David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

MAY 20, 2025

Integrated business planning (IBP) is a term I coined back in 2007 to describe a rapid, collaborative, high-participation process that brings together operational and financial planning using a planning software platform to connect the disparate planning activities that happen in an enterprise.

Forecasting 130

Forecasting Software Finance Uncertainty 130

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

APRIL 19, 2021

To explain, let’s borrow a quote from Nate Silver’s The Signal and the Noise : One of the most important tests of a forecast — I would argue that it is the single most important one — is called calibration. If, over the long run, it really did rain about 40 percent of the time, that means your forecasts were well calibrated.

Modeling 122

Modeling IT Metrics Testing 122

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Your digital performance dashboard has 16 metrics along 9 dimensions, and you know that the font-size 6 text and sparkline sized charts make them incomprehensible. Focus only on KPIs, eliminate metrics. Here are the definitions you'll find in my books: Metric : A metric is a number. Time on Page is a metric.

Strategy 266

Strategy Metrics KPI Dashboards 266

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

But each keyword gets "credit" for other metrics. The best option is to hire a statistician with experience in data modeling and forecasting. Brian Krick: Best way to measure and communicate "available demand" from available channels (social, search, display) for forecast modeling. Please see the advice above.

Analytics 94

Analytics Measurement Metrics Predictive Analytics 94

Domino Data Lab

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

I don’t have a metric to estimate the time it takes to change company culture because that’s what we call a very small dataset. Without delving into economic forecast techniques such as J curves, GPTs, etc., Frédéric Kaplan, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer (2007). Large-Scale Study of Curiosity-Driven Learning”. Yuri Burda, et al.

Data Science 66

Data Science Experimentation Machine Learning Data-driven 66

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

JANUARY 9, 2025

In many organizations, FP&A professionals have less time for analysis because the mechanical process of pulling together and collating data takes up so much time that little remains for using data to spot trends, find opportunities and isolate issues to create better-informed forecasts, plans and decisions.

Finance 130

Finance Forecasting Data Warehouse Interactive 130