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Give up those Measures and Metrics to Succeed – Really

Andrew White

The period was between 1961 and 2017, when Hong Kong grew from about a quarter as rich as the UK to almost 40%. If bureaucrats start to measure something, it won’t be long before they start to meddle in it. In data and analytics we all know the phrase, ‘you can’t manage what you don’t measure’. For example, GDP was not tracked.

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The change management Informatica needed to overhaul its business model

CIO Business Intelligence

billion business, and every dollar goes through a set of business processes and applications that didn’t exist in 2017. Look at changing metrics and KPIs as a gift. The metrics you use to measure a cloud company are different than those you use to measure an enterprise license and maintenance company.

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The history of ESG: A journey towards sustainable investing

IBM Big Data Hub

It refers to a set of metrics used to measure an organization’s environmental and social impact and has become increasingly important in investment decision-making over the years. In response, asset managers began to develop ESG strategies and metrics to measure the environmental and social impact of their investments.

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly on Data

They published the original Transformer paper (not quite coincidentally called “Attention is All You Need”) in 2017, and released BERT , an open source implementation, in late 2018, but they never went so far as to build and release anything like OpenAI’s GPT line of services.

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Make Your Investment in Analytic Technology Pay Off With Decision Requirements Modeling

Decision Management Solutions

Define the metrics or key performance indicators (KPIs) they want to improve: But analytics cannot magically improve metrics—they can only tell you if your analytic investment was worthwhile. Imagine actually deriving measurable business impact from all the great analytics technologies you’ve invested in.

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Operational Finance in the Age of Covid-19: Time to Change the Basics?

Jet Global

And it’s possible to become lost in the minutiae of the many different metrics available to measure an organisation’s AR capabilities. A 2017 study by FSN found that businesses which made better use of non-financial data were more than twice as likely to be able to forecast beyond the 12-month time horizon than those that didn’t.

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What Choice’s CIO sees in a cloud-native approach to sustainability

CIO Business Intelligence

Heavy investment for us in cloud, though, really started in 2017 when we launched our redesigned, cloud-based, cloud-native central reservation system called ChoiceEdge. And then at the back end of this, how to drive accountability, leveraging the metrics you’re gathering and what goals you’re going to set.