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Big data: What’s your plan?

March 2013—Many companies don’t have one. Here’s how to get started.more

Competing through big data and advanced analytics

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Are you ready for the era of ‘big data’?

October 2011—Radical customization, constant experimentation, and novel business models will be new hallmarks of competition as companies capture and analyze huge volumes of data. Here’s what you should know.more

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Seizing the potential of ‘big data’

October 2011—Companies are learning to use large-scale data gathering and analytics to shape strategy. Their experiences highlight the principles—and potential—of big data.more

Competing through data Three experts offer their game plans
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Competing through data: Three experts offer their game plans

October 2011—MIT professor Erik Brynjolfsson, Cloudera cofounder Jeff Hammerbacher, and Butler University men’s basketball coach Brad Stevens reflect on the power of data.more

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Question for your HR chief Are we using our people data to create value
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Question for your HR chief: Are we using our ‘people data’ to create value?

March 2011—By analyzing the links between people practices and productivity, some companies are improving their bottom line.more

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Clouds, big data, and smart assets: Ten tech-enabled business trends to watch

August 2010—Advancing technologies and their swift adoption are upending traditional business models. Senior executives need to think strategically about how to prepare their organizations for the challenging new environment.more

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The Internet of Things

March 2010—More objects are becoming embedded with sensors and gaining the ability to communicate. The resulting information networks promise to create new business models, improve business processes, and reduce costs and risks.more

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Harnessing social media

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Six social-media skills every leader needs

February 2013—Organizational social-media literacy is fast becoming a source of competitive advantage. Learn, through the lens of executives at General Electric, how you and your leaders can keep up.more

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How ‘social intelligence’ can guide decisions

November 2012—By offering decision makers rich real-time data, social media is giving some companies fresh strategic insight. more

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Capturing business value with social technologies

November 2012—As these powerful technologies shake up productivity and growth across industries, they will create new organizational imperatives.more

The social side of strategy
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The social side of strategy

May 2012—Crowdsourcing your strategy may sound crazy. But a few pioneering companies are starting to do just that, boosting organizational alignment in the process. Should you join them?more

Rewiring the corporation

The rise of the networked enterprise Web 20 finds its payday
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The rise of the networked enterprise: Web 2.0 finds its payday

December 2010—McKinsey’s new survey research finds that companies using the Web intensively gain greater market share and higher margins.more

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The next step in open innovation
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The next step in open innovation

June 2008—The creation of knowledge, products, and services by online communities of companies and consumers is still in its earliest stages. Who knows where it will lead?more

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Creation nets: Getting the most from open innovation

May 2006—A typical large company can no longer rely solely on its own resources. Creation networks are a promising way to move beyond them.more

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The next revolution in interactions

November 2005—Successful efforts to exploit the growing importance of complex interactions could well generate durable competitive advantages. more

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Unbundling the corporation

June 2000—The forces that fractured the computer industry are bearing down on all industries. In the face of changing interaction costs and the new economics of electronic networks, companies must ask themselves the most basic of all questions: what business are we in?more

A revolution in interaction
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A revolution in interaction

February 1997—A new study of interactions reveals how pervasive they are. As they increase in number, answers to fundamental questions about intergration, scale, and scope will change. But what will happen when workers can carry out their jobs in half the time?more

Summary

Big data, analytics, and intelligent networks, following in the footsteps of other forms of information technology, are transforming competition. The quest for a more responsive, innovative, and efficient digital organization is a high priority.