Tag Archive for: business intelligence

Blame Big Data for CVS’s endless miles of receipts

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Buy a single item at CVS and you can end up with a 4'-6'-long ribbon of register tape, a kind of orgy of coupons and come-ons. The phenomenon of the farcically long CVS receipt goes back to 2008 or so, when the company started buying…

How Information Gives You Competitive Advantage

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Michael E. PorterVictor E. Millar HBR Harvard Business Review FROM THE JULY 1985 issue The information revolution is sweeping through our economy. No company can escape its effects. Dramatic reductions in the cost of obtaining,…

Facebook knows Facebook isn’t the future. Is it too late to build a better network?

By Jacob Kastrenakes@jake_k  Mar 7, 2019, 10:15am ESTSHARE Five paragraphs into the monster blog post that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg published yesterday afternoon, he makes a damning, strangely understated admission:…

Excel Office Pays to Read!

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EOS had its first book club meeting of 2019.  We pay employees to read.  We had a great dialog about how we can grow and scale our business to be a $100 million.  It all starts with people who don't want to be good, they want to be great. #relentless…

Technology budgets: From value preservation to value creation

Deloitte Insights Article November 28, 2017 CIO Insider Khalid Kark Anjali Shaikh Caroline Brown Technology permeates every business function and has the potential to impact all…

The 18 Top Use Cases of Artificial Intelligence in Banks

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by Tim Sloane  November 6, 2018 This article in CustomerThink identifies many different solutions where Artificial Intelligence can enhance banking, but makes it appear these solutions are already widely deployed.…

8 ways IBM Watson Analytics is transforming business

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IBM Watson Analytics is a cloud-based data discovery service intended to provide the benefits of advanced analytics without the complexity. Here are eight organizations using Watson Analytics to transform their operations. By Thor…

Gartner: Cloud, enterprise software to drive global IT spending increase

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Thinkstock By Marc Ferranti CIO | JAN 28, 2019 8:35 AM PT Spending on enterprise software, particularly cloud services and applications, is expected to grow faster than any other category of IT this year, fueling an overall…

How do companies use my loyalty card data?

Image copyrightGETTY IMAGES Allegations that research firm Cambridge Analytica misused the data of 50 million people has thrust the issue of data privacy into the spotlight. A huge amount of consumer data is available and - if obtained -…

Virtual Health Care Could Save the U.S. Billions Each Year

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TECHNOLOGY Kaveh Safavi Frances Dare PHIL MARDEN/GETTY IMAGES The conventional wisdom that the best care is delivered in-person by experienced caregivers may soon be overturned. Rising…