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Benchmarking Report 2015

Innovation Leader

We surveyed nearly 200 innovation leaders, and the result is Innovation Benchmarking Report 2015, a report that gives focus to data that can help solve innovators’ challenges. Download the 40-page study here…

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How Has Innovation Created a Private Space Race?

IdeaScale

Private satellite networks began to come into more common use, reducing the need for government infrastructure in communications and data-gathering. Space agencies began to be asked by their governments to perform more “basic research,” gathering data, refining theories, and reporting on discoveries. Challenges still remain.

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Data Value: Decisions, Data, and Models

Information Playground

One of the more interesting characters at EMC is the Dean of Big Data, Bill Schmarzo. When Dr. Jim Short and I kicked off the Architecting for Value research in 2015, Bill was one of the first people we spoke to. This summer Bill wrote an article sharing his own personal views on calculating the economic value of data.

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Tips for Constructing a Data-Driven Culture

BPI Thought Leadership Commentary

Analytics and data-driven decision making have become something of a holy grail for modern organizations.& & In December 2015, APQC conducted its annual survey to understand the common challenges and priorities of process and performance management practitioners in 2016. Though most organizations have embarked on their an.

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Goodhart’s Law: When a target becomes its own enemy

Idea to Value

In 2015, Google used machine learning to let Google Photos tag faces of friends in uploaded photos. It was poor data and oversight by the people developing, testing and implementing the system that was at fault. That way it could not die. However, other examples are not so harmless. That was not its fault.

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Why Your Company Needs Data Analytics

Daniel Burrus

Data analytics is the science of extracting patterns, trends, and actionable information from large sets of data. Think of business intelligence as the ways in which companies use data to improve their management and operations. Social media has become embedded within nearly every sphere of life.

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Practice Your Way to Winning in 2015

The Human Factor

Making decisions based on assumptions rather than hard data. Refusing to consider data that doesn’t agree with their view of reality. To improve your chances of winning in 2015, practice the following winning habits. When presenting an idea or proposal: State your assumptions and describe the data that led to them.

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