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Metadata Processes: What They Are and How to Use Them
Redman, Thomas C.Book Chapter HBS-7714BC-EInformation TechnologiesMetadata processes are those processes through which data about data are developed and kept current. This appendix provides an overview of three metadata processes: data cataloging, data modeling, and data standards. This chapter is excerpted from "Data Driven: Profiting from Your Most Important Business Asset."Starting at €8.20
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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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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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Making Better Decisions: Leveraging Your Organization's Data and Information
Redman, Thomas C.Book Chapter HBS-7706BC-EInformation TechnologiesThe surest way to make and execute better decisions is to fully leverage available data and information. This chapter shows how good decision makers measure outcomes and then apply tools of continuous improvement both to processes and individual decisions, and manage the uncertainty that is inherent in decision making. This chapter is excerpted from "Data Driven: Profiting from Your Most Important Business Asset."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
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Why You Need to Align Your Business With the Biosphere's Rules
Unruh, Gregory C.Book Chapter HBS-5934BC-EService and Operations ManagementDon't use too many fossil fuels. Don't waste paper. For years, companies have been hearing what not to do when it comes to making their business practices more sustainable. But what can you do to make your company both ecologically responsible and financially profitable? Turn to the oldest model of efficient profit-making in existence: the Earth. The same principles that allow nature to continuously produce value are the same ones that will help ...Starting at €8.20
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Power Autonomy: Using the Biosphere's Rules to Renew Your Company With Renewable Energy
Unruh, Gregory C.Book Chapter HBS-5938BC-EService and Operations ManagementExcessive global dependence on fossil fuels is a zero-sum competition that can cost your business dearly. While scientists may disagree about the impact of current levels of climate-changing greenhouse gases, they are essentially unanimous that the forecasted increases will be environmentally ruinous-and potentially ruinous for your company's productivity and reputation. Just as plants carry their energy technology within their structure, your co...Starting at €8.20
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Building the Ecosystem: A Lesson from the Biosphere-Your Business's Green Growth Can Cause Creative Destruction in Your Industry
Unruh, Gregory C.Book Chapter HBS-5946BC-EService and Operations ManagementThe process of release and restructuring-of creative destruction-is what keeps the biosphere productive and allows it to fill even the most extreme environments. As you steer your business toward green growth, you may be undertaking innovations that can foster similar destruction in your industry. You don't have to wait for conditions to change, however, because business doesn't respond only to the external environment. This chapter outlines how ...Starting at €8.20