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In search of insight and foresight

In search of insight and foresight explores how to ask the questions that extract business value from data. It also identifies the traits of companies that are able to use data to achieve superior performance.

How can you get there if you don’t know the route? This may seem an odd question, but a tremendous number of organisations working hard to leverage data to their advantage have no real roadmap.

Technological change in Asia

As decision-makers in global firms seek to expand their businesses in this post-financial-crisis world, they are being pulled in opposite directions. On the one hand, they have to contend with several growth constraints, including tightened budgets, a lack of resources and added regulatory burdens. On the other hand, they have abundant growth opportunities, as continued globalisation increases access to dozens of fast-growing emerging markets.

Big data and consumer products companies

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Big data and consumer products companies: People, processes and culture barriers is an Economist Intelligence Unit report explores a range of issues associated with successfully implementing so-called “big data” initiatives within the global consumer products sector. In particular, it focuses on people and skills challenges; process and organisational structure considerations; and cultural changes as a result of such initiatives. The research was sponsored by SAP.

Stories of the Future

When the Grimm brothers collected fairy tales to publish in their Children’s and Household Tales, they recorded stories that had evolved over generations of tweaks, improvements and polishing by skilled story-tellers.

Fostering a data-driven culture

"Fostering a data-driven culture" explores the challenges in nurturing a data-driven culture, and what companies can do to meet them.

Humans and machines

Humans and machines: The role of people in technology-driven organisations is an Economist Intelligence Unit report, sponsored by Ricoh. The report consists of a series of articles examining issues posed by human-technology interaction in selected sectors (financial services, healthcare, education and manufacturing) and their implications for decision-making, customer relationships and other areas. The sector-specific articles are also being published separately, and can be found here under the "Thought Pieces" tab.

The open corporation: Privacy in a new app culture

As the app culture continues to spread, more and more companies are allowing their employees to use their own smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices in the workplace. The benefits of the trend are many, including potentially lower IT costs and more satisfied employees, who are keen to bring their sleek new tools to the office as quickly as they can acquire them.  However, the advent of consumer technologies in the workplace is causing a new dilemma for employers – how to avoid privacy-related disputes with their employees.

Open corporation: Security

For several years now, employees have been upending business-as-usual by bringing the new electronics, cloud services and social networks they love at home into the office. The invading technologies are numerous, powerful and always on, and their use is exasperatingly difficult for companies to control—a deeply unsettling combination for information security departments.

Open corporation: App culture transforms corporate training

Companies are increasingly exploiting the revolution in mobile applications (apps) as a powerful way to train workers. Smartphones and tablets are replacing traditional classroom-based training, desktop videos and webinars. This new trend is expanding access to data and reference materials and helping to keep employees updated on new procedures and products. Mobile-based learning is also reducing training costs for companies and increasing participation amongst employees.

The open corporation

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