Digital-Age Business Skills Defined

M.B.A. Programs Start to Follow Silicon Valley Into the Data Age.  (The New York Times, 12/25/2014)

Digital age business skills

That’s because the degree suggests a person steeped in finance and corporate strategy rather than in the digital-age arts of speed and constant experimentation — and in skills like

• A/B testing:  method of testing for an advertising campaign that involves two different versions of a web page to see which is more effective

• rapid prototyping:  process used to build a physical model from a computer drawing by creating layers of the shape and joining them together.

• data-driven decision making.   Also known as data-driven decision management (DDDM):  an approach to business governance that values decisions that can be backed up with data that can be verified.
  

the bread and butter of Silicon Valley.

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