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Assess Whether You Have a Data Quality Problem

Harvard Business

(In fact, FAM is a good exercise to know if you hope to be what I call a data provocateur.) To follow its methodology, take these four steps. As a note, I frequently use this exercise in teaching and consulting assignments, and I’ve seen many poorer results and a few better ones.

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Robots Will Replace Doctors, Lawyers, and Other Professionals

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Increasingly, doctors are using checklists, lawyers rely on precedents, and consultants work with methodologies. More recently, there has been a shift to systematization, the use of technology to automate and sometimes transform the way that professional work is done — from workflow systems through to AI-based problem-solving.

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