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Humans-in-the-loop forecasting: integrating data science and business planning

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

by THOMAS OLAVSON Thomas leads a team at Google called "Operations Data Science" that helps Google scale its infrastructure capacity optimally. ln this post he describes where and how having “humans in the loop” in forecasting makes sense, and reflects on past failures and successes that have led him to this perspective.

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Building Tax Planning into Enterprise Risk Management Strategies

Jet Global

Tax planning is playing an increasingly important part in corporates’ enterprise resource management (ERM) strategies, driven by the many uncertainties created by political, economic, and pandemic-related trends. Take Responsibility for Risk Oversight. Take Responsibility for Risk Oversight. Foster an Appropriate Risk Mindset.

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Sound Decisions in Dynamic Times – Forecasts and Simulations Support Modern Corporate Management

BI-Survey

Markets and competition today are highly dynamic and complex, and the future is characterized by uncertainty – not least because of COVID-19. This uncertainty is currently at the forefront of everyone‘s minds. A dynamic environment requires flexible decision support and short-term updates of targets and forecasts.

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Sound Decisions in Dynamic Times – Forecasts and Simulations Support Modern Corporate Management

BI-Survey

Markets and competition today are highly dynamic and complex, and the future is characterized by uncertainty – not least because of COVID-19. This uncertainty is currently at the forefront of everyone‘s minds. A dynamic environment requires flexible decision support and short-term updates of targets and forecasts.

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Powering the future: How Gen AI and AI illuminate utility companies

CIO Business Intelligence

While international conflict, economic uncertainty and climate change are affecting businesses of all kinds, energy companies and utilities are also dealing with aging infrastructure, constant cyberattacks, increased regulation and rising customer expectations. Meeting all these requirements places a tremendous burden on energy companies.

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7 Keys to Effective Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting

Jet Global

In most companies, planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes are fairly well-established, but just because you’ve always done things a certain way doesn’t mean you can’t improve them. That, in turn, helps leaders to plan effectively for a range of circumstances, allowing for greater flexibility to accommodate uncertainty.

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Our quest for robust time series forecasting at scale

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

by ERIC TASSONE, FARZAN ROHANI We were part of a team of data scientists in Search Infrastructure at Google that took on the task of developing robust and automatic large-scale time series forecasting for our organization. So it should come as no surprise that Google has compiled and forecast time series for a long time.