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Managing and Using Information Systems: A Strategic Approach - Sixth Edition
Managing and Using Information Systems: A Strategic Approach - Sixth Edition
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John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Chapter 12
Knowledge Management, Business
Intelligence, and Analytics
Opening Case: Netflix
• What gave Netflix assurance that House of Cards
would be a success?
• What gives Netflix a competitive advantage?
Examples: Examples:
• Explicit steps • Estimating work
• Procedure manuals • Deciding best action
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Four Modes of Knowledge Conversion
(and examples)
Transferring by Transferring by
mentoring, models,
apprenticeship metaphors
Skilled Workforce Workforce that has the training, Data scientists, chief data
experience, and capability to use officers, chief analytics officers,
the analytics tools analysts, etc. Netflix, Caesars
and Capital One have these skills
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John Wiley & Sons, Inc.