O'Reilly on Data

JULY 28, 2020

These measures are commonly referred to as guardrail metrics , and they ensure that the product analytics aren’t giving decision-makers the wrong signal about what’s actually important to the business. When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure ( Goodhart’s Law ). Any metric can and will be abused.

Marketing 362

Marketing Experimentation Metrics Testing 362

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 23, 2022

To address this requirement and ensure seamless connectivity, organizations are rapidly adopting consumption-driven NaaS models to balance the cost of their network growth with the digital experience of their stakeholders. Obtaining more insight into hidden costs (e.g.,

Cost-Benefit 102

Cost-Benefit Business Objectives ROI Risk 102

IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Determine business objectives Define specific measurable, achievable, relevant and timely (SMART) objectives for the procurement function. These objectives should directly support the overarching business goals and provide a clear framework for the procurement strategy.

Strategy 72

Strategy Cost-Benefit Key Performance Indicator Consulting 72

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 23, 2023

According to the MIT Technology Review Insights Survey, an enterprise data strategy supports vital business objectives including expanding sales, improving operational efficiency, and reducing time to market. The problem is today, just 13% of organizations excel at delivering on their data strategy.

Data Strategy 109

Data Strategy Strategy Visualization Consulting 109

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Failure to align technology capabilities with business goals can result in a wasted investment in technology that doesn’t support business objectives. Focus on customer experience: Customer experience should be at the center of any digital transformation initiative. Digital Transformation, IT Leadership, IT Strategy

Digital Transformation 143

Digital Transformation Cost-Benefit Experimentation Measurement 143

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 16, 2022

To that end, his technology organization is hyper-focused on measuring and reporting on its performance. Clarity in measuring promise-and-delivery gaps is key,” he says. If you don’t measure it, it doesn’t matter,” says Mead of SPR Consulting. It’s important to think carefully about what we measure, and what we don’t measure.

Management 142

Management Measurement Metrics Consulting 142

Smarten

JANUARY 18, 2023

When we consider the implementation of a Citizen Data Scientist initiative, we typically do so to improve the business and the effectiveness of its team members. The business team is the heart and soul of the organization, carrying goals and objectives forward and holding the tools of business in their hands.

Key Performance Indicator 52

Key Performance Indicator Prescriptive Analytics Business Objectives Measurement 52

Smarten

MAY 29, 2023

The concept of Citizen Data Scientist has been around a while now but some businesses still don’t understand the benefits and value this approach can provide. Affordable plans with flexible pricing to allow the enterprise to provide this functionality to all business users – you can get started for less than $10/month.

Prescriptive Analytics 52

Prescriptive Analytics Predictive Modeling Digital Transformation Business Objectives 52

IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 25, 2024

Workers’ increasing usage of smart devices and apps such as ChatGPT or other black box public models, without proper approval, has become a persistent issue and doesn’t include the correct change management to inform workers about the associated risks.

Strategy 104

Strategy Risk Cost-Benefit Business Objectives 104

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 5, 2023

Regardless of whether they take a ‘build on’ or ‘create anew’ approach, CIOs should consider three key actions to meet their sustainability and broader business objectives. In other cases, they’re innovating and creating better solutions by identifying, building, and scaling those technologies to be more sustainable.

Software 102

Software Measurement Visualization Business Objectives 102

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Once changes are implemented, it’s crucial to loop back, measure against the anticipated improvement, and continually review data.” He notes that developing a services portfolio to leverage various cloud services can give IT a flexible operating model. “By Have a service delivery model that’s predictable and consistent.”

IT 138

IT Testing Metrics Optimization 138

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 29, 2022

For years, businesses have focused on identifying and wrangling credible valuable data sources. Over time, almost anything will be measurable, depending upon the attitude and consent of consumers and regulators. This is resulting in an overabundance of data. Attitudes towards AI will go from rejection to appreciation.

Predictive Analytics 112

Predictive Analytics Analytics Business Objectives Data-driven 112

Rocket-Powered Data Science

JULY 21, 2023

Organizations are able to monitor integrity, quality drift, performance trends, real-time demand, SLA (service level agreement) compliance metrics, and anomalous behaviors (in devices, applications, and networks) to provide timely alerting, early warnings, and other confidence measures. I call that “digital resilience for the win!

