Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

That’s the research firm IDC’s estimate of the size of the big data market, worldwide, in 2016. trillion , IBM’s estimate of the yearly cost of poor quality data, in the US alone, in 2016. This figure should surprise no one with an interest in big data. But here’s another number: $3.1

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Harvard Business

JUNE 14, 2017

One solution is to become the authoritative source for a particular kind of information. Some firms have managed it, in healthcare and in other arenas — think of QuintilesIMS as a source of pharmaceutical sales data, Nielsen as the authority on TV viewer habits, and the U.S. Census for information about U.S. demographics.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Some extremely successful companies have made great use of recommendation engines to boost sales or improve customer satisfaction. Forbes estimates that in 2015 the company brought in $250 million in revenue, and it predicts a 50% increase in 2016. As a machine learning–native company, Stitch Fix bears watching.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 27, 2017

According to a 2016 report from the UNEP-hosted International Resource Panel , water demand will outstrip supply by 40% by 2030. For example, sales is the focus of potentially big improvements via new tools that can provide better lead generation, forecasting, and targeting. And demand is increasing.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

.” For example, productivity has grown dramatically in the retail sector since 1990; inflation-adjusted sales per employee have grown by roughly 50%. Economic analysis finds that most of this productivity growth is accounted for by a few companies such as Walmart who used information technology to become much more productive.

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