Occam's Razor

APRIL 8, 2013

To win in business you need to follow this process: Metrics > Hypothesis > Experiment > Act. We are far too enamored with data collection and reporting the standard metrics we love because others love them because someone else said they were nice so many years ago. That metric is tied to a KPI.

Metrics 156

Metrics KPI Analytics Key Performance Indicator 156

O'Reilly on Data

MARCH 31, 2020

Machine learning adds uncertainty. Underneath this uncertainty lies further uncertainty in the development process itself. There are strategies for dealing with all of this uncertainty–starting with the proverb from the early days of Agile: “ do the simplest thing that could possibly work.”

Management 332

Management Machine Learning Experimentation Metrics 332

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 27, 2023

At this time of dynamic business and market changes, uncertainty, and quickly evolving consumption models for IT infrastructure, every IT executive understands the benefits and necessity of network agility. We’ve seen how it can gather and organize telemetry data collected from all parts of a company’s network.

Management 98

Management Internet of Things Cost-Benefit Uncertainty 98

Jet Global

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Despite the fact that massive amounts of information lives inside this solution, PeopleSoft reporting is a cumbersome process, mostly because the data are poorly integrated. Members of the finance or IT teams have to go hunting through multiple data sources, identifying and integrating the metrics they need to build reports.

Reporting 75

Reporting Uncertainty Metrics Finance 75

Jet Global

JANUARY 22, 2020

Much of the financial reporting process, including data collection, integration, analysis, and visualization, can now run on autopilot. They’ve identified their most important performance metrics and report on those at the exclusion of all others. All of this is possible thanks to breakthroughs in automation.

Reporting 78

Reporting Snapshot Data-driven Uncertainty 78

Darkhorse

MARCH 31, 2015

Add to these all of the decisions that they could be making (but aren’t) because of uncertainty or laziness. Step 3: Scope the Projects In looking at what remains, you can start to estimate the difficulty or uncertainty associated with finding a solution. Step 1: The Brain Storm We start at the end: the decision.

Uncertainty 45

Uncertainty Data-driven Consulting Metrics 45

IBM Big Data Hub

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Government executives face several uncertainties as they embark on their journeys of modernization. A pain point tracker (a repository of business, human-centered design and technology issues that inhibit users’ ability to execute critical tasks) captures themes that arise during the data collection process.

Data-driven 91

Data-driven IT Measurement Cost-Benefit 91