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Big Data Has Made Decision Making Worse, Not Better, Report Says

Across many industries, both business planning and key decision-making are increasingly informed by big data. As pressure mounts to match business operations to the record pace of current, aggressive market innovation, more organizations are looking to base decisions on hard numbers in order to mitigate risk and raise return. But faulty interpretation of data invites error in deriving and applying insights.

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Cuba's Economic Growth Could Reach 4 Percent Yearly Through 2021, Research Says

As Cuba has begun to liberalize its economy, U.S. companies have begun to show significant interest - and for good reason. The experiences of China, Russia, Vietnam, and the countries of Central and Eastern Europe have shown that such liberalization can lead to rapid economic growth, along with opportunities for multinational companies and foreign investors to stake an early claim in an untapped market.

Asia Pacific, Middle East Cities Head List of Top 50 Retail Markets

JLL's Destination Retail report, which looks at the top cities worldwide for retailing, shows 50 major global cities have risen to the top of the list for mainstream, premium and luxury retailers' expansions.

Manufacturing Jobs on Decline Worldwide, And Globalization Isn't Main Culprit

In America's factories, jobs are disappearing. But despite the political rhetoric, the problem is not mainly globalization. Manufacturing jobs are on the decline in factories around the world.

As E-Commerce Growth Slows in China's Major Cities, 'Low-Tier' Areas Become Attractive

With the most internet users of any country, China is the world's largest and fastest-growing e-commerce market. Capitalizing on opportunities, however, is becoming harder for consumer-facing companies as e-commerce penetration rates plateau in high-tier cities and as digital attackers, especially in the online-to-offline space, cut into incumbents' margins.

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The Future of Logistics? 'Bionic Enhancements' & 'Self-Learning Machines' - Eventually.

Do "self-learning machines" and "bionic enhancements" fill you with wonder about the future of logistics or just cause anxiety headaches? Fortunately, we'll all have several more years to decide how we feel about these technologies and others listed in DHL's third annual "Logistics Trend Radar" report.

Project Management: Building the B2B Commerce Road Map

As modern B2B organizations experience major growth in online business, digital commerce implementation projects have increased in both numbers and complexity.

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Steelworkers Union Ends Call to Limit U.S. Aluminum Imports

The United Steelworkers union has suspended indefinitely an unusual effort to push the United States government to restrict all aluminum imports after the campaign ran into opposition from aluminum companies, the Canadian government and even Canadian members of the union.

Now More Than Ever, Businesses Need to Devote Time to Strategy

Strategic planning is one of the least-loved organizational processes. Executives at most companies criticize it as overly bureaucratic, insufficiently insightful, and ill suited for today's rapidly changing markets. Some even argue that strategic planning is a relic that should be relegated to the past and that organizations seeking to prosper in turbulent times should instead invest in market intelligence and agility. Although the diagnosis is largely right, the prescription is wrong.

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Often-Overlooked Insurance Provision Helps Apparel Industry Defend Intellectual Property Suits

The intellectual property litigation trend in the fashion and apparel industry does not appear to be going out of style anytime soon. Fashion and apparel companies routinely face allegations of copyright, trademark and trade dress infringement.

Number of Manufacturing Jobs Reportedly Repatriated to U.S. Is Disputed

This election season, we've heard Republican and Democratic presidential candidates alike decry international trade deals for sending manufacturing jobs overseas. And candidates have vowed to bring the jobs back. Some factory work is indeed returning from offshore, a movement known as "re-shoring."

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To Advance Business Strategy, Technology Must Be Embedded in 'Integrated Strategy Machine'

This is an age of techno-utopianism. Topics like big data, advanced analytics, and artificial intelligence are at the forefront of the CEO agenda, a sign that companies see technology as a potential answer to many or even most of their challenges.

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