He said he relied on intuition, a sense of the market: more female drinkers, the move to beer among wine drinkers, the demand for low-calorie drinks.
Recently, the Corporate Executive Board developed a tool it calls Insight IQ and used it to assess the tendency of managers to rely on intuition versus analysis.
First, the companies that had the data they needed and used it to make decisions (instead of relying more on intuition and expertise) had the highest productivity and profitability.
It was once believed that computers could never beat the best human at chess, because computers perform very inefficient brute force attacks on problems, instead of relying on intuition and hierarchical structures like our brains do.
Other times, I generally went on intuition.
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My experience is that every CEO I know DOES use analysis, but what is far more visible to them is how they have to rely on intuition to fill in the gaps, and this is what they self-report.
Therefore, instead of using it as a map for your organization, ignore its conclusion, ignore the scenarios themselves, and think about the trends, forces and events that the NIC identifies, and then add your own, based on your intuition and expertise.
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The Phillies, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer, take the more old-fashioned approach of relying heavily on scouting and intuition.
My biggest regrets are the moments that I let a lack of data override my intuition on what's best for our customers.
The large-phone craze is rocking the world like a hurricane, and LG is no stranger to this trend: within the last year, the Korean manufacturer has launched two big-screened smartphones as Optimus Vus (three if you count the LG Intuition on Verizon) to mediocre fanfare worldwide.
Many who go to the polls are low-information voters who make their minds up close to the finish line, often based not on principled ideology but rather on team spirit or intuition.
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Despite having left Emblaze Mobile, Kupervas said there's no reason for his ex-company to not implement the Else Intuition UX on Android, but neither did he know if it was doing anything with the asset other than lazily waiting for some licensees -- which we highly doubt there would be any takers at this point.
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While my intuition was right on the stock, it comes too late for most investors.
The focus here is on applying the intelligence, intuition, interests and initiative of people in (social) groups, whether inside the organization or beyond it, to improve the way they can work together.
Black-Scholes changed the culture of Wall Street, from a place where people traded based on common sense, experience and intuition, to a place where the computer said yes or no.
Jamie Foxx won an Academy Award for his portrayal of musician Ray Charles, and then went on to release the chart-topping Intuition, his third album.
And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.
One would like to believe that Santa knows what you want -- and whether you've earned it -- based on his compassion, care and superior powers of intuition.
They make the call about whether a truck should be waved through the lane or diverted for secondary inspection, often in a matter of seconds and based on nothing more than a quick look and their practised intuition.
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Whereas traditional product development would involve making product decisions using business intuition and knowledge, Zynga turned decision-making on its head by hypothesis-driven product testing, quick analysis and agile roll-out based on how customers behaved.
Your intuition has to go to work and perform due diligence on that appealing idea.
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On another swap, I learned I had to be better about trusting my intuition.
When we hear about big data "solutions, " they tend to focus on computational approaches -- storage, search and processing -- with human intuition largely absent.
Yet his intuition about the leisure tastes of the budding Thai middle class was dead-on.
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Yet his relentless focus on the dark side of Florida's history can leave the reader demoralized, with the nagging intuition that he has occasionally orange-picked the record.
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