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Customer intent is a treasure trove of actionable data hiding in plain sight

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According to IDC analysts, businesses were estimated to have spent $215 billion in 2021 on big data and business analytics solutions, a 10% increase over 2020. At the same time, data models for understanding customer intent and other insights are not infallible; even data-driven companies are a constant work in progress.

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You Don’t Need to Be a Silicon Valley Startup to Have a Network-Based Strategy

Harvard Business

In the language of networks, the value of the platform provider is not in creating the nodes (whether people, things, or data) but in fostering the connections between the nodes. For most companies intellectual property is something that sits on their balance sheet. Both have the feature of displaying traffic congestion.

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Reflections on 2013; What's Important, What's Not? What's Ahead?

MishTalk

Had I suggested in 2007 that the Fed balance sheet expansion of $75 billion a month would have been considered "tightening" people would have thought I was nuts. There is no clear leadership in the movement. At long last, the Fed has finally started to taper. Here we are. The broad U.S.