CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Revenue growth at Amazon’s cloud computing division, Amazon Web Services, continued to slow in the fourth quarter as enterprises advanced their cost-cutting measures, brought on by uncertain macroeconomic environment. As expected, these optimization efforts continued into the fourth quarter,” Olsavsky added.

Uncertainty 98

Uncertainty Advertising Optimization Reporting 98

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 14, 2022

In How to Measure Anything , Douglas Hubbard offers an alternative definition of “measurement” to the Oxford English Dictionary’s “the size, length, or amount of something.” Hubbard defines measurement as: “A quantitatively expressed reduction of uncertainty based on one or more observations.”.

Uncertainty 105

Uncertainty Measurement Cost-Benefit Optimization 105

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

MAY 20, 2025

We live in a time of uncertainty, not unpredictability. Yet those organizations that lack the technology to perform short planning cycles have little or no ability to measure trade-offs in the plans in which they are involved. Or, at least enduring the least amount of damage.

Forecasting 130

Forecasting Software Finance Uncertainty 130

Smart Data Collective

AUGUST 19, 2021

Businesses worldwide, especially SaaS businesses, have discovered that smart, measurable content marketing is the key to achieving their business goals. Then, you can simply plan, create, measure, optimize and repeat. Analytics helps you to know who exactly is reading your content and helps you optimize for them.

Marketing 134

Marketing Analytics Measurement Optimization 134

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.

Uncertainty 111

Uncertainty Forecasting Technology Strategy 111

Occam's Razor

APRIL 8, 2013

Sometimes, we escape the clutches of this sub optimal existence and do pick good metrics or engage in simple A/B testing. First, you figure out what you want to improve; then you create an experiment; then you run the experiment; then you measure the results and decide what to do. Measure and decide what to do.

Metrics 157

Metrics KPI Analytics Key Performance Indicator 157

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 11, 2024

To get back in front, IT leaders will have to transform lessons learned from 2023 into actionable, adaptable processes, as veteran technology pros have been remarkably consistent in identifying global and economic uncertainties as key challenges for IT leaders to anticipate in 2024 as well.

IT 133

IT Uncertainty Cost-Benefit Strategy 133

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In the new report, titled “Digital Transformation, Data Architecture, and Legacy Systems,” researchers defined a range of measures of what they summed up as “data architecture coherence.” But the urgency and the upside of modernizing and optimizing the data architecture keeps coming into sharper focus. Data architecture coherence.

Machine Learning 118

Machine Learning Data Architecture Uncertainty Data-driven 118

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

APRIL 23, 2024

the weight given to Likes in our video recommendation algorithm) while $Y$ is a vector of outcome measures such as different metrics of user experience (e.g., Crucially, it takes into account the uncertainty inherent in our experiments. Figure 2: Spreading measurements out makes estimates of model (slope of line) more accurate.

Experimentation 52

Experimentation Optimization Uncertainty Metrics 52

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 7, 2023

The current economic landscape has been a cause for concern across many industries and, as a result, businesses are looking for any and all ways to be more efficient and optimized. This strategy of retention allows companies to best weather the economic uncertainty and emerge on the other side with minimal damage.

IT 98

IT Uncertainty Optimization Cost-Benefit 98

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 23, 2023

Respondents were asked about their current IT stressors, their approach to modernizing their IT infrastructure, and how they plan to become more efficient and optimized in the years ahead. It helps reduce risk, increase efficiency, optimize resources, and improve both the customer and employee experience.

IT 98

IT Risk Management Risk Optimization 98

datapine

MAY 31, 2022

That’s why it is important to implement a secure BI cloud tool that can leverage proper security measures. These tools also help optimize the cloud for cost, governance, and security. To mitigate the various risks and uncertainties in transitioning to the cloud, IT must adapt its traditional IT control processes to include the cloud.

Risk 237

Risk Cost-Benefit Business Intelligence Data-driven 237

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 9, 2023

Like most CIOs you’ve no doubt leaned on ROI, TCO and KPIs to measure the business value of your IT investments. Those Three Big Acronyms are still important for fine-tuning your IT operations, but success today is increasingly measured in business outcomes. Maybe you’ve even surpassed expectations in each of these yardsticks.

ROI 126

ROI Cost-Benefit KPI Uncertainty 126

DataKitchen

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The uncertainty of not knowing where data issues will crop up next and the tiresome game of ‘who’s to blame’ when pinpointing the failure. After navigating the complexity of multiple systems and stages to bring data to its end-use case, the final product’s value becomes the ultimate yardstick for measuring success.

Testing 173

Testing Data Quality Predictive Modeling Metrics 173

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. Although there are efforts to boost industries such as semiconductors, there is much uncertainty about when the impact may be seen.

IT 98

IT Uncertainty Consulting Forecasting 98

Smart Data Collective

APRIL 18, 2019

Uncertainties are a major roadblock in automating cybersecurity. The software developers can only automate what they’re certain about, and there is an enormous amount of uncertainty in the work at hand. Fully Automated Solutions: Not Necessarily Just Around the Corner. That’s the best approach. Final Thoughts.

Behavioral Analytics 98

Behavioral Analytics Advertising Uncertainty Machine Learning 98

Jedox

APRIL 2, 2020

In partnership with Microsoft Azure and NetApp , Jedox is blazing the trail forward to use cloud native technology to continue meeting the demands of a fast-changing world that often includes measurable uncertainties. The Jedox Cloud.

