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# Capital One

**What it is.** A bank cited as a **1990s-era** example of rewiring an entire organization around data. Capital One **combined marketing, risk, and IT teams** to run **thousands of micro-experiments a year** — the famous 'balance transfer' teaser-rate tests among them — creating a continuous feedback loop competitors lacked.

**Role in the source.** The template for [[action-redesign-org-chart|redesigning the org chart around an AI-first vision]] and for the article's emphasis on rapid feedback loops between insight and market action. Read alongside [[entity-harrahs-entertainment|Harrah's]] as the two historical proofs that organizational redesign — not the tool alone — is the source of durable advantage.


## Related across articles
- [[entity-capital-one-d18]]