David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

JANUARY 15, 2025

ISG Research asserts that by 2027, one-third of enterprises will incorporate comprehensive external measures to enable ML to support AI and predictive analytics and achieve more consistently performative planning models. At the end of the season, the vendor brings in a consultant to advise on pricing for the coming year.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Consulting firm McKinsey Digital notes that many organizations fall short of their digital and AI transformation goals due to process complexity rather than technical complexity. Invest in core functions that perform data curation such as modeling important relationships, cleansing raw data, and curating key dimensions and measures.

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O'Reilly on Data

MARCH 25, 2025

How will you measure success? So now we have a user persona, several scenarios, and a way to measure success. Business value : Align outputs with business metrics and optimize workflows to achieve measurable ROI. Every AI system feature is an experimentyou just might not be measuring it yet. and immediately start on 1.1.

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DataKitchen

APRIL 13, 2021

DataOps requires that teams measure their analytic processes in order to see how they are improving over time. Service and Consulting Organizations with some DataOps experience. There are a growing number of service and consulting organizations developing expertise in DataOps. Wipro – Data, analytics, and AI consulting.

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datapine

MAY 28, 2019

The essential element in this step is to be able to answer in what way your company or organization makes business decisions, and how the quality of these decisions is measured. If you’re confronting setbacks, it might be useful to engage with additional business intelligence consulting to be on the safe side.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 21, 2025

These concerns emphasize the need to carefully balance the costs of GenAI against its potential benefits, a challenge closely tied to measuring ROI. Prioritize high-impact use cases: Identify projects with measurable benefits that can give quick wins.

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O'Reilly on Data

OCTOBER 22, 2020

We do so out of genuine curiosity as well as professional necessity: Q is an ML/AI consultant, Chris is a product manager in the AI space, and Shane is an attorney. The opinions presented here are personal, do not reflect the view of our employers, and are not professional product, consulting, or legal advice. A lot of questions.

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DataKitchen

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Each of these improvements can be measured and iterated upon. . Stakeholders have hired consultants or shadow teams to do data work. Try measuring your errors per week. Measure how fast teams can respond to errors and requests. The data team takes too long to deliver analytics. Be Grateful for Negative Feedback.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Managers tend to incentivize activity metrics and measure inputs versus outputs,” she adds. Steve Ross, director of cybersecurity for the Americas at S-RM Intelligence and Risk Consulting, says gen AI can reduce a day’s worth of research to a single hour, but not without a catch. “It

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IT Consulting ROI Cost-Benefit 141

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

This makes it impossible to identify any correlations, explains Viole Kastrati, Senior Consultant SAP BI & Analytics at Nagarro. Solid reporting provides transparent, consistent and combined HR metrics essential for strategic planning, risk management and the management of HR measures.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 21, 2025

As a secondary measure, we are now evaluating a few deepfake detection tools that can be integrated into our business productivity apps, in particular for Zoom or Teams, to continuously detect deepfakes.

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AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 5, 2023

HR&A Advisors —a multi-disciplinary consultancy with extensive work in the broadband and digital equity space is helping its state, county, and municipal clients deliver affordable internet access by analyzing locally specific digital inclusion needs and building tailored digital equity plans.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 16, 2022

Leaders tend to focus on the vision of the future state, and project teams tend to focus on sharing their new great idea,” says Matt Mead, CTO at SPR Consulting. To that end, his technology organization is hyper-focused on measuring and reporting on its performance. Clarity in measuring promise-and-delivery gaps is key,” he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

BCCs heavy reliance on Oracle and external consultants became a double-edged sword. Cultural transformation should precede technical transformation, while vendor relationships require structured communication frameworks and clear accountability measures. Change management deserves elevation to a primary project workstream.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 27, 2024

More workloads in the cloud In addition, many companies are moving larger and more complex workloads to the cloud, says Mayank Bhargava, vice president and cloud modernization practice leader at CGI, a business and IT consulting firm. “As Finding wasted resources Other companies are also noticing price increases.

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datapine

JANUARY 24, 2021

Once you have your data analytics questions, you need to have some standard KPIs that you can use to measure them. OK – so far, you’ve picked out some data analysis questions, and you’ve found KPIs to measure them. There are basically 4 types of scales: *Statistics Level Measurement Table*. Did the best according to what?

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O'Reilly on Data

MARCH 20, 2019

And at many companies, many different employees, consultants, and contractors have just that—and with little oversight. Residual analysis: Look for strange, prominent patterns in the residuals of your model predictions, especially for employees, consultants, or contractors.

