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How To Manage The Data Explosion And Benefit Your Customer
Today we are digitally connected, socially networked, and better informed. Customers live “in the moment,” interacting with friends and sharing their views with hundreds of thousands of fellow...
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4 Trends That Will Pave The Future Of Marketing
The times they are a changin’. As always, Mr. Dylan was pretty prescient about things. Just a few months ago, we were collectively going gaga about nearly every major technology company foraying into...
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Real-Time Solutions = Real Time Savings
As big data continues to explode, many companies are capturing and analyzing the flow of information in real time to predict outcomes, and they are using these insights to prevent fraud, create new...
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3 Reasons Your Big Data Isn’t Making You Smarter [VIDEO]
With 1 billion devices and 2.9 billion people connected worldwide, IT systems are flooded with data. However, instead of bailing themselves out, some companies are embracing this information to drive...
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Preventing Customer Churn With Better Data Analytics
The UK insurance industry suffers the highest rate of customer churn verses other service industry segments. This is according to a report issued by Pitney Bowes and the Chartered Institute of Loss...
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The 10 Most Important Things You Need To Know About The Internet Of Things...
The Internet of Things (IoT) is becoming a hot-button issue for the C-suite. Many senior leaders are concerned whether implementing IoT-based technology and processes is worth the time, money, and...
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Simplify Financial Planning: 5 Advantages Of Thinking Ahead
Planning is everything, but for many financial executives, planning involves an extremely complex process of predicting metrics and budget impacts of sprawling projects with many moving parts. For the...
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3 Steps To Big Data Leadership
I saw a poster the other day that read, “Don’t look back, you’re not going that way.” It’s good advice for life in general, but also for business. Companies today no longer need to constantly look in...
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Customer Trust: The Backbone Of An Innovative Insurer
Companies in the health insurance world are challenged more than ever before. Processing claims is more complex, especially with the enormous amount of data generated, much of which is often fragmented...
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How IoT Could Transform The Chemical Industry: Part II
The cost of adopting IoT is falling rapidly, with the cost of sensors now about 20 percent of what it was just a few short years ago. Just as telling, Forrester Research predicts that by 2020, U.S....
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The Future Of Financial Planning And Analysis: A European Perspective
In a recent global study conducted by CFO Research and sponsored by SAP, finance executives from Europe acknowledge increasing pressure to deliver clear, actionable business insight to their...
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Precision Medicine Can Change Healthcare – If We Overcome Silo Thinking [VIDEO]
“The president gets up every morning and thinks about ISIS, the economy and the Precision Medicine Initiative,” said Kathy Hudson, deputy director for science, outreach and policy at the National...
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Mercy Leverages Technology To Improve 300K Lives
In 1827, Catherine McAuley opened an educational institution in Ireland for homeless women and children. The institution was a success, and later Catherine founded the Sisters of Mercy, the first...
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5 Ways Companies Are Using Big Data Correctly
Big Data is not a new concept, although the term might be relatively new. In simple terms, Big Data refers to information that is useless if it is unused but priceless once it has been correctly...
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How Data Visualization Is Changing Digital Marketing
As consumers have caught on to the gimmicks and pitches so prevalent in traditional advertising, marketers have had to adapt. Now data visualization is forcing them to adapt again. Once upon a time,...
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Will Data Analytics Lead To Breakthrough In Cancer Treatment?
Early this summer, I had the pleasure of talking with Mark Rodgers, North American director of corporate communications and public relations, and Alexander Picker, EVP product management, both from...
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Embrace Big Data In A Big Way [VIDEO]
As more and more companies embrace digital transformation, their competitors are increasingly feeling the pressure to do the same. One of the biggest components of digital transformation is improving...
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It’s Big Data Versus Mother Nature In Texas Showdown
On May 25, 2015, Houston experienced a rain storm of historic proportions. More than 11 inches of rain pounded the region in one night. By morning the highways were flooded, and in the hardest-hit...
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Uber’s Big Data Effect On The Taxi And Transportation Industry
Whenever a disruptive force enters an existing marketplace, chaos and confusion are sure to be present. That certainly seems to be the case when it comes to Uber, as experts and analysts try to measure...
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Be A High-Performing Finance Department, Part 2: Help Your Employees Succeed...
In my last blog in this series, I illustrated the reasons that successful finance functions must transform as they become even more integral to overall business success. This week I’d like to show you...
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One Problem That You Didn’t Know The Pope, Burning Man, And Trump Have In Common
Ever since the upcoming Papal visit in Philadelphia was announced, my husband and I knew that we had to take our three kids into the city and attend the Pope Francis’ speech and Mass. Who knows whether...
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Managing Risk In A Tsunami Of Complexity
The uncertain financial times of the past few years have had a major effect on how companies operate these days. Companies that used to operate effortlessly with the help of forecasts and projections...
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Data And Analytics Are Central For Delivering The Customer-centric Bank of...
Growth in the use of digital channels is changing the reality of banking at a rate few predicted. This reduces costs, but also endangers banks’ sales, which are often still dependent on face-to-face...
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The Judo Of The CDO: The 3 Sutras Of The Modern Information Blackbelt
Last week I was grateful to host 35 chief data officers in Palo Alto for the 2nd annual MIT Chief Data Officer Forum West event. I just marked my two-year anniversary working on MIT’s Chief Data...
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Business Analytics: The Next ‘Must Have’ Item For Fashion Companies
Analysis by Anurag Gupta, SAP Performance Benchmarking From New York to Paris to Hong Kong, the fashion industry lives on the cutting-edge of design, continually re-inventing itself. Every season,...
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From Formula One to Human Resources: The Impact of Big Data
Analysis by Raghu Pant, SAP Performance Benchmarking What can possibly be in common between the fastest racing cars of the world and the HR departments of organizations? As F1 cars speed around the...
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Some wish for it to happen, and others make it happen. When German tennis star Angelique Kerber hits the court to compete against the sport’s top-ranked players, she isn’t relying only on her...
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