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How Leading Businesses Organize and Make Sense of Data

Smart Data Collective

Two or three decades ago, gathering data was the biggest challenge businesses faced. Leaders craved more information and access. Today, these same companies are drowning in data. The challenge of today is organizing and making sense of the data. 4 Tips to Help You Make Sense of Your Data. With so much emphasis on collecting and accessing data, it’s easy to become so paralyzed by information that you fail to do anything with it.

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An Introduction to Project Management: A Beginner’s Guide | Simplilearn

Simplilearn

Today, project management is at the core of nearly every business initiative. It is a means of achieving a strategic objective and is the key to organizational success. As the economy and the enterprise landscape become more competitive and chaotic than ever, effective project management is necessary for businesses to perform better, faster, and mo.

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The Business of Business Analysis

BA Times

If I had a dollar for every time I heard somebody complain about how business analysis just isn’t understood in their organization, I’d probably be very rich indeed.

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Self Serve Data Preparation: No Skills Required!

ElegantJ BI

Self Service Data Preparation Takes the Complexity Out of Data Prep! When asked about using an analytical solution to find and use data and make decisions, many business users feel insecure about the process required to get to the results. Data preparation has traditionally been the domain of a data scientist, a business analyst or an IT professional.

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How to Build the Ideal HR Team

HR doesn’t exist in a vacuum. This work impacts everyone: from the C-Suite to your newest hire. It also drives results. Learn how to make it all happen in Paycor’s latest guide.

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How Cryptocurrency Is Benefiting From Big Data Analytics

Smart Data Collective

The concept of cryptocurrency is still foreign to so many in the United States and around the world. There is a lot more mass appeal of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Litecoin, and others. Generally speaking, though, they are still mysterious in the eyes of the common individual. In the cryptocurrency market, we are starting to see the emergency and convergence of crypto and big data analytics.

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BI Is Dead; Long Live BI

Forrester - Business Intelligence

The perception of legacy enterprise business intelligence (BI) platforms comes with some legitimate stigma and baggage. It’s technology first, not business-led; the graphical user interface (GUI)-based user experience (UX) doesn’t address ease of use for all business decision-makers; there are too many underutilized reports and dashboards floating around in the enterprise; and signals produced by […].

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Self Serve Data Preparation: No Skills Required!

ElegantJ BI

Self Service Data Preparation Takes the Complexity Out of Data Prep! When asked about using an analytical solution to find and use data and make decisions, many business users feel insecure about the process required to get to the results. Data preparation has traditionally been the domain of a data scientist, a business analyst or an IT professional.

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Differentiating Between Data Lakes and Data Warehouses

Smart Data Collective

The market for data warehouses is booming. One study forecasts that the market will be worth $23.8 billion by 2030. Demand is growing at an annual pace of 29%. While there is a lot of discussion about the merits of data warehouses, not enough discussion centers around data lakes. We talked about enterprise data warehouses in the past, so let’s contrast them with data lakes.

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Increasing Enterprise-Level Predictability With Agile

Leading Agile

New Paper Improving Enterprise-Level Predictability With Agile Get it Now. We typically think of Agility as being nearly synonymous with adaptability, and that a change in mindset or culture to become more adaptable is the right place to begin Agile Transformation. But the truth is that one of the most common goals organizations have for Transformation is actually predictability.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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“Learning From The Best” - Bob Prentiss "BOB THE BA"

BA Times

“Learning from the Best” is a series where I share lessons from some of the best mentors, coaches, and role models I’ve learned from. I hope you will find them inspiring too.

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Self Serve Data Preparation: No Skills Required!

ElegantJ BI

Self Service Data Preparation Takes the Complexity Out of Data Prep! When asked about using an analytical solution to find and use data and make decisions, many business users feel insecure about the process required to get to the results. Data preparation has traditionally been the domain of a data scientist, a business analyst or an IT professional.

