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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. First, the model must balance risk and reward for both parties. There are two principles for establishing a pricing model.

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Data Modeling 201 for the cloud: designing databases for data warehouses

erwin

I published my first book in 2003 showcasing how I used Ralph’s technique to create a large data warehouse in the Oracle database. Don’t obstruct the optimizer from seeing it’s a star schema. Many database optimizers recognize the star schema and have code to optimize their execution by orders of magnitude.

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PODCAST: COVID19 | Redefining Digital Enterprises – Episode 6: The Impact of COVID-19 on Supply Chain Management

bridgei2i

It is even more essential now that supply chains are empowered with a high standard of data and analytics sophistication to be able to cost-effectively serve the company’s purpose and combat risks at the same time. You know, Chief Risk Officers, for example, will no longer be confined to the credit industry. Anushruti: Perfect.

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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. It provides the occasion for deeper exploration of which inputs that can be influenced and which risks can be proactively managed. Our team does a lot of forecasting.

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What Will Drive Innovation in this Great Reset

Andrew White

Cost optimization and short-term value generating activity will be explored. Many highly leveraged firms will be at risk; debt will be at record levels in public and private so anyone who has cash will be predatory. And there is no time to consult with a specialist. This is not an option. But not all firms will get past phase 2.

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Using Empirical Bayes to approximate posteriors for large "black box" estimators

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

These estimates can be useful to make risk-adjusted decisions and explore-exploit trade-offs, or to find situations where the underlying regression method is particularly good or bad. 3] Bradley Efron, "Robbins, Empirical Bayes, and Microarrays" , Technical Report, 2003. [4]

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