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Lead to the future: leadership imperatives for success

Brimstone Consulting

When Andy Frawley took on the roles of Chief Executive Officer and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors in July 2018, the company faced several challenges, including business inefficiencies stemming from a recent merger and inapt product and go-to-market strategies. When an organization is aligned, there is a shared vision.

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Your Team Doesn’t Need a Data Scientist for Simple Analytics

Harvard Business

The mission of enabling data analytics in today’s enterprise is hobbled by the lack of the requisite skills in the marketplace, including: advanced statistics/mathematics, new analytics methodologies, advanced systems analysis, business fundamentals, regulatory and legal understanding, and general IT technical and data architecture skills.

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Top 10 Consulting Firms In New York

Management Consulted

Some of the major practice areas that the NYC region focuses on are corporate development, corporate finance, digital economy, globalization, growth, information technology, marketing & sales operations, people and organization, post merger integration, risk management, strategy, sustainability, and transformation.

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3 Things Are Holding Back Your Analytics, and Technology Isn’t One of Them

Harvard Business

Methodology. The dichotomy continues when it comes to methodology. A large fashion retailer ran into this issue. When analytics and instinct come together, a strategy becomes more powerful. An example of this was the data science team, made up of repurposed actuaries, at a national auto insurance company.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. Matthew Eyring , Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer of Vivint Inc.

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Beware the Analytics Bottleneck

Harvard Business

Using a Big Data Discovery platform and methodology, within 10 weeks the team was able to show more than $70M in savings from analysis from a subset of the locations and could analyze the data at high speeds (e.g. risk models to predict consumer risk to default), segment consumer behavior in an optimized, market friendly fashion (e.g.

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The “Smart Society” of the Future Doesn’t Look Like Science Fiction

Harvard Business

While flights of imagination from science-fiction writers, filmmakers, and techno-futurists involve things like flying cars and teleportation, in practice smart technology is making inroads in a piecemeal fashion, often in rather banal circumstances. Methodology.