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How to avoid costly mistakes<br />
ALSO INSIDE:<br />
Executive Edge<br />
Heine Krog Iversen, CEO<br />
of TimeXtender, on why<br />
data professionals must<br />
move up corporate ladder<br />
· New paradigm:<br />
Service as a software<br />
· Big data & better<br />
business decisions<br />
· How to transition<br />
from CSP to DSP<br />
· Healthcare analytics:<br />
What's next?<br />
· Storytelling skills:<br />
The write stuff<br />
· Corporate profile:<br />
Praxair model<br />
INSIDE STORY<br />
Rx for healthcare debate<br />
Five months have come and gone<br />
since the U.S. presidential election and<br />
three months have come and gone since<br />
the inauguration, and yet the country re-<br />
mains evenly divided over almost every-<br />
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