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Fast Company's Most Innovative Business People of 2007
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February 15, 2008 | 0 Readers Recommended This

Dietrich and her team of math geeks are changing the way IBM works. In the hands of talented mathematicians, data creates an invaluable advantage. Elaborate algorithms reveal a company's inefficiencies and opportunities--unseen bottlenecks in the supply chain or customers' hidden buying patterns. "It's a great time," Dietrich says, "to be a computational mathematician."
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