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The Very Group adopts a data catalog to better organize and leverage its online retail capabilities

CIO Business Intelligence

When Steve Pimblett joined The Very Group in October 2020 as chief data officer, reporting to the conglomerate’s CIO, his task was to help the enterprise uncover value in its rich data heritage. It launched its first online-only brand, Very, in 2009 and finally abandoned its printed catalogs to go all-in online in 2015.

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Fact-based Decision-making

Peter James Thomas

In our modern architectures, replete with web-services, APIs, cloud-based components and the quasi-instantaneous transmission of new transactions, it is perhaps not surprising that occasionally some data gets lost in translation [5] along the way. Especially for all Business Analytics professionals out there (2009). [7].

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Adapting to Change: Finding Opportunity in Crucible Moments

Alation

As the authors of a Harvard Business Review article, “Roaring Out of Recession” note, three years after the Great Recession of 2007–2009, the most recent period of global economic instability, 9% of companies didn’t simply recover — they flourished, outperforming competitors by at least 10% in sales and profit growth.