Digital Transformation 89

Digital Transformation Uncertainty Reporting Optimization 89

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 10, 2024

“Getting the right people with diverse skill sets and capabilities is critical, and then it’s about finding the right roles for those people and giving them clarity on the vision, strategy, and measures of success,” she says. This really personalizes the experience for customers, optimizes productivity, and enables speed to market.

Strategy 118

Strategy Cost-Benefit Uncertainty Technology 118

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Economic uncertainty, increased competition, sustainability concerns, shareholder expectations, and regulatory challenges are also top of mind. Revisit the project portfolio Strong demand management is essential for sustainable IT cost optimization, says Anja Allen, principal in EY Americas’ technology consulting practice.

IT 138

IT Cost-Benefit Digital Transformation ROI 138

IBM Big Data Hub

MARCH 25, 2024

Get the study: The Revolutionary Content Supply Chain A content supply chain brings together people, processes, and technology to effectively plan, create, produce, launch, measure, and manage content. Modernizing a workflow to introduce a content supply chain means disruption and uncertainty.

Uncertainty 97

Uncertainty Cost-Benefit Risk Measurement 97

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2019

by THOMAS OLAVSON Thomas leads a team at Google called "Operations Data Science" that helps Google scale its infrastructure capacity optimally. This classification is based on the purpose, horizon, update frequency and uncertainty of the forecast. Our team does a lot of forecasting.

Forecasting 115

Forecasting Data Science Statistics Uncertainty 115

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.

Uncertainty 102

Uncertainty Sales Finance Cost-Benefit 102

IBM Big Data Hub

JUNE 12, 2023

Maximize the optionality that hybrid multicloud brings to mitigate regulatory and technological uncertainty in your environment. Understand the immediate power and sustained value of great architecture with embedded security controls and continuous monitoring.

Strategy 85

Strategy Cost-Benefit Digital Transformation Uncertainty 85

AWS Big Data

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

A more advanced method is to combine traditional inverted-index(BM25) based retrieval, but this approach requires spending a considerable amount of time customizing lexicons, synonym dictionaries, and stop-word dictionaries for optimization. Based on our experience of RAG, we measured recall@1, recall@4, and recall@10 for your reference.

Metrics 111

Metrics Testing Experimentation Modeling 111

IBM Big Data Hub

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Government executives face several uncertainties as they embark on their journeys of modernization. How to quantify the impact : Quantify, articulate and measure the expected long-term benefit of a capability to justify the investment. time (how much time is lost?)

Data-driven 85

Data-driven IT Measurement Cost-Benefit 85

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.

Risk 141

Risk Manufacturing Enterprise Technology 141

Sisense

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Smart use of your data can be the key to optimizing processes, identifying new opportunities, and gaining or keeping a competitive edge. Most commonly, we think of data as numbers that show information such as sales figures, marketing data, payroll totals, financial statistics, and other data that can be counted and measured objectively.

Statistics 98

Statistics Unstructured Data Data-driven Visualization 98

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.

Digital Transformation 78

Digital Transformation Consulting Data-driven Uncertainty 78

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. HPLC can deliver 99.9%

Interactive 95

Interactive Uncertainty Data Collection IoT 95

IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 20, 2023

An efficient sustainable supply chain process with optimized CO2 footprint is an enterprise requirement as well as a societal need. It requires a combination of capabilities around process optimization. A Process Mining exercise drawing data from enterprise SAP has helped measure KPI performance and define the transformation roadmap.

KPI 66

KPI Consulting Finance Enterprise 66

IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

These proactive measures are made possible by evolving technologies designed to help people adapt to the effects of climate change today. 5 The Global Disaster Preparedness Center recommends policymakers and others adopt a range of measures to help their regions adapt to higher heat. Learn about the IBM Sustainability Accelerator.

Forecasting 113

Forecasting Modeling Reporting Risk 113

Perceptual Edge

APRIL 21, 2019

Every choice that we make when creating a data visualization seeks to optimize the signal-to-noise ratio. It’s worth noting that particular content doesn’t qualify as noise simply because it’s inconvenient.

Visualization 76

Visualization Statistics Uncertainty Modeling 76

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 12, 2023

In many ways, the manufacturing industry stands on edge—emerging from a pandemic and facing all-time highs in demand yet teetering on inflation-related economic uncertainty and coping with skilled labor shortages. The sheer volume of data available, for instance, prompts heightened expectations for real-time insights.

Manufacturing 75

Manufacturing Technology IoT Internet of Things 75

bridgei2i

JULY 8, 2020

This is probably the first time ever that we are witnessing a demand, a supply, and also a resource uncertainty. And if you’re a banker or an insurer, you’re probably busy figuring out how to measure these risks, mobilize these resources, and fund capital that’s going to provide strong growth. These are strange times.

Digital Transformation 132

Digital Transformation Enterprise Insurance Risk 132

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

One instance of how that exploration led to real business benefits was with the application of machine learning to predict optimal product formulation using a set of desired consumer benefits. The team was given time to gather and clean data and experiment with machine learning models,’’ Crowe says.

Experimentation 133

Experimentation Consulting Technology Machine Learning 133

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. Optimize technology, methods and organization in a well-coordinated way.

Forecasting 52

Forecasting Uncertainty Measurement Cost-Benefit 52

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

AUGUST 27, 2019

This problem can be phrased as an optimization problem — given some fixed review capacity how should we sample videos? The measurement may be biased if our samples are generated from a procedure that samples without replacement, such as reservoir sampling , especially if some items have disproportionate weight, i.e., $p(v_i) cdot n$ is large.

Metrics 98

Metrics Statistics Uncertainty Optimization 98