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Smart Data Collective

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The following elucidates the same: l Improved Protective Measures. Also, IoT consulting services might help companies reach their full potential. These IoT consultants assist firms in understanding IoT technology and developing a plan to improve operations and products. Take Away.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 4, 2025

It outlines strategies to ensure operations continue, minimize disruption, and drive preventative measures and contingency plans. Daniel Saroff is group vice president of consulting and research at IDC, where he is a senior practitioner in the end-user consulting practice.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

IT leaders are drowning in metrics, with many finding themselves up to their KPIs in a seemingly bottomless pool of measurement tools. Still, when all is said and done, some key metrics stand out above the rest for accurately measuring IT success. There are a number of ways to measure value. Here they are.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 25, 2025

Companies should therefore already be taking concrete steps to implement the EU AI Act and the EU Data Act, explains Daniel Andernach , Associated Partner at MHP , an international management and IT consultancy. In this context, clear responsibilities lie primarily with IT, legal, compliance and data protection departments.

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datapine

MAY 21, 2019

Also, limited resources make looking for qualified professionals such as data science experts, IT infrastructure professionals and consulting analysts impractical and worrisome. Consult with key stakeholders, including IT, finance, marketing, sales, and operations. 4) Businesses aren’t measuring the right indicators.

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DataKitchen

JANUARY 3, 2022

Many large enterprises allow consultants and employees to keep tribal knowledge about the data architecture in their heads. and integrating them into a shared system: inserting nuggets into pipelines, creating tests, running the data factory, automating deployments, working across people/teams, measuring success and enabling self-service.

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datapine

APRIL 23, 2019

In today’s business world, competition is fierce across all industries and sectors, which means that to survive and thrive, working with measurable online data analysis and performance metrics is essential. As the saying goes: what gets measured can be improved. These metrics measure the success of your customer-centric operations.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 5, 2025

AI enables operations personnel to consult an intelligent assistant that responds to inquiries by not only providing accurate answers but also referencing the exact asset documentation where the information is sourced. AI-driven asset information management has the potential to generate even greater results.

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datapine

MAY 2, 2023

According to studies, 92% of data leaders say their businesses saw measurable value from their data and analytics investments. It’s also possible to track and measure vehicle usage over specific timeframes to make informed decisions on when you will need to carry out routine maintenance.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 25, 2023

In the second part of our deep dive into Muddled Libra’s tactics, Threat Vector welcomes Stephanie Regan, a senior consultant with Unit 42 with a law enforcement background. As threats evolve and share resources in the ransomware market, companies must stay ahead by adapting and enhancing their security measures.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Cybersecurity experts at Verizon Consulting Services draw on hands-on experience in solving payment card security challenges dating back to the formation of the PCI security regulation in 2002. PCI DSS compliance is a robust defense that significantly mitigates the risks involved with all three.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

I become downright feral when academics and consultants who have never walked a step in the shoes of digital practitioners question whether IT matters. We need to fix how IT value is measured Most organizations are pretty good at measuring how much is being spent on IT — aka, the inputs. Vince Kellen, Ph.D.,

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Cost-Benefit Measurement Advertising Statistics 128

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Measure everything Looking for ROI too soon is often a product of poor planning, says Rowan Curran, an AI and data science analyst at Forrester. Organizations rolling out AI tools first need to set reasonable expectations and establish key metrics to measure the value of the deployment , he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 9, 2024

According to Ikea, Billie has handled over 47% of customer inquiries during the past two years, freeing up nearly 10,000 call center workers to gain new skills, including those of interior design advisors to help provide consultations for customers.

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Metrics Measurement Consulting Technology 139

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 30, 2024

It turns out that the research this widely held sic “fact” is based on was limited to violinists, didn’t measure their skill, and didn’t even mention 10,000 hours. The digital community frequently looks to consultants, vendors, and venture capitalists (CVVCs) for facts.

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O'Reilly on Data

OCTOBER 13, 2020

In an incident management blog post , Atlassian defines SLOs as: “the individual promises you’re making to that customer… SLOs are what set customer expectations and tell IT and DevOps teams what goals they need to hit and measure themselves against. While useful, these constructs are not beyond criticism.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 20, 2022

That’s very cynical and doesn’t consider the benefits of using a company’s workforce as a first line of defense,” said Riaan Naude , Global Head of Consulting and Performanta. Schedule regular security and phishing training for employees and remedial measures for those who fail tests.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 22, 2024

The concern about calculating the ROI also rings true to Stuart King, CTO of cybersecurity consulting firm AnzenSage and developer of an AI-powered risk assessment tool for industrial facilities. The value of the chatbot tool for service technicians will be easier to measure, he says.

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ROI IT Measurement Cost-Benefit 143

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 18, 2023

For that we have to measure the environmental footprint,” said Sherif Tawfik, Chief Sustainability Commercial Officer, Microsoft Central, Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Data centers and cloud solutions have to be manufactured with low-carbon materials. It’s our responsibility to provide green data centers.

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datapine

MARCH 8, 2021

This information proved invaluable in offering tailored therapy while taking all-important measures to reduce suicide rates. ER waiting time: The ER waiting time KPI measures the length of time a patient arrives in the ER right through to the moment they see a physician. Cutting down unnecessary costs. Main patient satisfaction KPIs.

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