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• What businesses need to do to turn data into information that guides decision-making
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Editor’s note
Good decision-making in business relies on data, Peter Whitehead writes
The final frontier of business advantage
Alan Cane on the challenges of extracting useful information from huge volumes of organisational data
Resources: Finding a home for all that data
To cope with leaps in information quantity, businesses should focus on quality. Stephen Pritchard reports
Displaying the intelligence: Search goes on for a ‘single view of the truth’
Ross Tieman says that, first of all, organisations must find out who wants or needs to know what
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