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Business intelligence vs. predictive analytics: Turn key differences into advantages

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It encompasses data mining, data visualization, performance benchmarking, and descriptive analytics—techniques for parsing data to generate reports, performance measures and trends to reveal insights and make better business decisions. Business intelligence answers the questions, “who are our most valuable/least valuable customers?”

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Management Consulting versus Investment Banking

Management Consulted

This expertise may be as broad as “operations turnaround” and as specific as “benchmarking for insurance companies.” Corollary to point #4 , this is influenced by your firm’s alumni and also the following: -the different recruiters/headhunters that reach out to you. 2) Heavy team interaction.

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What the Companies on the Right Side of the Digital Business Divide Have in Common

Harvard Business

For example, automobile insurance companies like Allstate, Progressive and State Farm have launched programs to use connected devices to monitor customers’ driving patterns. Insurers can use this data to better understand their customers and to price policies accordingly. Digital leaders are 2.3x Digital leaders are 2.6x

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business

How have the firm’s growth, profits, and stock performance compared to a relevant benchmark (NASDAQ for a tech company, for example, or DAX Index for a German firm) during the transformation period? Financial performance.

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Fantasy Healthcare Scenario, Reader Anecdotes, Wildcards; Capital IQ Healthcare Report Link

MishTalk

Companies To investigate the potential intermediate to long-term ramifications of the ACA, GMI Research constructed a proprietary model to evaluate how companies might, over time, move away from the traditional health care insurance relationship with employees. Reader Jon noted "My insurance company was billed $22,000 for hernia surgery.

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Self-Driving "Fully Automated" Vehicles on German Autobahn; Supply Chain Math; Uber and Khan Academy

MishTalk

The cost of finding, recruiting, training and keeping drivers is steadily rising,” Shevell says. Tires, insurance, terminal costs have all risen substantially. It is derived directly from carriers’ financial and operational data and provides a vital benchmarking tool for both carriers and shippers. per mile in 2013.