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Your C-Suite Needs a Chief Data Officer

Harvard Business Review

Part of his winning formula was in functional centralization, appointing the company's first Chief Marketing Officer — in function if not in name. Data-driven decision-making requires a series of steps best referred to as the "data production line." Gerstner, Jr. Ensuring the company is wired to make data-driven decisions.

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Research: How Cloud Computing Changed Venture Capital

Harvard Business Review

So an innovation that changes the cost of experiments changes the landscape for venture funding. In recent research, we examined a particular innovation that had a broad impact on some types of startups but little to no effect on others. This continues today.

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Europe’s Other Crisis: A Digital Recession

Harvard Business Review

and China take the lead in tech innovation. Our companies have created it, expanded it, perfected it in ways that they can’t compete,” referring to the Europeans. ” The proposal is to create a “Digital Single Market” in the EU. Investing in innovation capacity. million jobs.

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