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Case Study: How Would You Save This Farm?

Harvard Business

Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. It just kills me that water doesn’t move to its highest and most productive use. ” Pete nodded and handed out the relevant documents. But not water.

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Where Predictive Analytics Is Having the Biggest Impact

Harvard Business

However, looking at the surveys and consulting reports, it is unclear what the precise use cases are that will drive this positive ROI from big data. Our goal in this article is to offer specific, real-world case studies to show how big data has provided value for companies that have worked with Microsoft’s analytics teams.

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The Deep Flaw in MBB Strategic Planning

CaseInterview.com

With these clients, they often operate in very small industries and there’s just no data available (or affordably available) to analyze. In classic case study analysis, you’d ask them, "What are the market segments?" The purpose of the test, in these cases, is not to succeed or to fail. They’d say, "I don’t know." "How

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Salespeople Need a Strategy for Selling to CEOs

Harvard Business

During their evaluations, they’ll typically ask themselves two questions: Is your product or service better than alternatives, and, equally important, can their people work with you and your organization? Because of this, it will take more than great analysis, a superior product, or a performance improvement to clinch a deal.

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Engaging Employees in Health Care Data Security

Harvard Business

For this industry especially, security policies that reduce productivity are at irreconcilable odds with the organization and its patients. No two organizations are the same, and neither are the cultures and contexts in which they operate. Instead, employees should be inspired to act securely as part of their daily routine.

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Is “Murder by Machine Learning” the New “Death by PowerPoint”?

Harvard Business

Software doesn’t always end up being the productivity panacea that it promises to be. The enterprise history of personal productivity tools offers plenty of unhappy litanies of unintended consequences. The intelligent networks to counter-productivity hell are wired with good intentions. They shouldn’t be so sure.

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Unnecessary Surgeries? You Bet! Doctors Treat Patients as ATMs; US Healthcare System Explained in Six Succinct Points

MishTalk

The Washington Post reports Spinal fusions serve as case study for debate over when certain surgeries are necessary. Yet given his productivity, some hospital auditors wondered: Was all of the surgery really necessary? The court filings make available an array of documents — e-mails, testimony, audits. million a year.