Businesses need to instil a culture of data-driven decisions, supported by the people, processes and technology - especially analytics - to ensure success.

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Colleagues remember him as a tireless champion of data-driven decisions.

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Venables: Where, given the fact that you are encouraging more data-driven, informative decisions by policy makers and having the general public be better informed by looking at better research, what should we talk about in the national debate about media influence on violence?

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One of the typical manifestations of an immature data-driven culture is that decisions are being made by the wrong people.

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We learned to out innovate our tech competitors, to be data-driven, to make hard decisions, and to stay hungry.

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Google is famously data-driven when it comes to making decisions.

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