Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Depending on the engineering background of these data scientists, these work products are either deployed directly to the production system, or if they are prototypes they are handed off to software engineers to help implement, optimize and scale them. In larger and more sophisticated data operations, more fine-grained roles are necessary.

Engineering 15

Engineering Workflows User Experience Software 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2014

To test new software before release, managers of large projects use elaborate test procedures run by teams of “quality assurance” professionals. This traditional testing takes weeks or months, and still misses errors. Continuous integration and automated testing is important for all modern, large scale software development.

Software 9

Software A/B Testing Scaling Operations 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Commercial operations groups tend to be early targets for cuts in a recession. The best commercial operations groups use their staff to execute analytics that produce valuable insights, such as mining the installed customer base for cross-selling opportunities. And successes can be scaled up quickly. Iterative machine learning.

Sales 14

Sales Sales B2B Accounts 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

To be sure, these are not the only tools you’ll need — for example, I haven’t included A/B testing, understanding variation, or visualization here. Poor data is the norm — fouling operations, adding cost, and breeding mistrust in analytics. Scaling Your Team’s Data Skills. Insight Center.

Sales 15

Sales Sales A/B Testing Manager 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

We have algorithms for recommender systems, merchandise buying, inventory management, relationship management, logistics, operations — we even have algorithms for designing clothes! So, you’ll need to provide a data platform that can help abstract them from the intricacies of distributed processing, auto-scaling, etc.

A/B Testing 14

A/B Testing Engineering Metrics Implementation 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2016

Let’s say you’re in the business of drilling oil wells, and you have a new drill bit that is operated by an artificial intelligence program that adjusts the pressure and speed with which you’re turning the bit. If this sorting of participants sounds like A/B testing , that’s because they’re similar.

A/B Testing 12

A/B Testing Accounts Manager Assets 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2018

To this end, they will need to move from pilot programs to large-scale efforts routinely offered across the care spectrum. When formal research trials aren’t practical, providers will need to embrace A/B testing and learn to more rapidly evaluate the effectiveness and scalability of these technologies.

Staffing 8

Staffing A/B Testing Rollout Hospitality 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Definitely the scale. In this election, the campaign has a very large in-house data team dealing with all kinds of targeting analytics and also the online operations. So we'll do a lot of A/B testing with online ads. What are some of the key differences are between Obama's 2008 campaign and what you're seeing in this one?

A/B Testing 10

A/B Testing Marketing Education Operations 10

Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

One of the reasons I’ve been excited about being a professional investor is the ability to apply my skills as an operator. Of course, as an investor you can’t run A/B tests or analyze results directly, but you can form hypotheses, ideate, and apply the same type of thinking. Yes, they can be- but they don’t scale.

Metrics 111

Metrics Scaling Marketing Accounts 111

Andrew Chen

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

And then we layered in payment integration and each time we did that the total growth of the company would actually accelerate which is very hard to do at scale. . And then there’s this dynamics on how does it scale over time, CAC tends to go up, LTV tends to go down. ” “How is it gonna scale?”

Marketing 75

Marketing Metrics Retention eCommerce 75

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2016

The economy we’re operating in today may have been built to serve corporations, but not many corporations are doing well in the digital environment. Even the apparent winners are actually operating on borrowed time and, perhaps more to the point, borrowed money. Outsourcing to robots is just another form of outsourcing.

Assets 8

Assets Balance Sheet Operations A/B Testing 8

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

He and his colleagues spend their productive hours scaling large distributed file systems. In this article, I will share the current architecture and some of the lessons we learned scaling it along with some of the things we are looking to improve upon in the near future. How does your system evolve to meet new scaling challenges?

Scaling 21

Scaling Engineering A/B Testing Manager 21