Analytic leaders will conduct dozens, if not hundreds, of hypotheses and scenarios to improve the analytical intelligence of their organization.

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And a drug that manages to makes it into human trials has a mere 8% chance of being approved by the FDA. Contra Gladwell, however, recent history shows that talent, intelligence, and analytical prowess are just as important, if not more so, in the development of successful new medicines.

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What about pulling up sales leads or mining deep Business Intelligence data via rich analytical dashboards?

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The rise in the volume, variety, and velocity of data, the arrival of many new types of analytical tools all across the business intelligence value chain, and the emergence of new forms of computer science dedicated to data processing such as Hadoop, has created a vacuum.

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Third, I'm directing that we strengthen the analytical process, how our analysis -- how our analysts process and integrate the intelligence that they receive.

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With a little help of technology, we have made collective intelligence real and accessible to the many, beyond the limited realm of just analysts and complex analytical tools.

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As it turns out, the patent-pending analytical algorithms used in their system are based on decades of prior work by linguists, forensic scientists, anthropologists and intelligence agencies.

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