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

Occam's Razor

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.

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The HP-Autonomy lawsuit: Timeline of an M&A disaster

CIO Business Intelligence

It went on an acquisition spree in the early 2000s, driving up its revenue, before being swallowed itself by Hewlett-Packard in 2011, in a deal that valued it at over $10 billion. May 2011: Autonomy sneaks in one last acquisition, of online backup service Iron Mountain Digital, for $380 million. 19, 2011, and Nov.

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Running Code and Failing Models

DataRobot

Their code attempted to create a validation test set based on a prediction point of November 1, 2011. The code below might at first look like it separates data before and after November 1, 2011, but there’s a subtle mistake that includes future dates. and Google benchmarks for this model use the accuracy metric. The fast.ai

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5-Star Linked Open Elections Data 

Ontotext

For these reasons, publishing the data related to elections is obligatory for all EU member states under Directive 2003/98/EC on the re-use of public sector information and the Bulgarian Central Elections Committee (CEC) has released a complete export of every election database since 2011.

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What is ITIL? Your guide to the IT Infrastructure Library

CIO Business Intelligence

In 2011, another update — dubbed ITIL 2011 — was published under the Cabinet Office. The five volumes remained, and ITIL 2007 and ITIL 2011 remained similar. ITIL v3 was released in 2011, under the Cabinet Office, bringing updates to the 2007 version published under OGC. How does ITIL reduce costs?

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Network as a Service (NaaS), Sustainability, and the Circular Economy

CIO Business Intelligence

Additionally, as sustainability requirements increase, including the need to quantify environmental, social and governance (ESG) programs, IT organizations will rely on vendor partners to provide them with key metrics for sustainability and environmental reporting such as power usage, carbon emissions, and end-of-life disposal metrics (e.g.,

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How to Optimize Marketing and Sales Operations

Jedox

Typical metrics such as impressions, unique website visitors, raw and qualified leads, sales growth, sales target and target achievement, customer acquisition costs, customer churn rate, sales cycle length are among the ever-growing list of marketing metrics becoming commonly used. The evolution of marketing data.

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