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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly on Data

Perhaps a more direct way to say this in the context of economic value creation is that companies such as Amazon and Google and Facebook had developed a set of remarkable advances in networked and data-enabled market coordination. But over time, something went very wrong. I think not.

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Operational Finance in the Age of Covid-19: Time to Change the Basics?

Jet Global

It also decreases the risk of errors by eliminating disjointed, manual processes. Operational, or non-financial, data enables CFOs to look further out and predict future demand for goods and service, manage costs, or reforecast inbound delivery schedules. Tip 2: Improving accounts receivable procedures.

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CFO Panel: Generating Value in a Post-Pandemic Market

Jet Global

He specializes in process reengineering and risk reduction. John Lawrence, Partner & CFO, Wavecrest Growth Partners: Lawrence, a Partner & CFO at Wavecrest since 2017, previously ran a consulting firm and served as CFO for private equity and venture capital firms. This requires access to data that’s real-time.

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7 famous analytics and AI disasters

CIO Business Intelligence

In 2017, The Economist declared that data, rather than oil, had become the world’s most valuable resource. Organizations across every industry have been and continue to invest heavily in data and analytics. But like oil, data and analytics have their dark side. The refrain has been repeated ever since.

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