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Complimentary Resource – Best Practices for a BI and Analytics Strategy

Strategy Driven

A growing number of organizations are moving toward having more pervasive Business Intelligence (BI) by turning to evidence-based decision making supported by a range of BI and analytics technology and processes that enable decision makers to have the best possible intelligence about customers, finances, operations, suppliers, and the market.

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The Right Way for an Established Firm to Do an Innovation Pilot with a Startup

Harvard Business Review

For innovation-hungry legacy firms, partnering with a startup can be appealing. With apologies to Tolstoy, all happy start-up partnerships are alike; every unhappy innovation partnership is unhappy in its own way. They don’t seek to assess how well an innovation works; they try to measure how well that innovation works for us.

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How is Big Data Transforming Your 80/20 Analytics?

Harvard Business Review

Indeed, even organizations where top management keeps their eyes glued to KPI-driven dashboards have trouble agreeing on what their Top Ten Most Important Customer/Client 80/20 analytics should be. Customers Decision making Information & technology' From Data to Action An HBR Insight Center. Are You Ready for a Chief Data Officer?

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Bots Won’t Just Help Us Buy Stuff. They’ll Help Us Become Better Versions of Ourselves

Harvard Business Review

” The more creatively, comprehensively, and innovatively these selves can be digitized, the greater the opportunity to help workers develop and deploy the optimal traits and qualities they desire. Tracking which selves deliver the best performance and outcomes could become a new KPI. This should not be seen as creepy or invasive.

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AI Is Going to Change the 80/20 Rule

Harvard Business Review

As machine learning and AI algorithmic innovation transform analytics, I’m betting that next-generation algorithms will supercharge Pareto’s empirically provocative paradigm. For them, KPI stands for “key Pareto information,” not just “key performance indicator.” Everybody won. That must change.

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Four Ways to Scale Digital Capabilities on Your Team

Harvard Business Review

A Center of Excellence model, where an internal unit leads and convenes efforts, can be effective for crafting a digital strategy, driving innovation, and developing guidelines. You can also identify a knowledge sharing goal as a Key Performance Indicator (KPI) of project success, alongside on time and on budget.

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Data-Driven Management Can Also Be Compassionate

Harvard Business Review

” No, Bezos shouldn’t embed a C@D—Crying@Desk—metric on his KPI dashboard. At Amazon’s cultural core, however, data and meaningful analytics are fuel and enzyme for innovation and inspiration. Monitor workplace “affect” as thoughtfully and rigorously as business “effect.”