Machine Learning 189

Machine Learning Metrics Reporting Internet of Things 189

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Digital transformation initiatives are often the organization’s big bets to change the business and operating model. Getting drunk on metrics: “Sometimes we get overly zealous about our metrics, have too many of them, and try to measure too many unmeasurable things,” said Jim Highsmith, co-author of the Agile Manifesto.

Digital Transformation 131

Digital Transformation Uncertainty Metrics Business Objectives 131

IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Cloud computing continues to grow in popularity, and its scalability, functionality, cost-effectiveness and other potential benefits have helped transform traditional business models and update legacy systems, creating opportunities for various organizations. Ensure that network connections are appropriate for the task at hand.

Management 70

Management Cost-Benefit Strategy Risk 70

FineReport

APRIL 9, 2024

Evolving BI Tools in 2024 Significance of Business Intelligence In 2024, the role of business intelligence software tools is more crucial than ever, with businesses increasingly relying on data analysis for informed decision-making.

Business Intelligence 52

Business Intelligence Software Data-driven Predictive Modeling 52

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 12, 2023

The framework states that not only should governance strategies remain open and flexible, but they should also be based on conceptual models and aligned to major standards and regulations. Each objective is described including its purpose, how it connects with the enterprise, and how it aligns goals.

Risk Management 78

Risk Management Strategy Digital Transformation Enterprise 78

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Create innovation teams IT departments have moved beyond their old shared services model and are now working closely with business lines. As such, budget allocations for IT operations are becoming a smaller percentage of overall IT spending, while funds for business-driven IT innovation have gone up.

IT 136

IT Consulting Scorecard Key Performance Indicator 136

bridgei2i

JUNE 23, 2021

It allows the company to reduce the time taken to implement AI models and to prepare a dataset to train and feed it into the AI system. An AI consultant can provide adequate support to companies to manage the data pipeline for the AI models. The accuracy of input data helps to maintain the output quality. Identify AI Use-Cases.

Consulting 52

Consulting Key Performance Indicator Business Objectives Data Strategy 52

Alation

MARCH 14, 2023

Gartner describes it as ‘ a highly dynamic process employed to support the acquisition, organisation, analysis, and delivery of data in support of business objectives ’. Govern Data governance models should be flexible and dynamic while proactively addressing risk management and compliance with local and global regulations.

Data Strategy 52

Data Strategy Strategy Metadata Data Quality 52

IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 5, 2023

Build data modeling lineage to perform root cause analysis of data quality issues. Outlining business objectives you want your data to help you accomplish. Decide on the changes that will optimize your data for achieving your business objectives. Perform data quality monitoring based on pre-configured rules.

Data Quality 52

Data Quality Data Architecture Strategy Data Lake 52

IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 5, 2023

Understand and leverage cloud pricing models Cloud providers offer a range of different pricing models and service levels that you can use to help match resources and costs with application needs, availability requirements and business value. Some compare your cloud costs with what it would cost to build your own server room.

Optimization 70

Optimization Forecasting ROI Metrics 70

AWS Big Data

MARCH 7, 2023

It covers how to use a conceptual, logical architecture for some of the most popular gaming industry use cases like event analysis, in-game purchase recommendations, measuring player satisfaction, telemetry data analysis, and more. It helps you build, train, and deploy models consuming the data from repositories in the data hub.

Analytics 70

Analytics Data Warehouse Data Lake Metadata 70

Dataiku

APRIL 22, 2022

It’s no secret that training AI models is an energy-intensive and large dataset-dependent endeavor and, to corroborate this, researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst performed a lifecycle assessment on large, widely accepted AI models trained on the vast datasets needed to achieve accuracy.

Experimentation 59

Experimentation Modeling Business Objectives Manufacturing 59

IBM Big Data Hub

JUNE 23, 2023

Though AI adoption may seem daunting, the flexibility and scalability of emerging foundational models will most certainly accelerate AI adoption as enterprises are empowered to put AI to work at the strategic core of F&A processes. What is generative AI, what are foundation models, and why do they matter? Pilot the technology.

