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What strategy is (and what it isn’t):

Strategy Driven

Strategy, Oh what a lofty word. The simple word “strategy” can be added to just about anything to make it sound more important or thought-out, strategic relationship building is still just going to a cocktail party or out to lunch with a potential client. Despite it’s overuse, strategy is still vitally important.

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Top LinkedIn Groups in 2014 for Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining, and Data Science

CTOvision

Overall activity drops about 25%, but membership growth accelerates in Q4 2013. We update our analysis of Top 30 LinkedIn Groups for Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining, and Data Science (Dec 2013) and find several interesting trends. First, we found that growth slowed down in 2013 Q3 but resumed in 2013 Q4 and 2014 Q1.

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Strategic Planning – How Much Should Organizations Spend on Business Planning?

Strategy Driven

Furthermore, these business plans service as a communications mechanism to drive alignment of management decisions and employee actions to the effective and efficient achievement of the organization’s mission goals. You just finished reading Strategic Planning - How Much Should Organizations Spend on Business Planning? !

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How Many Data Scientists are out there?

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for Data Scientist positions, 2006-2014" width="500" height="276" /> However, notice that the demand stopped increasing sometime in 2013. Kaggle reached 100,000 in July 2013, reported 110,000 in Sep 2013, 120,000 members on Oct 23, 2013, reported to have 140,000 on Feb 24, 2014.

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The Hockey Stick Growth Model – A Blueprint for Business Success

Sunflower Lab

Airbnb followed a similar trajectory and achieved Surging Growth from 2013 onwards. Finally, you need to be adaptable and willing to pivot your strategy as needed to keep up with the rapid growth. By using data to measure your progress and success, you can stay on track and adjust your strategy as needed.

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The Top 5 Trends for Digital Transformation in 2018

Loom Systems

Companies implementing smart digital transformation strategies generate better gross margins and realize more earnings and net income than companies that are slower to adopt. In 2013, Gartner forecasted that the Internet of Things installed base would grow to 26 billion units by 2020. Today they state that there are 8.4

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Strategic Cyber Intelligence: White Paper from INSA Provides Important Context For Enterprise Cyber Defense

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Strategic Cyber Intelligence is Essential to Business Security. INSA white paper addresses need for cyber intelligence strategy assessment. This will ultimately lead to improved strategy, policy, architecture, and investment to better protect an organization’s mission and assets.”.