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Educating Executives Online in Four Dimensions

Renee Boucher Ferguson

I am the proud recipient of an MIT Sloan Executive Education Course certification. Or, my avatar is.

MIT Sloan’s Big Data 4Dx executive education course, held simultaneously in Cambridge and in the virtual world this April, was the first ever to use a gaming interface. Think Second Life for the professional set.

Through the AvayaLive Engage platform, we online students were transported (as avatars) to a virtual auditorium, the classroom setting for the two-day Big Data: Making Complex Things Simpler course.

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Predicting the Performance of Analytics Talent

Renee Boucher Ferguson

The surprising finding that 55% of big data analytics projects are abandoned comes from a recent survey of 300 IT professionals. The most significant challenge with analytics projects, according to the survey? Finding talent. Most (80%) of the respondents said that the top two reasons analytics projects fail is that managers lack the right expertise in house to “connect the dots” around data to form appropriate insights, and projects lack of business context around data.

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The Data & Analytics Initiative

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This Big Idea Initiative is supported by Knowledge Partner, SAS Institute Inc., with whom MIT SMR is collaborating on the development of research materials connected with Analytics and management innovation.

This Data & Analytics Big Idea Initiative supplements the collaborative research content with a range of relevant, independently produced editorial, including MIT SMR original articles, interactive data, blogs, videos and case studies.

Following are links to research that SAS has developed separate from this collaboration:

Managers and Data: A Union in the Making

How managers are exploiting and struggling with their access to more data.

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Do You Need a Data Dictator?

Jeanne Ross (MIT Sloan), interviewed by David Kiron and Renee Boucher Ferguson

Open a newspaper or magazine, click on a news story or case study and there it is, writ large: The promise of big data.

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Annual Reports on Analytics

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From Value to Vision: Reimagining the Possible with Data Analytics

David Kiron et al.

This research report discusses the characteristics of companies that excel at analytics.

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Analytics: The Widening Divide

David Kiron et al.

In this second joint MIT Sloan Management Review and IBM Institute for Business Value study, we see a growing divide.

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Analytics: The New Path to Value

Steve LaValle et al.

The well-documented “data deluge” presents both threats and opportunities.

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