CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 14, 2022

In How to Measure Anything , Douglas Hubbard offers an alternative definition of “measurement” to the Oxford English Dictionary’s “the size, length, or amount of something.” Hubbard defines measurement as: “A quantitatively expressed reduction of uncertainty based on one or more observations.”.

Uncertainty 105

Uncertainty Measurement Cost-Benefit Optimization 105

Sisense

MARCH 26, 2020

From daily operations and managing inventory to building virtual events to replace in-person ones, there are new threats to maintaining business continuity. To effectively identify what measures need to be taken, analytics can help to summarize and predict how companies should evolve to survive in a challenging environment.

Management 91

Management Cost-Benefit Uncertainty Digital Transformation 91

Sisense

MARCH 24, 2020

One area they refused to cut, however, was their business intelligence program. BA claimed that a continued investment in analytics during the crisis was a critical factor to streamlining marketing activities and thwarting fraudulent bookings when their business was especially fragile.

Analytics 94

Analytics Sales Forecasting Business Intelligence 94

Jet Global

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Modern business intelligence (BI) tools can result in inefficiencies too. And it’s possible to become lost in the minutiae of the many different metrics available to measure an organisation’s AR capabilities. Analysing the necessary data is a massive undertaking, and one that can draw finance professionals away from other tasks.

Finance 98

Finance Reporting Forecasting Metrics 98

DataKitchen

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The uncertainty of not knowing where data issues will crop up next and the tiresome game of ‘who’s to blame’ when pinpointing the failure. Data engineers ensure that all the ingested, processed, and transformed data culminates in actionable, reliable products—be it a predictive model, a dashboard, or a data export.

Testing 176

Testing Data Quality Predictive Modeling Metrics 176

Peter James Thomas

AUGUST 12, 2018

This piece was prompted by both Olaf’s question and a recent article by my friend Neil Raden on his Silicon Angle blog, Performance management: Can you really manage what you measure? It is hard to account for such tweaking in measurement systems. Some relate to inherent issues with what is being measured.

Metrics 49

Metrics Statistics Data Quality Measurement 49

Sisense

DECEMBER 13, 2021

To thrive in the age of accelerated digital, modern financial institutions need access to actionable business intelligence. Without leveraging this information, businesses can easily fall into the same patterns that can stunt growth–failing to attract new customers and even leaving themselves open to security risks.

Data-driven 59

Data-driven IT Business Intelligence Cost-Benefit 59