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A delicate balance
Organizational barriers to evidence-based management
James Guszcza and John Lucker
I have not yet begun to shop … or have I?
Smarter phones, smarter shoppers and strategies for a new consumer perspective
Pat Conroy and Anupam Narula
Making sense of social data
Digital exhaust, and the next frontier in social data analytics
Doug Palmer,Vikram Mahidhar and Dan Elber
We create data constantly, leaking information about our actions, whereabouts and characteristics. Increasingly these data are stored, analyzed and put to use, to understand us and our behaviors at an extraordinarily granular level – and forcing executives to rethink how they understand, reach and even influence their customers.
Signal strength
The rise and promise of asset intelligence
Doug Standley and Jane Griffin
From factory floors to finished goods, almost anything now can produce signals about its status and become a trusted element in business operations. But can asset intelligence deliver on its promise, or will it bring more information than anyone can possibly manage?
Beyond the numbers: Analytics as a strategic capability
James Guszcza and John Lucker
The business landscape is rapidly changing thanks to big computing, big data, and correspondingly robust machine learning and optimization techniques. Forward-thinking companies that embrace analytics early can change the competitive dynamic by executing their core competencies and strategies better than their competitors.
Caught in the middle
How government contractors—and other businesses—can use analytics to address improper payment risk across the value chain
Pasquale Nigro, Kirk Petrie and Kristin Bone
The U.S. government now uses sophisticated analytics to identify and investigate improper payments. By adopting similar tools and processes, companies doing business with the government can reduce risk.

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Irrational expectations
How statistical thinking can lead us to better decisions.
Rank ignorance
The intent of performance rankings is to identify which companies have demonstrated exemplary performance. But to understand the relative performance of individual companies, we must strip away the influence of factors that obscure the contributions of firm-level attributes.