Comment on Can Google Save Itself From Google? by Derek

I think Management Science is due for an overall makeover - Before Google came along folks said the same about Advertisement. Now it is now a well-established fact that online advertising now involves more rocket science than human touch. Google may or may not reinvent Management Science - but most organizations will do be doing it regularly in 20-30 years from now on. There is so much data lying around - that it would be foolish to ignore it. It is just a fact of life. One simple network analysis of email will give lot of insights into an organization structure. In fact, DARPA funds lot of universities to do the same (their goal is to find terrorists networks ultimately) Human intuition probably may only works well when there isn't enough data; now-a-days computers are better at predicting illness than doctors given a list of symptoms; automatic language translations by Machine Learning outperform those systems where rules are written by linguists; the list goes ON and ON. One more important factor is analyzing data is now so much cheaper; there is open source software and computing power is also cheaper.

Comment on Can Google Save Itself From Google? by Derek

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