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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly on Data

Not to be confused with the ordinary sense of rent as a charge for temporary use of property, economic rents are the income above a competitive market rate that is collected because of asymmetries in ownership, information, or power. Attention is all you need What is the source of big tech market power? The market was maturing.

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The HP-Autonomy lawsuit: Timeline of an M&A disaster

CIO Business Intelligence

It went on an acquisition spree in the early 2000s, driving up its revenue, before being swallowed itself by Hewlett-Packard in 2011, in a deal that valued it at over $10 billion. May 2011: Autonomy sneaks in one last acquisition, of online backup service Iron Mountain Digital, for $380 million. 19, 2011, and Nov.

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How to Optimize Marketing and Sales Operations

Jedox

This also affects the go-to-market processes in particular for the marketing and sales functions. A company’s web presence, which is usually designed by marketing, is becoming an increasingly important component in the sales process. Where marketing and sales converge. The evolution of marketing data.

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Facebook Advertising / Marketing: Best Metrics, ROI, Business Value

Occam's Razor

This audience is immensely attractive to Brands and Marketers around the world. FBe's recommendation was (paraphrasing a 35 min talk): Don't invent new metrics, use online versions of Reach and GRPs to measure success. Facebook has an incredible audience, 950 million strong and counting. This makes me really sad.)

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The Lean Analytics Cycle: Metrics > Hypothesis > Experiment > Act

Occam's Razor

To win in business you need to follow this process: Metrics > Hypothesis > Experiment > Act. We are far too enamored with data collection and reporting the standard metrics we love because others love them because someone else said they were nice so many years ago. That metric is tied to a KPI.

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Network as a Service (NaaS), Sustainability, and the Circular Economy

CIO Business Intelligence

Additionally, as sustainability requirements increase, including the need to quantify environmental, social and governance (ESG) programs, IT organizations will rely on vendor partners to provide them with key metrics for sustainability and environmental reporting such as power usage, carbon emissions, and end-of-life disposal metrics (e.g.,

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11 Digital Marketing “Crimes Against Humanity”

Occam's Razor

and meet many many many executives and hear about their digital marketing strategies, challenges and outcomes. But maybe the issue is that you (and the Marketers and Leaders. Not spending 15% of your Marketing budget, every month, on experimenting with new techniques / channels / ideas. This post is to solve that problem.

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