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An Overview of Sales Analytics in Event Industry

BizAcuity

Some businesses in 2003 started using predictive analytics generating an average Return on Investment or ROI of 145% as per the study that was undertaken by IDC. With more and more information became readily available online in the mid 2000s, companies started taking advantage of it by leveraging big data analytics.

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7 Key Lessons for Agile Leaders from McChrystal’s Team of Teams Book

Vitality Chicago

I am always on the lookout for great books. Recently a fellow Agile Coach recommended General Stanley McChrystal’s Team of Teams book to me. Wow, I was really blown away by this book! It is a great book with many lessons for Agile Leaders ! I hope that you will be inspired to read the book.

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Interesting statistics around big data, data analysis, and usage

Analysts Corner

Data generation, volume, and growth statistics Between the dawn of time and 2003, 5 exabytes of data had been created at Google. Biography: Rupa Mahanti is a consultant, researcher, speaker, data enthusiast and author of several books on data (data quality, data governance and data analytics).

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150+ Top Global Cloud Thought Leaders and Next Generation Leaders of 2021

Whizlabs

David is also a contributor to IEEE Cloud Computing and has published countless number of articles and books over the years. Jason is the author or coauthor of four books – The Agile Architecture Revolution (Wiley, 2013), Service Orient or Be Doomed! He is currently working on his next book – Agile Digital Transformation.

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What is “Hyper Agile”?

Managed Agile

One of my favorite books on this topic is “ The Discipline of Market Leaders” by Treacy and Wierzema. 1 It’s an older book, but it is a classic as far as I’m concerned and the fundamental ideas behind this book are just as valid today as the day it was published. The Discipline of Market Leaders.

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Domopalooza Keynote Feature: The Nate Silver Story

Domo

He called his system PECOTA, which stands for Player Empirical Comparison and Optimization Test Algorithm, and sold it to Baseball Prospectus in 2003. But he didn’t love it, and in his off hours he focused his energy on baseball—more specifically, on developing a set of algorithms to better forecast the success of baseball players.

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What Happened to Southwest Airlines?

Managed Agile

Another concept that is very relevant to both Southwest Airlines and Boeing is the idea of “value disciplines” One of my favorite books on this subject is “The Discipline of Market Leaders” by Michael Treacy and Fred Wiersema. In the case of Boeing, it is engineering excellence.