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Living Post Uncertainty: How Changes Today Will Propel Future Generations

Sisense

Through understanding past crises and recent data in the world around us, we want to help everyday people understand how their choices will lead to a better outcome, dispel uncertainty and use data to chart, draw, and paint a better future. How we respond will certainly color how we look back on this crisis. Living in a world in flux.

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Customer service, especially field service, helps companies outperform competitors and drive growth

CIO Business Intelligence

In economic uncertainty, it’s natural for executives to explore where to reduce spending, trim the fat , so to speak, and cut enterprising investments as a matter of caution. But this thinking is also counter-productive for all the reasons that make uncertainty so predictable. There’s much to be done.

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Top Five Financial KPIs for the Construction Industry

Jet Global

At the start of 2020, construction was projected to grow at 4.5 Now that every industry is facing a prolonged period of uncertainty, having access to accurate, up-to-date information is more critical than ever. Essentially a measure of your monthly spending, this metric reveals whether you can keep the doors open next month.

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

Jet Global

Invariably, these activities have seen added stress in 2020. And it’s possible to become lost in the minutiae of the many different metrics available to measure an organisation’s AR capabilities. However, FSN’s 2020 study , showed that reporting against operational data is often overlooked in many organisations.

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Moving up the FP&A Maturity Curve: A Podcast

Jedox

As businesses around the world look to move past the uncertainty and unprecedented change of 2020 and toward a fresh start in 2021, the discussion around FP&A maturity has been renewed. A: Rather than just a set of specific metrics, it is often more about how they organize themselves.

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Measuring Validity and Reliability of Human Ratings

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

Once we’ve answered that, we will then define and use metrics to understand the quality of human-labeled data, along with a measurement framework that we call Cross-replication Reliability or xRR. We will follow the example of Janson and Olsson , and start from this generalized definition of the metric, which they call iota.

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How to Increase Financial Visibility When Business is Invisible

Jet Global

The business oracles at Gartner recently released a list of nine traits necessary for CFOs to preserve performance throughout periods of crisis and uncertainty. When planning new investments, looking for costs to cut , or adjusting 2020 plans, CFOs must possess the very best information available into all aspects of financial performance.