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The New Normal for FP&A: Scenario Planning

Jedox

We are currently operating in an environment with a very high (if not the highest ever) level of VUCA, (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, Ambiguity). The way you mitigate uncertainty is with planning, planning, and more planning. The oil collapse of 2014 is another example of the importance of scenario planning.

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10 Ways Organizations Can Prepare for Changes Brought on by the IoT

Smart Data Collective

Back in 2014, Gordon Hui wrote an article in Harvard Business Review about the ways the Internet of Things changes business models. It brings uncertainty and forces you out of your little bubble. Sure, employees seldom accept change readily and are prone to resist organizational transformations caused by new technological changes.

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Going nuts: California’s largest almond cooperative streamlines its supply chain

CIO Business Intelligence

While customers worried about the uncertainty of orders being filled, customer service representatives were required to navigate through 10 different systems and data sources for answers. Since 2014, though, Blue Diamond had been working with enterprise resource planning (ERP) software leader SAP.

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Explore the Worlds of Startups and Science with AI Experience Worldwide Speakers Alexis Ohanian and Bill Nye

DataRobot

Despite the uncertainty and challenges of the past year, DataRobot is seeing the positive impact that AI and machine learning are having on our world as enterprises accelerate their AI adoption. He returned as executive chairman in 2014 to help lead the turnaround of the now independent company.

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Fitting Bayesian structural time series with the bsts R package

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

Example 1: Nowcasting Scott and Varian (2014, 2015) used structural time series models to show how Google search data can be used to improve short term forecasts ("nowcasts") of economic time series. Figure 1 shows the motivating data set from Scott and Varian (2014), which is also included with the bsts package.

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Towards optimal experimentation in online systems

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

Crucially, it takes into account the uncertainty inherent in our experiments. There is also uncertainty related to our modeling choices — did we select the correct polynomial embedding function $f(x)$, or is the true relationship better described by a different polynomial embedding?

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Perform time series forecasting using Amazon Redshift ML and Amazon Forecast

AWS Big Data

Forecasting acts as a planning tool to help enterprises prepare for the uncertainty that can occur in the future. The data contains measurements of electric power consumption in different households for the year 2014. Prepare the data Refer to the following notebook for the steps needed to create this use case.