There he had instigated a management revolution, introducing such radical (for New York) changes as budgeting, setting goals and measuring performance.

ECONOMIST: Lexington

In practical terms, the real revolution in management practice comes when the firm starts defining the goals of work in the form of user stories.

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All of this suggests that Big Data will not only be a revolution in data management and search, but that it will also likely bring to the fore a whole new generation of hot companies specializing in building and selling new tools for mining vast amounts of low-quality data for the rare nuggets.

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What is needed is a fundamental revolution in thinking about management.

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He is not offering a Tory Utopia, but better management and greater efficiency: a different emphasis rather than a revolution.

ECONOMIST: David Cameron

And with advances in big data, he sees that as a possibility - he compares the management of big data combined with machine learning with the shipping container revolution in transportation.

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Following her sacking last year, over what was widely acknowledged as very poor management of the economy, Ms Tymoshenko has allied herself, varyingly, with forces opposed to her erstwhile Orange Revolution ally.

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