David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

MAY 20, 2025

We live in a time of uncertainty, not unpredictability. If the shutdown stretches into weeks or months, what is the best response, including the optimal allocation of available products? They must be able to guide senior leadership teams in developing optimal responses to potential disruptions and a range of business environments.

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Smart Data Collective

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Data analytics technology has helped retail companies optimize their business models in a number of ways. One of the biggest benefits of data analytics is that it helps companies improve stability during times of uncertainty. This underscores the importance of investing in predictive analytics technology to forecast sales.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

One of the firm’s recent reports, “Political Risks of 2024,” for instance, highlights AI’s capacity for misinformation and disinformation in electoral politics, something every client must weather to navigate their business through uncertainty, especially given the possibility of “electoral violence.” “The

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The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

APRIL 17, 2017

by ERIC TASSONE, FARZAN ROHANI We were part of a team of data scientists in Search Infrastructure at Google that took on the task of developing robust and automatic large-scale time series forecasting for our organization. So it should come as no surprise that Google has compiled and forecast time series for a long time.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Most use master data to make daily processes more efficient and to optimize the use of existing resources. This is due, on the one hand, to the uncertainty associated with handling confidential, sensitive data and, on the other hand, to a number of structural problems.

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Jedox

APRIL 16, 2020

Dean Boyer as a guest to the Jedox Blog for our series on “Managing Uncertainty” Mr. Boyer is a Director of Technology Services at Marks Paneth LLP, a premier accounting firm based in the United States. He shares his expertise on how an EPM solution supports managing economic uncertainty, particularly in times of crisis.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Perhaps in an age when our forebears huddled around campfires waiting for warmer weather annual reviews were the optimal way to accumulate knowledge and empower human agency. As a first step toward reducing uncertainty and surprise in 2024, I suggest CIOs take baby steps to operationalize learning by leaning into this briefing structure.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Better financial planning via EPM suite In order to help healthcare companies optimize financial and operational management, the company said it was launching planning capabilities that can model scenarios, determine future demand, optimize resources, and help users make better financial, workforce, and patient care decisions.

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BI-Survey

MARCH 16, 2021

Markets and competition today are highly dynamic and complex, and the future is characterized by uncertainty – not least because of COVID-19. This uncertainty is currently at the forefront of everyone‘s minds. A dynamic environment requires flexible decision support and short-term updates of targets and forecasts.

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BI-Survey

MARCH 16, 2021

Markets and competition today are highly dynamic and complex, and the future is characterized by uncertainty – not least because of COVID-19. This uncertainty is currently at the forefront of everyone‘s minds. A dynamic environment requires flexible decision support and short-term updates of targets and forecasts.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

A DSS supports the management, operations, and planning levels of an organization in making better decisions by assessing the significance of uncertainties and the tradeoffs involved in making one decision over another. These DSS include systems that use accounting and financial models, representational models, and optimization models.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The global IT services industry is at a significant crossroads, with the explosive growth of generative AI and deepening economic uncertainties reshaping its future. Cognizant Technology Solutions announced a full-year revenue forecast below expectations. This means the IT implementations will see thinner margins and profitability.

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Smart Data Collective

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Predictive analytics technology can help optimize your profile to better meet your investment goals. Last year, Xiafei Li and his two colleagues in China published a study in the Annals of Operations Research on the ability to forecast stock market volatility with predictive analytics models.

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Timo Elliott

JANUARY 4, 2021

First, because uncertainty exploded. For example, it’s used for pipeline forecasting, and it has been particularly useful recently – we cancelled almost all staff travel and physical events, and the system was used to project the effects on profitability. Dashboards and analytics have been around for a long, long time.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 28, 2022

So, we’ve carried that forecast through to the fourth quarter,” CFO Brian Olsavsky said, according to a Motley Fool transcript. But we’ll continue to look for ways to optimize our operations to use less energy,” the CFO said during the earnings call.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 11, 2023

While international conflict, economic uncertainty and climate change are affecting businesses of all kinds, energy companies and utilities are also dealing with aging infrastructure, constant cyberattacks, increased regulation and rising customer expectations.

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Jet Global

JULY 16, 2020

The construction industry has been hit especially hard by the events of 2020, with spending in the US forecast to be down as much as 9 percent. Emphasis on accurate financial and operational reporting in order to maintain cash flow is more important than ever. About insightsoftware. Visit insightsoftware.com for more information.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Forecasts have suggested that market dynamics are changing and that the private equity is poised to expand at an annualized growth rate of 12.8% Accenture reports, that only 8% of mid-sized companies currently achieve optimal levels of operational excellence. to double in AUM from $5.8T

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2023

In today’s uncertain economic landscape, it is no surprise that organizations are driven to optimize business costs. While it’s important to be prepared for any potential challenges that may arise, it is equally important to avoid overprovisioning to optimize your business resources and achieve your sustainability goals.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 4, 2022

He says organizations are looking to automate, streamline operations, and reduce costs to help deal with an unsettled labor market, worker shortages, inflation, and geopolitical uncertainty. Cybersecurity needs driving IT spending.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 18, 2023

If anything, 2023 has proved to be a year of reckoning for businesses, and IT leaders in particular, as they attempt to come to grips with the disruptive potential of this technology — just as debates over the best path forward for AI have accelerated and regulatory uncertainty has cast a longer shadow over its outlook in the wake of these events.

