Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

With increasingly vast bodies of knowledge about experiences, one can see how business Intelligence, with enough computing power, became Artificial Intelligence. Famously, Steve Jobs had no interest in market research when imagining where Apple needed to go next. No driver necessary. The second is to lead innovation.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. They are tasked with mining through data to find answers to particular business problems. Treating analytical resources like marketing dollars will help ensure wise investment.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2015

If you're looking to conduct cross-continent business, know that you can, but the task is not easy. Managing one location has it's own challenges like keeping up with all of your departments including Human Resources, sales, marketing and the like. Expanding to new markets and managing your global business is in your forte.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2012

The good news is that as information usage increases business intelligence tools are building support for communities of users. When Bill in Finance generates his monthly Top Line report, Craig in Marketing can leave a comment on the "Revenue" column inquiring, "Is this billed revenue or booked revenue?" And in a Web 2.0

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Front-line sales professionals and managers rarely find the majority of these capabilities useful in winning more business for the company. CRMs today also serve a lot of masters, from executives in the C-suite, technology, marketing, finance, and, oh yeah, sales. Integrate your marketing efforts with sales activity.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

An impatient marketing or finance manager would, on the sly, secure some extra budget money and hire a contractor to build a little database that tracked mailing addresses or top-line financials. They're simpler to implement than their enterprise-wide counterparts and business people see them as worthwhile and cost-effective.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

By the end of October in 2010, the market value of the 100 constituent stocks reached 582 billion RMB, accounting for 31% of the total market value of the Shanghai Stock Exchange's A shares. His friend, Dr. Shiping Liu, founder and CEO of Global Business Intelligence Consulting Co.,

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

With the swipe of a credit card, the customer support team can move to Zendesk or Desk.com; the HR team lives on Workday; the business intelligence group moves to GoodData or Domo; the finance team logs into Netsuite; the marketing department orbits around Marketo and Salesforce''s marketing cloud.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

By this logic, there’s no reason to applaud the growing number of graduates from top universities opting for jobs in startups and tech rather than finance. GDP, according to Harvard Business School professor Josh Lerner , venture-backed companies made up more than 11% of public firms as of 2011, with a total market value of $25.9

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Brad Peters, CEO of Birst, a business intelligence company, raised the issue of incentives and structure with me in an interview at Saleforce.com’s Dreamforce conference. Though he was writing about Chief Marketing Officers, his advice is equally valuable here.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Finance, Logistics, Marketing, Sales, as well as Production and Quality all produced large amounts of data that could be interesting for data science pilot projects. We needed to shield the team from being flooded by business intelligence reporting projects. Unfortunately, this didn’t narrow it down a whole lot.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2015

Here are ways to delegate the work to your analytics technologies: • Next-Gen Business Intelligence (BI) and data visualization. At its core, next-gen business intelligence is bringing data and analytics to life to help companies improve and optimize their decision-making and organizational performance.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

ERP systems, RFID , knowledge management, business intelligence) have washed over organizations. I believe that IT will become a more integrated operational component of delivering business results, as at ING. IT went from being a potential source of competitive advantage to being a necessity for competitive parity.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

Adobe’s radical transformation from a product-based business model to a service-based one raised eyebrows in the industry, with many software vendors now wondering how radically they should approach the SaaS model.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2016

The consensus is the challenges facing them will be daunting and organizations will be strained to finance and manage it. The transformation will necessitate substantial investments in finance, technology, human capital, operations, and infrastructure, and a substantial disinvestment of legacy resources in these areas.

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