The Sloan Management Review posted last week a great interview with Jeanne Ross, Director of the MIT Sloan Center for Information Systems Research (CISR), where she explains why companies need data dictators.

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They set their information technology systems to restrict electronic access to their research and development servers to only those who were authorized to receive the confidential software, files, and folders stored on them.

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It will provide an opportunity for policy-makers to obtain directly from social scientists information on the results of their research on the reform of welfare systems in Europe and elsewhere in order to make them respond to social security needs, particularly in Europe.

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The other was Mari Maeda, an obscure program manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), who described her work on Advanced Soldier Sensor Information Systems and Technology (ASSIST).

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Armed with the root-cause research, the airline was able to take relatively inexpensive corrective actions, such as synchronizing information systems, clarifying communications procedures, and training pilots in communications skills.

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Information on the number of people living with HIV in Iraq is incomplete due to limited monitoring systems and lack of research on vulnerable groups.

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