Analytics & Business Intelligence
Elevating Data, Analytics to the C-Suite
The implications of a chief analytics officer for strategy and for long-term planning.
Decision-Making
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Developing Strategy
From the Editor: Decision Making in the Digital Age
We live in an age of data abundance, but that doesn’t make decision-making less challenging.
Martha E. Mangelsdorf
Collaboration
Social Business: Flat or Hierarchical? A Surprising Answer
“Loosely coupled” organizations are models for managing a social media-driven business environment.
Gerald C. (Jerry) Kane
Chief Marketing Officers See True Value in Social Media
A survey of 100 CMOs says that more than 89% are influenced by social data when making decisions.
Crisis Management
How to Lead During a Crisis: Lessons From the Rescue of the Chilean Miners
A look at key leadership decisions made during the 2010 mine cave-in crisis.
Michael Useem, Rodrigo Jordán and Matko Koljatic
Quality & Service
What Really Happened to Toyota?
This article assesses root causes of the highly publicized recalls of Toyota vehicles in the U.S.
Robert E. Cole
Innovation Strategy
Is Your Company Choosing the Best Innovation Ideas?
Generating good innovation proposals from within the ranks of the organization is only the beginning. The more difficult part is creating a selection process that identifies which ideas to implement.
Markus Reitzig
Analytics & Business Intelligence
How Fast and Flexible Do You Want Your Information, Really?
We should aim not for faster information but faster decision making — not the same things.
Thomas H. Davenport and Jim Hagemann Snabe
Analytics & Business Intelligence
Why Companies Have to Trade “Perfect Data” for “Fast Info”
Ali Riaz and Sid Probstein (Attivo), interviewed by Michael S. Hopkins
Climate Change
What’s Your Company’s Sustainability Filter?
Roberta Bowman (Duke Energy), interviewed by Michael S. Hopkins
Project Management
Putting It Together: How to Succeed in Distributed Product Development
Outsourcing complex product development work subjects companies to significant uncertainty.
Jason Amaral, Edward G. Anderson Jr. and Geoffrey G. Parker
