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Big Data @ Work: A book review by Bob Morris

February 27, 2014

Big Data @ Work: Dispelling the Myths, Uncovering the Opportunities Thomas H. Davenport Harvard Business Review Press (2014) How to make much better decisions about and then with big data systems and capabilities Over the years, I have read and…

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Brain Food Nuggets (81-90)

February 27, 2014

The buffet awaits: o “A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and…

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Phil Rosenzweig on “The benefits—and limits—of decision models”

February 27, 2014

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Phil Rosenzweig for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out a wealth of other resources, learn more about the firm, and register…

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Confabulations of Everyday Life: Is a memoir ever free from fiction, if not outright lies?

February 26, 2014

“A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person’s life and gives an account of it.” Richard Hell Here is a recent post by Bruce Poulsen in his column “Reality Play” featured by Psychology Today. To…

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David Shaked on “Guiding Principles of Change for Process Improvement”

February 26, 2014

In Strength-Based Lean Six Sigma: Building Positive and Engaging Business Improvement, David Shaked explains how and why one approach to Lean Six Sigma “is more natural to work with and more sustainable in the long run.” He provides an abundance…

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Rita Gunther McGrath, Part 1: An Interview by Bob Morris

February 26, 2014

Rita Gunther McGrath, a Professor at Columbia Business School, is regarded as one of the world’s top experts on strategy and innovation with particular emphasis on developing sound strategy in uncertain and volatile environments. Her ideas are widely used by…

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On Becoming a Digital Person: Technology not only changes the world but it also changes us.

February 25, 2014

Here is a recent post by Bruce Poulsen in his column “Reality Play” featured by Psychology Today. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. * * * In his new book, The…

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Leadership 2030: A book review by Bob Morris

February 25, 2014

Leadership 2030: The Six Megatrends You Need to Understand to Lead Your Company into the Future Georg Vielmetter and Yvonne Sell AMACOM (2014) Valuable lessons to be learned from six megatrends and their possible/probable implications I am in substantial debt…

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Peter Weill on Digitally Driven Customer-Centricity

February 25, 2014

Peter Weill is chairman and senior research scientist at the Center for Information Systems Research (CISR) at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He recently spoke with The Boston Consulting Group’s Benjamin Rehberg about ways that financial services companies can…

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Can computers out-think human beings?

February 24, 2014

Opinions are divided — sometimes sharply divided — about whether or not computers can or ever will out-think human beings. In “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” published in a British journal, Mind (1950), Alan Turing proposed a test to determine whether…

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