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The Value of Value Chain Analysis in Transforming Your Business

N2Growth Blog

The format includes a brief description of the core work activity, a high-level event model which depicts the workflow within the core work activity, and separate discussions of the related people, process and technology issues that underpin each one.

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7 Steps to Problem Solving

Skip Prichard

New business models are rapidly emerging from revolutionary Internet, machine learning, and bioscience technologies that threaten the status quo in every field. Technology change is speeding business up and providing an edge for disruptive innovators. How will AI impact the bulletproof approach? But that isn’t the whole story.

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10 Ways to be a Better Team Player :: Women on Business

Women on Business

Categories : Communications , Ethics , Leadership , decision-making Echo Garrett is the National Practice Manager for KPMGs Financial Credit Risk practice and a Co-Founder of "Her Voice", a National Womens Organization that brings women together for local support and charitable opportunities.

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Auditing Algorithms for Bias

Harvard Business Review

However objective we may intend our technology to be, it is ultimately influenced by the people who build it and the data that feeds it. ” For example, if a person was deemed a low credit risk, granted a loan, and then defaulted on that loan that would be a false positive. The answer so far has been disappointing.

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How P&G and American Express Are Approaching AI

Harvard Business Review

There is a tendency with any new technology to believe that it requires new management approaches, new organizational structures, and entirely new personnel. That impression is widespread with cognitive technologies — which comprises a range of approaches in artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and deep learning.

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A Practical Approach to Reading Signals in Data

Harvard Business Review

A wealth of database information has been lying dormant in companies for years — only now we have the technology to understand it. With fairly few signals in their models, the FICO score doesn't have the ability to distinguish between credit risk in a generally high risk group. Big data isn't new.

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Use Data to Fix the Small Business Lending Gap

Harvard Business Review

With larger volumes of data being used to analyze everything from the genome to traffic patterns and lunch choices, it is natural to ask whether big data can crack the code on small business credit risk. There is reason for optimism.