CaseInterview.com

DECEMBER 4, 2019

As you might know, Motorola eventually dominated the pre-smartphone mobile phone market with close to $10 billion in annual sales. In my consulting practice today, I exclusively serve small businesses — some as small as $500,000 a year in sales up to $15 million typically (sometimes up to $300 million). They’d say, "I don’t know."

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 13, 2016

A change in sales or other customer-acquisition processes, for example, will affect multiple aspects of their business models: the types of orders their firms get, capacity planning, operations, delivery, post-sales requirements, and daily interactions among these groups. Who among your current sales team has this ability?

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Harvard Business

MAY 25, 2016

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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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

And because of years of sales history, you can be reasonably certain that you will be successful: You will sell roughly the number of cars you expected to. This is the impulse that leads to detailed requirements and specification documents, but, as we’ve come to understand, this tactic rarely works in software.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 22, 2016

billion, its budget in 2015 was slightly higher than the total gross sales of General Motors. A Harvard Business School case study that Robert Huckman, Sam Travers, and I wrote earlier this year documents what came next. The stakes, in other words, were high.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 23, 2018

For businesses, the predicted results could therefore be complete nonsense, leading to negative outcomes such as bad hires, poor designs, or missed sales forecasts. The document typically describes use cases and scenarios to illustrate its points. Overfitting, like spreadsheet errors, can of course be caught and corrected.

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