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The history of ESG: A journey towards sustainable investing

IBM Big Data Hub

But while the term ESG was first coined in 2004 by the United Nations Global Compact, the concept has been around for much longer. 1 Slowly but surely, institutional investors started to recognize that companies could potentially improve financial performance and risk management by focusing on ESG issues like greenhouse gas emissions.

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How Accenture’s solution erases the blind spots of services spend management

CIO Business Intelligence

Inadequate services spend visibility also increased exposure to local legal and regulatory risks. Yet, Accenture had a dependable, long-term partner in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software pioneer SAP, first adopting the company’s solutions in 2004. Improvements were needed and the deadline was tight.

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What is ArchiMate?

erwin

Originally based on IEEE 1471 , ArchiMate was developed in the Netherlands as a joint venture between private industry and the Dutch Government between 2002 and 2004. It’s tried and tested from an enterprise perspective and an in-demand certification for enterprise architects, so there are relatively low risks associated with adopting it.

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Schrodinger’s Automation in AI and the Automation Bias

Jen Stirrup

Automation and the history of the 'blame game' Technology is often touted as the solution to automating and correcting errors in human behaviour, reducing risk. In the UK, one recent example is the Post Office Horizon system was poorly implemented and badly tested. One example was the Piper Alpha disaster which occurred in 1988.

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Sony Pictures Entertainment’s Acclaimed Sequel to its 2004 ERP Implementation

CIO Business Intelligence

When a large organization depends on a highly customized ERP system, any change invites a host of potential perils from go-live failures to endless testing cycles. The process is risky enough when upgrading a single legacy ERP – with two , the risks more than double.

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Sony Pictures Entertainment’s Acclaimed Sequel to its 2004 ERP Implementation

CIO Business Intelligence

When a large organization depends on a highly customized ERP system, any change invites a host of potential perils from go-live failures to endless testing cycles. The process is risky enough when upgrading a single legacy ERP – with two , the risks more than double.

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Unintentional data

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

Yet when we use these tools to explore data and look for anomalies or interesting features, we are implicitly formulating and testing hypotheses after we have observed the outcomes. We must correct for multiple hypothesis tests. In addition to the issues above, does the conclusion pass the smell test?