

Mark W. Johnson, Clayton M. Christensen, Henning Kagermann

Create a radically new economic model to realize successful disruptive innovations.

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Disruptive Change: When Trying Harder Is Part of the Problem

Clark Gilbert, Joseph L. Bower

Resist the sense of urgency to implement disruptive innovations successfully.

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Do You Care About Privacy as Much as Your Customers Do?

The findings of a survey on the sensitivity of Internet users about the respect of their private data.

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Why Does Your “New” Strategy Look Just Like Your Old One?

Graham Kenny

How can we gain insight from external perspectives—or even from our competitors’ examples—to avoid remaining stuck in our vision of the market?

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How AI Changes the Rules: New Imperatives for the Intelligent Organization

MIT SMR Connections

The conclusions of a survey among 2,280 readers of MIT Sloan Management Review, including approximately 80% of business executives, on the way AI is transforming their organizations. 

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