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Generative AI sparks family business renaissance: PwC report

CIO Business Intelligence

However, the NextGen business leaders of family businesses showed uncertainty about the present owners’ and decision makers’ ability to fathom the power of digital transformation. Now, 90% of family businesses are open to private equity investment compared to 18% in 2011. However, the investment landscape is changing fast.

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Paul Martin: CIOs don’t retire, they go work on boards

CIO Business Intelligence

Two years of pandemic uncertainty and escalating business risk have sharpened the focus of corporate boards on a technology trend once dismissed as just another IT buzzword. I joined Baxter as CIO in 2011, and in 2016 I was presented with the opportunity to join my first public company board. How did that opportunity come about?

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Cloudera + Hortonworks, from the Edge to AI

Cloudera

In 2008, I co-founded Cloudera with folks from Google, Facebook, and Yahoo to deliver a big data platform built on Hadoop to the enterprise market. Since 2011, our two companies have each innovated to build better products and win more business. They, too, saw the enormous potential for data at scale in the enterprise.

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Why CEOs should test big digital business ideas in tiny countries.

Mark Raskino

The President of Iceland Olafur Ragnar Grimsson explained this phenomenon to me when I had the privilege to interview him in 2011 (Gartner Report: G00212784 ). “So He was talking about something we call the ‘compound uncertainty’ that must be navigated when we want to test and introduce a real breakthrough digital business idea.

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The Lean Analytics Cycle: Metrics > Hypothesis > Experiment > Act

Occam's Razor

Experiments come in all shapes and sizes: A marketing campaign. Try to understand your market. Read up on ways that companies are growing their business, from growth hacking to content marketing, and use that as inspiration. By 2011, the company had 20 full-time photographers on staff. Do it now; we'll wait.

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Fitting Bayesian structural time series with the bsts R package

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

This model has stationary distribution $$mu_infty sim Nleft(0, frac{sigma^2_eta}{1 - rho^2}right),$$ which means that uncertainty grows to a finite asymptote, rather than infinity, in the distant future. Figure 7: Daily closing values for the S&P 500 stock market index. Which market indicators best forecast recessions ?

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Fact-based Decision-making

Peter James Thomas

It is entirely feasible that some market event occurs this year ( for example the entrance or exit of a competitor, or the launch of a new competitor product) which would render prior year figures a poor guide. See in particular my trilogy: Using historical data to justify BI investments – Part I (2011). This can be problematic.

Metrics 49