Finance 64

Finance Reporting Cost-Benefit Modeling 64

FineReport

JULY 26, 2021

A business intelligence strategy is a framework that enables enterprises to use right BI tools to analyze the right data and then report to the right people to aid making right decisions. Through the process, businesses will measure their performance, seek out incomparable competitive advantages and dig out needs of customers.

Business Intelligence 52

Business Intelligence Strategy Cost-Benefit Data-driven 52

FineReport

JULY 26, 2021

A business intelligence strategy is a framework that enables enterprises to use right BI tools to analyze the right data and then report to the right people to aid making right decisions. Through the process, businesses will measure their performance, seek out incomparable competitive advantages and dig out needs of customers.

Business Intelligence 52

Business Intelligence Strategy Cost-Benefit Data-driven 52

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 28, 2023

This disciplined approach enables an organization to align its governance, risk, and compliance endeavors to its strategic goals, business objectives, and the technology that enables its operations. A model for optimizing development processes Compliance, IT Governance, IT Leadership GRC is overarching.

Risk 103

Risk Risk Management Strategy Enterprise 103

Paul Blogs on BI

MARCH 25, 2020

We are really missing data and so the metrics are incomplete and, as such, we should ask ourselves the question: “Are we measuring the right things?”. I have always believed that Business Intelligence is only 50% about analyzing the data and that the other 50% is the human action taken as a result of that analysis. Stay healthy.

Business Intelligence 51

Business Intelligence Measurement Metrics Cost-Benefit 51

Andrew White

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Only 3 years ago (see Data and Analytics Strategies Need More-Concrete Metrics of Success ) where we reviewed all the data strategies we had seen in the previous couple of years and less than 15% of them had concrete measurable outcomes. That was Business Objects.

Strategy 56

Strategy Analytics Data-driven Data Strategy 56

Jet Global

MARCH 5, 2019

AI, colloquially, is used to refer to a number of computer-powered business decision drivers, including automation (not AI), data modeling (not AI), and reporting and analytics (also not AI). But are those tools powered by artificial intelligence?

Business Intelligence 75

Business Intelligence OLAP Visualization Reporting 75

AWS Big Data

MARCH 26, 2024

Unified customer profile Graph databases excel in modeling customer interactions and relationships, offering a comprehensive view of the customer journey. You can use the same capabilities to serve financial reporting, measure operational performance, or even monetize data assets.

Data Strategy 67

Data Strategy Strategy Data Warehouse Prescriptive Analytics 67

CDW Research Hub

JUNE 10, 2021

Measuring security effectiveness. The right choice for your organization is the one that aligns with your business objectives to help you make security decisions in a fast-paced industry. Model Alignment & Implementation. Augmenting staff resources and skills. Protecting critical data assets. Discovery Workshops.

Enterprise 52

Enterprise Consulting Risk Business Objectives 52

CDW Research Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2020

The rush of demand for remote access that required security measures be fast-tracked has slowed, but remote access is now the new normal. Layering adaptive access onto your IAM approach can help move your identity policies closer to a zero-trust model. Many of the workers who left the office won’t be moving back.

Behavioral Analytics 52

Behavioral Analytics Business Objectives Strategy Consulting 52

FineReport

APRIL 26, 2023

For example, a computer manufacturing company could develop new models or add features to products that are in high demand. Time Saving : Big data tools and technologies can collect and analyze data from multiple sources in real-time, enabling businesses to make quick decisions based on insights. Top 10 Big Data Tools 1.

Big Data 52

Big Data Data Analytics Analytics Cost-Benefit 52

Paul Blogs on BI

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

PowerBI does not handle large data sets well (please read Kimball books if you plan on using this tool, you’ll need to learn how to model, otherwise performance is DREADFUL for anything with rows over 10k or so.) It is not easily scalable without massive investments.

Dashboards 52

Dashboards Consulting Reporting Measurement 52

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 5, 2023

Betzig sees this in legacy industries like healthcare or manufacturing that are harnessing digital technologies to evolve beyond their core businesses. They’re transforming their whole business model,” he says. In such cases, strategy formulation and product managementskillstake center stage.

Digital Transformation 144

Digital Transformation Manufacturing Strategy Management 144