Success Comes From Better Data

Extracted 09AUG2011 from http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/08/success_comes_from_better_data.html

Many organizations have spent the last few years hiring top analysts based on the belief that they create differentiation. Smart companies such as Google believe they need savants to crunch those numbers and find the connections that regular humans could not. But my experience, and what I'm hearing from more organizations (sports and non), shows that real advantage comes from unique data that no one else has.

...people in the workforce everywhere should think about what key data you could gather that no one has or even what new product or service you could start that would give you access to data that no one has. That's the way to create an edge today.