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Consultant Ninja: Information Visualization Irony: Management.

Consultant Ninja

It lacks functionality and an efficient UI, and is overpriced." - Andy Holaday "Its a cascading hierarchy of awfulness, which almost makes it challenging to critique!" - Tim Wilson "But it’s not just the people with the purse strings who will buy something because its a) pretty, b) expensive and c) they’ve heard of it." - N Barrett.

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Where Predictive Analytics Is Having the Biggest Impact

Harvard Business

The first use case involves predicting demand for consumer products that are in the “long tail” of consumption. This method works well for popular products in large regions but tends to fail when data gets thin because random noise overwhelms the underlying signal. Predicting demand. Predictive maintenance.

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Manufacturing Companies Need to Sell Outcomes, Not Products

Harvard Business

Suppose you owned an airline and ordered an engine from Rolls-Royce or GE. A piece of machinery to meet a product need? The result, or outcome, is that farmers can manage their operations more efficiently and increase crop yields. Product performance data helps inform future improvements. What are you really looking for?

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The Barriers to Recruiting and Employing Digital Talent

Harvard Business

But it’s particularly difficult for large, traditional firms , especially those which operate in consolidated, non-growth industries (think pulp and paper, steel, airlines) and which are often located away from the metropolitan areas where data scientists live. There were no processes in place to share the learning.

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The Right Kind of Conflict Leads to Better Products

Harvard Business

When partners in an alliance come into conflict, it can be just what is needed to produce a technically and commercially successful product. ” This idea that disagreement and conflict between groups can be productive is not new. Similar failures among cockpit crews can lead to airline crashes. The results were fascinating.

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Consultant Ninja: Who is to blame for the mortgage crisis.

Consultant Ninja

There are really 2 market plays given this dynamic: Potential Market Play 1 : Take on the risk, but only if its commesurately balanced with the long-term reward, behaves on the efficient frontier of return, is completely understood, can be insured against external risks, and is aligned with the asset class allocation for your particular needs.

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Consultant Ninja: Dipping my toe in the health care debate.

Consultant Ninja

I fail to see the logic that the government will be more efficient at building operational structures than the private sector. They also happen to be expensive, not because some greedy fat cat is out there, but because that high price justifies the ROI for the R&D in that product in the first place. Productivity. (6).