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Introduction: Data Are Business Assets--The Time is Now to Put Them to Work in Your Organization
Redman, Thomas C.Book Chapter HBS-7680BC-EInformation TechnologiesData and information have many properties that, collectively, present unparalleled opportunities and daunting challenges. Unfortunately, in today's organizations, data and information remain essentially unmanaged assets. Organizations must develop deep understanding of their eclectic properties, where they come from, how they move around, and the myriad ways in which they help create - and destroy - value. This chapter is excerpted from "Data Dr...Starting at €8.20
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Bringing Data and Information to the Marketplace: Facilitators
Redman, Thomas C.Book Chapter HBS-7708BC-EInformation TechnologiesFacilitators help others use data and information more effectively, and some even enable businesses to conceptualize their processes and organizations in entirely new ways. Escalating demands for content are driving escalating demands for facilitation. In addition to describing the many benefits facilitators can provide, this chapter also looks at data mining in detail. Deriving advantage from data mining is fraught with difficulty, but the risk ...Starting at €8.20
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Raising Capital at BzzAgent (B)
Sahlman, William A.; Payton, ChristopherCase HBS-816037-EEntrepreneurshipStarting at €5.74
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Rest Devices
Ghosh, Shikhar; Payton, ChristopherCase HBS-816076-EEntrepreneurshipThe case explores how Tata Motors, India's largest automobile company, developed the Nano, the world's cheapest car. The case focuses on the translation of Ratan Tata's (Chairman of Tata Motors) vision of a safe affordable car for the masses by Ravi Kant, Managing Director of Tata Motors into the Nano Project. The case raises questions around breaking the price - quality barrier and changing existing internal processes to accommodate revolutionar...Starting at €8.20
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Raising Capital at BzzAgent (Abridged)
Sahlman, William A.; Payton, ChristopherCase HBS-816081-EEntrepreneurshipStarting at €8.20
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Anthology: Pivoting the Business Model
Ghosh, Shikhar; Payton, ChristopherCase HBS-817066-EEntrepreneurshipIn July 2014, after 18 months and eight unsuccessful product launches, the CEO of Yabbly has agreed to sell his company to a larger, well-funded startup, providing a return of capital for his investors and a home for his team. Two weeks prior to the scheduled closing, the team launches a final experiment based on the results of a customer interview. After creating a quick landing page and announcing the product launch through social media channel...Starting at €8.20
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Uncharted Play (C)
Ghosh, Shikhar; Payton, Christopher; Huberlie, AliCase HBS-818061-EEntrepreneurshipStarting at €5.74
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Assessing and Improving Data Quality
Redman, Thomas C.Book Chapter HBS-7705BC-EInformation TechnologiesOrganizations with the best data invest their data quality efforts toward preventing errors at their sources. This chapter examines the cases of Tele-Tech Services, Interactive Data, and Morningstar, outlining ten data quality habits that organizations should adopt, and providing tools and role models that will enable managers to baseline their organization's current data quality efforts. This chapter is excerpted from "Data Driven: Profiting fr...Starting at €8.20
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Social Issues in the Management of Data and Information
Redman, Thomas C.Book Chapter HBS-7709BC-EInformation TechnologiesData and information give rise to heated passions and brutal politics. The existence of more data, more needs, and more managers means there is more to fight about. You can minimize the damage by recognizing barriers to the effective management of data and information and the organizational, social and political issues at play in your work environment. Although all politics are local, this chapter offers some guidance on the issue. This chapter ...Starting at €8.20
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Information Technology's Support for Data and Information
Redman, Thomas C.Book Chapter HBS-7713BC-EInformation TechnologiesThe IT department's most important role is to provide applications that ensure that people can access the data they need and understand them, and help those who use them create quality data that will be useful down the road. These applications must be tightly aligned with well-defined business processes - a standard that most organizations fail to meet. There are other roles that IT should perform as well, including being responsible for the tech...Starting at €8.20