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

Harvard Business

This difference in strategy means that business users are more likely to have access to a consistent set of up-to-date metrics for decision making, and the organization can generate predictions about their business from data they collect. The broad deployment of digital technology requires rethinking both business and operating models.

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How Cloud Computing Is Changing Management

Harvard Business

That makes it imperative to start thinking about how management will be changed by the most impactful information technology of our time: cloud computing. BPM reflected the interactions of different stakeholders, from product creation through supply chain to final assembly. How it effects product design and customer experience.

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Fighting Chronic Disease Starts with Better Pediatric Care

Harvard Business

The goal should be to keep children on a trajectory to becoming productive, successful, healthy adults rather than just treating them when they are sick. Still, these metrics have yet to include broader measures of wellness such as academic achievement, involvement in crime, or job outcomes (i.e., health care outcomes.

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How the Water Industry Learned to Embrace Data

Harvard Business

A water authority in Australia, which deployed a software solution for improving network efficiency, is a case in point. The group met weekly and by doing so they recognized that the software detected faulty incidents and provided a focal point to collect information (e.g., types of problems, magnitude, location, etc.)

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Why Apple’s New HQ Is Nothing Like the Rest of Silicon Valley

Harvard Business

To set this in context, it’s important to first understand the fundamental challenge of building contemporary (and future) workspaces, especially for technology companies: Software and buildings operate on entirely different timescales. That there is no childcare center. Everything else was secondary.”