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Good data should be used to guide our understanding and actions in projects, pandemics, and life.
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January 1, 2022 Bruce Benson
Metrics
In contrast to the flybys typical of GM executives, his first official visit to Rüsselsheim a year ago became a six-hour inspection tour as he took a deep dive into Opel’s operations.
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October 8, 2018 Bruce Benson
Change Management
People think that doctors are immune to petty disagreements, but they're human beings, and sometimes ego and primitive emotions take over.
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September 13, 2018 Bruce Benson
Risk Management
Company executives are supposed to conduct daily conference calls with stores to gauge progress. Queue the MeanMeetingBots.
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August 17, 2018 Bruce Benson
Communication
Essentially, it was by luck. At ongoing hearings, senior bank executive Clive van Horen explained that the error had escaped numerous internal bank controls that should have caught it. The error was finally uncovered after troubling questions were raised over the bank’s overdraft application process...
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April 25, 2018 Bruce Benson
Risk Management
Modern ethos is that all data is valuable, should be stored forever, and that machine learning will one day magically find the value of it.
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January 22, 2018 Bruce Benson
Metrics
Elon to a meeting member: "You haven't said anything. Why are you in here?"
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November 30, 2017 Bruce Benson
Communication
Two days after the board of directors issued a statement that its members had no idea of the allegations of abuse by Weinstein, TNY today quoted board member Lance Maerov admitting he had heard of multiple settlements. Even though he added he believed they were...
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November 3, 2017 Bruce Benson
Honesty
Harvey’s term for torturing the data until it confesses is “p-hacking,” a reference to the p-value, a measure of statistical significance. P-hacking is also known as overfitting, data-mining—or data-snooping, the coinage of Andrew Lo, director of MIT’s Laboratory of Financial Engineering. Says Lo: “The more...
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June 17, 2017 Bruce Benson
Metrics
No Comment
I'll take the credit, but it was simply the magic of finally giving people the information and insight they needed to then get their jobs done.
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April 13, 2017 Bruce Benson
Metrics
Threats of federal intervention aside, it will be difficult to fix the problem of high murder rates without first addressing clearance rates. So it’s fortuitous, perhaps, that we are living in an age in which the analysis of data is supposed to help us decipher,...
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April 6, 2017 Bruce Benson
Metrics
IS researchers have argued enterprise information systems should not be built in a top-down manner but instead facilitate bottom-up innovation. Successful implementation of enterprise wide systems (such as enterprise architecture) will increasingly require negotiation and dialog rather than the imposition of ideas from central IT....
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March 29, 2017 Bruce Benson
Innovation
In the same way that dark matter is an unseen but very large part of the cosmos , dark data represents the unseen but very large part of the data that most corporations collect and store.
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February 23, 2017 Bruce Benson
Metrics
Hospitals keep us healthy right? The best place to be if one is not feeling well has got to be a hospital. Well as it happens, no.
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January 26, 2017 Bruce Benson
Innovation
This is the message that American University history professor Allan Lichtman has been screaming at the world since 1981: It’s not that the polling system itself is broken — instead, polls behave exactly as they’re designed. The problem is they aren’t designed to predict the...
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December 29, 2016 Bruce Benson
Metrics