Harvard Business

JUNE 28, 2018

It can provide an immutable, digital audit trail of transactions, and can be used to cheaply verify the integrity of data. Therefore, storing records that contain a baby’s current location in a way that makes these data points immutable and verifiable seems like a great use of blockchain technology.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

There is a new, even more elusive, bottleneck: the organization itself and its ability to adopt and adapt big data and analytics capabilities. The company knew there was huge value in solving the idle problem, but it could not do so leveraging traditional technologies as the data volumes were too large (i.e.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 30, 2016

Companies have invested millions of dollars in big data and analytics, but recent reports suggest most have yet to see a payoff on these investments. In an age where data is the new oil, how are smart companies extracting insights from these vast data reservoirs in order to fuel profitable decisions?

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Melissa Agnes

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

This is why a big part of your crisis preparedness is to draft and have your crisis communications pre-approved and ready to go. So a bulleted list of pre-approved crisis communications may look something like this: On [date] CompanyX suffered a data breach of [system / data breached].

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 18, 2016

Many of our current economic measurements saw their birth in the Industrial Age when the companies that were growing and shaping the world were giants with big physical plants and lots of material products — companies like Exxon Mobile and GE. Technology Creators generate and deliver intellectual property (software and data).

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Harvard Business

JUNE 16, 2016

Our research and client engagement experience has shown us that generating strong returns from the digital sensors, wireless communications devices, digital cameras installed in buildings and other smart, connected devices does not come down to writing big checks or being technologically savvy. The CIO of HP Inc.,

Productivity 28

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The Nonprofit Consultant

MAY 26, 2006

Or, at least, so says Cristine Cronin ( Seeing the Big Picture on Charities - Yahoo! There are also more official and semi-official watchdogs issuing reports on nonprofit effectiveness, and using data that may be misleading to rate which nonprofits are "the best." Tags: nonprofit , charities , accountability , fundraising

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Confessions of a Consultant

DECEMBER 2, 2018

No big deal. And, this is a big deal. research highlighted that more than 70% of survey participants had a similar experience (to the best of my knowledge, no similar survey data exists in Ireland; we can only guess the numbers). While being attracted to someone is fundamentally human, it can carry a high price tag.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

How Banks Are Capitalizing on a New Wave of Big Data and Analytics. To what extent is your organization’s metadata tagged to make it easily searchable? Read more from Cognizant: What Consumers Want Online Now from Their Health Care Plans. Why the Insurance Industry Can’t Risk Overlooking Artificial Intelligence.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Based on publicly available data, this is about 5% of all Bitcoins in existence right now. Users have even helpfully tagged the wallet address as “Silkroad Seized Coins.”. It’s akin to seizing a computer from a suspect with valuable data inside, but being unable to access it because strong encryption was used to prevent access.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 15, 2016

Devoid of resources for data collection, they tagged along on L’Oréal roadshows, collecting skin tone measurements from thousands of women of color across the country. The big breakthrough came when Atis discovered they could reuse an existing color compound.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2018

The bike was targeted at price-sensitive riders, people who were willing to trade higher battery life and motor power for a lower price tag. If it ever decides to get into the e-bike business, we’ll have hand-delivered all the data it needs to squash us.” ” “That’s the big mystery.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 23, 2017

Even in these early days, practices of successful early adopters offer several useful lessons: Find and own valuable data no one else has. Take a systemic view of your business, and find data adjacencies. Capture the Scarce Data. Once validated, the pattern-finding methodology is strengthened by feeding it more data.

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Harvard Business

MAY 23, 2016

We believe data-driven manufacturing is indeed the next wave that will drive efficient and responsive production systems. While control systems deployed across the supply chain and factory might collect lots of different measurements at many locations, sampling of data is triggered at predetermined times.

Data 35

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

As the use of these expensive drugs grows, there seems to be no way traditional insurance models will be able to pay for them without breaking the bank or requiring patients to assume a big chunk of the cost. Insight Center. The Future of Health Care. Sponsored by Medtronic. Creating better outcomes at reduced cost.

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Harvard Business

MAY 17, 2017

No single party controls the data or the information. The natural decentralization of blockchain means that distance to infrastructure like data centers doesn’t matter. All the goods flowing in and out of developing world countries could be tagged. Distributed Database. Peer-to-Peer Transmission.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 5, 2017

If the next generation is to use AI and big data effectively – if they’re to understand their inherent limitations, and build even better platforms and intelligent systems — we need to prepare them now. Putting Data to Work. Those will be the most useful skills for tomorrow’s data-driven workforce.

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