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Competing on Analytics: Updated, with a New Introduction
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Competing on Analytics: Updated, with a New Introduction

by Thomas Davenport, Jeanne Harris, David Abney
August 2017
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
320 pages
8h 6m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
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CHAPTER NINE

THE FUTURE OF ANALYTICAL COMPETITION

APPROACHES DRIVEN BY TECHNOLOGY, HUMAN FACTORS, AND BUSINESS STRATEGY

Throughout this book, we have largely described the present state of analytical competition. In many cases, the analytical competitors we have identified are ahead of their industries in sophistication and progressive practices and are hence bellwethers leading their peers into the future. In this concluding chapter, we speculate broadly on what analytical competitors of the future will be doing differently.

As William Gibson once noted, the future is already here but unevenly distributed. We’ve already observed leading companies beginning to adopt the approaches described later in this chapter, and we believe they’ll simply ...

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ISBN: 9781633693739