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5 rules that transform outsourcing outcomes

CIO Business Intelligence

It is the product of nearly 20 years of research at the University of Tennessee, beginning with a deep-dive funded by the United States Air Force on outcome-based outsourcing in 2003. For example, a buying organization might want “outcomes,” but the contract spells out dozens or even hundreds of service level agreement metrics instead.

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Humans-in-the-loop forecasting: integrating data science and business planning

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

by THOMAS OLAVSON Thomas leads a team at Google called "Operations Data Science" that helps Google scale its infrastructure capacity optimally. Over the life of the forecast, the data scientist will publish historical accuracy metrics. But due to the long time lag between forecasts and actuals, these metrics alone are insufficient.

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Multiplicity: Succeed Awesomely At Web Analytics 2.0!

Occam's Razor

My first eMetrics summit was June 2003 and as a young inexperienced person new in the field it was a great learning experience (eMetrics in Santa Barbara were the best!). The fact that to make optimal decisions on the web I was going to have to be comfortable with multiple sources of data, all valuable and all necessary to win.