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NHL turns to venue metrics data to drive sustainability

CIO Business Intelligence

In October, the league, with partner SAP, launched NHL Venue Metrics, a sustainability platform that teams and their venue partners can use for data collection, validation, and reporting and insights. Sustainability is all about innovation and business optimization. Sustainability is all about continuous business improvement.

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly on Data

Instead of continuing to deploy their attention optimization algorithms for their users’ and suppliers’ benefit, the tech giants began to use them to favor themselves. The most-clicked sponsored products were 17% more expensive and 33% lower ranked according to Amazon’s own quality, price, and popularity optimizing algorithms.

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AI and ML: No Longer the Stuff of Science Fiction

Cloudera

The category “Data for Enterprise AI” awards companies from around the world that have built and deployed use cases for enterprise-scale machine learning and have industrialized AI to automate, secure, and optimize data-driven decision making and/or applications. In 2021, the finalists under this category include the following organizations.

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Prioritizing AI? Don’t shortchange IT fundamentals

CIO Business Intelligence

Introduce gen AI capabilities without thinking about data hygiene, he warns, and people will be disillusioned when they haven’t done the pre work to get it to perform optimally. The same issues were revealed when Microsoft launched Delve, and before that when the FAST integration brought powerful search to SharePoint in 2010.

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An Overview of Sales Analytics in Event Industry

BizAcuity

Sales Analytics began to emerge as the scientific approach to selling in 2010 with sales becoming less about certain methodology or personality and more of a number game. Some businesses in 2003 started using predictive analytics generating an average Return on Investment or ROI of 145% as per the study that was undertaken by IDC.

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CEOs might ponder… is there no IT anymore?

Mark Raskino

We hear about digital efficiency, digital workplace, and digital optimization. By about 2010 or so – digital meant market facing technology, and “IT” meant back office and the internal efficiency use of technology. Our 2019 CEO survey reports will be published to clients in April. Today, everything is “digital”. So far, so good.

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Excellent Analytics Tips #20: Measuring Digital "Brand Strength"

Occam's Razor

Step 4: In the middle of the resulting report you'll see a trend that looks like this: This shows the number of searches for your brand, relative to the total number of searches done on Google over time (for the geographic region and time period you've chosen). Step 3: Click Search. These are just brand queries.