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Analytics & Business Intelligence
Better Decision Making with Objective Data is Impossible
As businesses become increasingly data-focused, it’s important to recognize that data is only as good as the analysis it’s put through.
Sam Ransbotham
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The Human Factor in Analytics Success
By skillfully managing the human side of its analytics strategy, Intermountain Healthcare empowers doctors and other users to make data-driven process changes that improve business results and patient outcomes.
Christopher Mazzei, Global Chief Analytics Officer, EY
Leadership Skills
Staying in the Know
How can executives best distinguish usable information from distracting noise?
Davide Nicolini, Maja Korica, and Keith Ruddle
Data & Data Culture
General Mills Builds Up Big Data to Answer Big Questions
Companies adding analytics professionals must navigate cultural tradition and turf tensions.
Wayde Fleener (General Mills), interviewed by Michael Fitzgerald
Leadership Skills
How to Manage Too Many Good Choices
It’s easier to make good decisions if you remove yourself from information overload and consider choices more abstractly.
Bruce Posner
Executing Strategy
When Consensus Hurts the Company
Research offers insights into when trying to reach consensus is the right course, and when it isn’t.
Felipe A. Csaszar and Alfredo Enrione
Managing Your Career
Beware the Winning Streak
How well do people factor past performance into their expectations for the future? Not very, according to studies.
Bruce Posner
Leadership Skills
Does Deciding to Seek Advice Signal Weakness?
A willingness to ask for advice on difficult problems can increase your perceived competence.
Bruce Posner
Data & Data Culture
What Is Analytics Amplifying in Your Organization?
Analytics acts as an amplifier for business processes — but companies should keep four principles in mind to avoid increasing “noise.”
Sam Ransbotham
Leadership Skills
For Many Decisions, Just Go With the Flow
For many decisions, letting your mind wander to a choice that you feel drawn to — rather than weighing all the options — is ample.
Bruce Posner
Customers
How to Tee Up Choices: The Upside of Default Rules
How much choice do people really want? Default rules, which establish decision-making starting points, can help.
Bruce Posner
Platforms & Ecosystems
Simplifying the Enterprise Social Media Landscape
Social media platforms abound. Is there a simple way to decide which one(s) a company should focus on?
Gerald C. Kane
Leadership Skills
Balancing Exploration and Exploitation
New research offers insights into factors that can affect the decision-making process.
Bruce Posner
Leadership Skills
From the Editor: In Praise of Humility
The Winter 2015 issue of MIT SMR highlights decision making — and acknowledging that you don’t have all the answers.
Martha E. Mangelsdorf
Leadership Skills
Why You Decide the Way You Do
Six scholarly articles offer intriguing insights into factors that can affect the decision-making process.
Bruce Posner
Developing Strategy
The Power of Asking Pivotal Questions
Asking the right questions can help you broaden your perspective — and make smarter decisions.
Paul J.H. Schoemaker and Steven Krupp
Analytics & Business Intelligence
Using Simulated Experience to Make Sense of Big Data
Simulations can help shrink the gap between what analysts try to explain and what decision makers understand.
Robin M. Hogarth and Emre Soyer
Organizational Structure
Why Managers Still Matter
Managerial authority is essential when decisions are time-sensitive, knowledge is concentrated and decisions need to be coordinated.
Nicolai J. Foss and Peter G. Klein
Analytics & Business Intelligence
Elevating Data, Analytics to the C-Suite
The implications of a chief analytics officer for strategy and for long-term planning.