Jedox

APRIL 9, 2020

Times of crisis mean uncertainty, both personally and professionally. In this blog post, we’ll look at the importance of agility in FP&A in being able to better manage uncertainties, even during uncertain times and build resilience for the future. Business Continuity. Better agility increases resiliency.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 26, 2024

In its latest filing, the company said it continued executing cost management measures, “including limiting external hiring, employee reorganizations, and other actions” to align its investments with strategic priorities and customer needs. These actions resulted in a reduction in overall headcount.

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Rocket-Powered Data Science

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Those F’s are: Fragility, Friction, and FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt). Another perspective on technology-induced business disruption (including ChatGPT deployments) is to consider the three F’s that affect (and can potentially derail) such projects. Fragility occurs when a built system is easily “broken” when some component is changed.

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O'Reilly on Data

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Technical sophistication: Sophistication measures a team’s ability to use advanced tools and techniques (e.g., Technical competence: Competence measures a team’s ability to successfully deliver on initiatives and projects. Technical competence results in reduced risk and uncertainty.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 24, 2023

It’s no surprise, then, that according to a June KPMG survey, uncertainty about the regulatory environment was the top barrier to implementing gen AI. So here are some of the strategies organizations are using to deploy gen AI in the face of regulatory uncertainty. AI is a black box.

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The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2021

by AMIR NAJMI & MUKUND SUNDARARAJAN Data science is about decision making under uncertainty. Some of that uncertainty is the result of statistical inference, i.e., using a finite sample of observations for estimation. But there are other kinds of uncertainty, at least as important, that are not statistical in nature.

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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. Despite a 20% year-on-year increase in revenue, reaching $21.4 and 33% growth seen in Q3 and Q2 respectively.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

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. 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

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.”.

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Jedox

APRIL 21, 2020

In the face of unprecedented uncertainty, the question is how to quickly evaluate risk, opportunities and competitively allocate capital. To understand the marginal impact of changes you need an analytical framework that measures shifts from baseline scenarios. In the face of uncertainty, investor relations are paramount.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 26, 2023

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 is Certain A key reason to do this is because uncertainty abounds. There are a wide range of possible outcomes in 2024.

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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.

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DataRobot

AUGUST 5, 2021

AI and Uncertainty. Some people react to the uncertainty with fear and suspicion. Recently published research addressed the question of “ When Does Uncertainty Matter?: Understanding the Impact of Predictive Uncertainty in ML Assisted Decision Making.”. People are unsure about AI because it’s new. AI you can trust.

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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

APRIL 25, 2022

Collaboration introduces inevitable uncertainty into the process. And the invading Waterfall taskmasters hidden in Scrum’s Trojan Horse absolutely hate uncertainty.) Separating, isolating, and confining people is never going to solve away the uncertainty. The butterfly effect breeds bugs. There’s a balance to be kept, of course.

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Cloudera

DECEMBER 3, 2021

This involves identifying, quantifying and being able to measure ethical considerations while balancing these with performance objectives. Systems should be designed with bias, causality and uncertainty in mind. Uncertainty is a measure of our confidence in the predictions made by a system. System Design. Model Drift.

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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.” He specializes in removing fear, uncertainty, and doubt from strategic decision-making through empirical data and market sensing.

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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 opens up a whole new world for you and takes the uncertainty off identifying your target audience.

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Jen Stirrup

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The foundation should be well structured and have essential data quality measures, monitoring and good data engineering practices. Of course, the findings need to add value, but how do we measure this success? Measures can be financial, tying in with the business strategy. After all, it can sound a bit woolly!

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DataRobot

AUGUST 30, 2021

Humility Means Recognizing Uncertainty. Recognizing and admitting that uncertainty is a major step in establishing trust. A prediction might also be less certain when confronting data measurably dissimilar from the data it was trained on. That is exactly what we mean by humility in AI. Conclusion. AI you can trust.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 8, 2022

Digital disruption, global pandemic, geopolitical crises, economic uncertainty — volatility has thrown into question time-honored beliefs about how best to lead IT. Thriving amid uncertainty means staying flexible, he argues. . Tumultuous times redefine what constitutes success. The past few years in IT have exemplified this.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 8, 2013

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. For each of them, write down the KPI you're measuring, and what that KPI should be for you to consider your efforts a success. Measure and decide what to do.

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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.

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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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 24, 2024

Yet throughout the evening, the common denominator was the need to reduce uncertainty and manage risk. At a recent supper roundtable in London, convened by the endpoint and IT management vendor NinjaOne , attendees discussed some of the industry’s most complex issues. Here are five main takeaways from the event.

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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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 7, 2023

As IT leaders feel pressure from the C-Suite to be more efficient, as well as cut costs and optimize resources, respondents of the survey ranked faster DevOps processes, automated processes, and increasing overall output as the top three measures that would be most impactful to increasing efficiency. Digital Transformation

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

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

They are afraid of failure and the uncertainty of knowledge work, and so that’s stressful. Agile is an amazing risk management tool for managing uncertainty, but that’s not always obvious.” The key is recognizing that planning must be an agile discipline, not a standalone activity performed independently of agile teams.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 23, 2023

The importance of efficiency, optimization, and risk reduction When asked how they measure success within their organizations, respondents noted increased efficiency (71%), optimized resources (67%), and reduced risk (63%). Risk Management: Risk management is a critical focus for technology professionals.

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Smart Data Collective

APRIL 30, 2020

We are also required to follow the same restrictive measures that attempt to contain or mitigate the spread of the virus. Advisable cybersecurity measures. Security measures like VPNs and multi-factor authentication (MFA) may be necessary to secure a home office. Here are some of the ways that these can be achieved.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Hot: Getting comfortable with uncertainty To address disruptions across multiple aspects of the business, organizations need to be able to pivot quickly, says DeVry University CIO Chris Campbell. Harvard’s McNulty says ongoing uncertainty is prompting more interest in futures and scenario planning.

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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. Watch the full video below for more insights.

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datapine

MAY 31, 2022

That’s why it is important to implement a secure BI cloud tool that can leverage proper security measures. To mitigate the various risks and uncertainties in transitioning to the cloud, IT must adapt its traditional IT control processes to include the cloud. Cost management and containment.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 23, 2023

EY recently found that in current economic and financial uncertainty, 94% of tech executives plan to increase their IT investment over the next year. Optimization also rose to the top of IT leaders’ lists: 67% measure success within their IT organization by better optimizing resources.

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The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2019

This classification is based on the purpose, horizon, update frequency and uncertainty of the forecast. A single model may also not shed light on the uncertainty range we actually face. These characteristics of the problem drive the forecasting approaches.

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Sisense

MARCH 26, 2020

To effectively identify what measures need to be taken, analytics can help to summarize and predict how companies should evolve to survive in a challenging environment. Now is the time to apply the full force of business intelligence used by analytics teams to help navigate growing uncertainty. While companies such as Adobe Inc.,

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