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The history of ESG: A journey towards sustainable investing

IBM Big Data Hub

It refers to a set of metrics used to measure an organization’s environmental and social impact and has become increasingly important in investment decision-making over the years. However, it wasn’t until the 1990s that ESG considerations started to appear in mainstream investment strategies. In 1995, the U.S

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The change management Informatica needed to overhaul its business model

CIO Business Intelligence

When we were taken private in 2015, we were a traditional software vendor, but the market was starting to embrace the cloud. Then at the other end, we did a fantastic job involving the sales operations, finance, and marketing teams in the testing and design, and we did a great job training people. Take sales territories for example.

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The 2015 Digital Marketing Rule Book. Change or Perish.

Occam's Razor

A huge part of the last few years for me have been about bringing more data, better strategies, more powerful tools, ever more impactful keynotes to people around the world. Most companies are astonishingly blasé about data and possibilities of measurement. " Sad, unimaginative measurements of their sad, unimaginative campaigns.

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Towards optimal experimentation in online systems

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

the weight given to Likes in our video recommendation algorithm) while $Y$ is a vector of outcome measures such as different metrics of user experience (e.g., Taking measurements at parameter settings further from control parameter settings leads to a lower variance estimate of the slope of the line relating the metric to the parameter.

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Drug Discovery Needs AI To Discover More Treatments

Smart Data Collective

Phase 0 is the first to involve human testing. Phase I involves dialing-in the proper dosage and further testing in a larger patient pool. In a report on the failure rates of drug discovery efforts between 2013 and 2015, Richard K. The 15% failure rate of new drugs due to incompatible company strategies doesn’t have to continue.

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Top 10 Management Reporting Best Practices To Create Effective Reports

datapine

As Tyrone Cotie, treasurer of Clearwater Seafoods says in 2015 Benchmarking the Accounting & Finance Function report , “…no matter how quickly you compile and release historical financial statements, you never make a decision from them. You can compare it to your competitors to focus or realign your strategy. They’re also slow.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

It launched its first online-only brand, Very, in 2009 and finally abandoned its printed catalogs to go all-in online in 2015. It’ being everything from how they collect and measure data, to how they understand it and their own glossary. In those situations, he says, you need to tell yourself: “Get back to your strategy.

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