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BI-Survey

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Overnight, the impact of uncertainty, dynamics and complexity on markets could no longer be ignored. Local events in an increasingly interconnected economy and uncertainties such as the climate crisis will continue to create high volatility and even chaos. The COVID-19 pandemic caught most companies unprepared.

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CDW Research Hub

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Optimal use of capital, maintaining disciplined capital allocation prioritization. Founded in 1980 with headquarters in San Antonio, TX, Sirius is a privately held, leading national solutions integrator focused on helping organizations transform their business by managing their operations, optimizing their IT, and securing it all.

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Jet Global

MARCH 30, 2021

Tax planning is playing an increasingly important part in corporates’ enterprise resource management (ERM) strategies, driven by the many uncertainties created by political, economic, and pandemic-related trends. These include both physical and figurative dangers that may interfere with an organization’s operations and objectives.

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

According to the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory of the US’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA), “Climate models reduce the uncertainty of climate change impacts, which aids in adaptation.” Learn about the IBM Sustainability Accelerator. Explore IBM Environmental Intelligence Suite 1 Climate Modeling.

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IBM Big Data Hub

MAY 24, 2023

In an era of evolving consumer preferences and economic uncertainties, the beverage industry stands as a vibrant reflection of changing trends and shifting priorities. Data-driven insights and informed decision-making As with any transformative endeavor, data and data-driven insights will be paramount in Diageo’s journey.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 28, 2024

However, new energy is restricted by weather and climate, which means extreme weather conditions and unpredictable external environments bring an element of uncertainty to new energy sources. We believe that the wireless private network is the optimal solution when wireless spectrum resources are available.

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bridgei2i

JULY 8, 2020

This is probably the first time ever that we are witnessing a demand, a supply, and also a resource uncertainty. In the short run, this means they have to get their demand forecast right. I love your optimism Ganesh, and I love the fact that you are able to abstract information in such clear buckets. These are strange times.

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bridgei2i

APRIL 20, 2020

So, the COVID 19 outbreak seems to have impacted the world on an unprecedented scale, and everyone is grappling with the environment of uncertainty that it has created. Finally, navigating the next few years, in my view, would need multiple constraints to be optimized continuously. Always a pleasure to talk to you. Anushruti: Likewise.

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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.

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DataRobot Blog

MARCH 17, 2022

Businesses today operate under greater pressure and greater uncertainty than ever before. In the face of this pressure, more and more companies are looking for ways to automate forecasting and empower front-line decision-makers with actionable insights. With DataRobot AI Cloud 8.0,

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Jet Global

APRIL 9, 2023

This means finance is saddled with providing timely planning, forecasting, and reporting that informs business decisions in the moment. When you consider it from that perspective, it makes sense to invest in optimizing the processes and tools that build data literacy across the organization.

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The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

JULY 11, 2017

Forecasting (e.g. Time series data are having something of a moment in the tech blogs right now, with Facebook announcing their "Prophet" system for time series forecasting (Taylor and Letham 2017), and Google posting about its forecasting system in this blog (Tassone and Rohani 2017).

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bridgei2i

JUNE 3, 2020

Consumers feel threatened by the prolonged uncertainty, not having had to deal with anything like it, in their lives. Difficulties in forecasting & planning: Pre-COVID forecasts are no longer valid as the pandemic has entirely disrupted the market and enterprises would need to work on new models to predict KPIs.

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bridgei2i

JUNE 11, 2020

If nothing else, this anecdote offers valuable insight into the impact that uncertainty of any kind has on consumer behaviour; it triggers volatility. The immediate factor guiding consumer demand behaviour in CPG is Fear— fear of uncertainty, fear of losing incomes, fear of falling sick, fear of running out of essentials etc.

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Jedox

AUGUST 20, 2020

In today’s challenging market landscape, CFOs have struggled to answer basic questions like what is my optimal cost structure and what will my cash position be at any given time? But as the current market uncertainty continues, CFOs need to refresh their approach to achieving cash and cost transparency. Conclusion.

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IBM Big Data Hub

MARCH 8, 2024

Some forecasts suggest online retail might be responsible for half of all retail revenues by next year. Digital optimization and automation tools have made it cheaper and easier for businesses to use customer data or third-party data, creating intelligent ecommerce sites.

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