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APRIL 5, 2019

O NE OF the unfortunate side effects of living in an age of accelerating technology is having to deal with increased uncertainty. We tend to see situations in one of two ways: either events are certain and can, therefore, be managed by planning, investment, and reliable budgets; or they are uncertain, and we cannot manage them.

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Uncertainty Sports Credit Rating Learning-by-Doing 337

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2016

Customer relationship management software revolutionized how companies manage their sales pipelines. Now a new breed of software applications is reshaping sales force management. It notifies a company if one of its competitors files a credit check on a customer, signaling potential defection. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Software Credit Rating B2B Tools 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2011

From falsified mortgage applications and bundles of toxic mortgages, to incorrect credit ratings and balance sheets that couldn't be trusted, the financial crisis is as much about bad data as it is about unfettered greed. But they don't manage them that way. to manage quality. You need a quality program that does so.

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Health Care Credit Rating Quality Reputation 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Here's something that senior managers should keep in mind as they launch Big Data initiatives: Advanced analytics is mostly about finding relationships between different sets of data. Say you're a manager at a consumer retail store — how many web customers also purchase at your brick and mortar stores, and how often?

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Insurance Team Credit Scoring Retail 16

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

As the new general manager of the Global Research & Innovative Technology Center (GRIT) at Hitachi Metals, Kenichi Inoue is tasked with creating an updated framework for research and development in advanced materials, helping his organization make the shift to a new approach to engineering and innovation in a disrupted world.

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Engineering Innovation Content Credit Rating 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2016

The technology most likely to change the next decade of business is not the social web, big data, the cloud, robotics, or even artificial intelligence. It’s the blockchain, the technology behind digital currencies like Bitcoin. Blockchain technology is complex, but the idea is simple. They make it difficult to cheat.

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Technology Cost Credit Rating Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

Much has been made of the potential for blockchain technologies to open up new vistas for business and society. But is there a way for this revolutionary technology to empower the rich and poor alike? How Blockchain Works Here are five basic principles underlying the technology. Distributed Database.

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