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How to Use Big Data to Cash in on the Firearms Market

Smart Data Collective

If you’ve never been aware of big data in the firearms industry, you’re in for a treat. Statistics over time have proven that the firearms industry does exceptionally well under two conditions: right before a presidential election and during a national crisis. Currently, the U.S. is facing both of these conditions at once. This means it’s a good time to go into business in the firearms industry.

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How to Support Your Remote Business Analysis Team | Analyst Catalyst Blog

Analyst Catalyst Blog

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Maximize Productivity and Simplify IT Management with Conversational AI

ChatGPT has dominated boardroom conversations for months now. From drafting a stock trading program, to creating a SQL query to model data, there are practically no limits to the applications of the AI language model assistant. At ManageEngine, we have been working on our own AI-assistant, Zia. Zia is a fully-trained analytics assistant that can perform a range of functions such as creating and adding reports to dashboards, providing conversational support to data analysis, insight discovery, bu

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5 Reasons Why You Should Consider Scrum Master Training

Agilemania

I often receive a question from people asking - WHY one should attend a PSM training when it is not mandatory for taking the certification? The post 5 Reasons Why You Should Consider Scrum Master Training appeared first on Agilemania.

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Discovering product development excellence

Think Agile

Discovering product development excellence. Join us to learn how to improve your product agility by defining and refining backlog items that are “ready” to pull into planning and development. My background is in Process Engineering and Business Analysis. I worked in Agile(ish) teams for a few years and became a Product Owner for a Large Financial Institution in 2012.

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Common Cyber Attacks And How To Protect Yourself From Them

Smart Data Collective

Cybercrime, particularly in the financial sector, not only cost the world economy $2.7 billion in 2018, but it also is one of the most feared threats to national security in the United States, with more than 164 million personal records getting exposed in 2019, alone. . The list of different types of cyber attacks grows as rapidly as other parts of the technology and ecommerce sectors , and with constant evolution there is no set way to protect against them today that you can ensure will still b

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Be Bold. Get Inspired. Take Action. | Analyst Catalyst Blog

Analyst Catalyst Blog

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Data-Backed Secrets for Minimizing Discounts & Maximizing ROI Post-Holiday

Use data to turn one-off holiday shoppers into repeat buyers and effortlessly drive more sales throughout the year. Our guide will give you an in-depth understanding of what triggers your customers to buy and breaks down campaign examples from leading B2C brands.

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Exception reporting is one of the reasons Savona selected Phocas BI

Phocas

Savona, an independent British food distributor, wanted a BI tool that reviews sales information includes human resources data and brings together online and offline orders into one version of the truth. The team also plans to use the functionality in Phocas for the management of daily exception reporting to send to users rather than having it recreated in the ERP system.

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Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring

BA Coach

The knowledge area Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring of the business analysis framework focuses on preparing and monitoring the execution of business analysis work. All outputs that are produced within this knowledge area are used by other knowledge areas, and therefore Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring is often seen as a first step in the framework.

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Business Capability Analysis

The BAWorld

Business Capability analysis is conducted to assess the enterprise capabilities for various purposes. In this post, I am going to simplify the concept of Business capability analysis. Note: It is one of the BABOK techniques and an important one for CBAP and CCBA aspirants. What is a business capability? Measure of the ability of an entity (department, organization, person, system) to achieve its objectives, especially in relation to its overall mission.

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Be Bold. Get Inspired. Take Action. | Analyst Catalyst Blog

Analyst Catalyst Blog

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The Complete People Management Toolkit

From welcoming new team members to tough termination decisions, each employment lifecycle phase requires a balance of knowledge, empathy & legal diligence.

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Insights

Forrester - Business Intelligence

What exactly is an "insight"? Analyst Brandon Purcell previews Forrester's new Periodic Table of Insights which will be unveiled at the upcoming Data Strategy & Insights live virtual event.

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Requirements Discipline: Avoiding “Death by a Thousand Paper Cuts"

Techwell

Absent an effective requirements baseline it is difficult to distinguish clarifications and error correction from enhancements and changes to the original ask.

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5 Decision Analysis Tools to Catapult a Business

Pestle Analysis

Think of decision analysis as a systemic, quantitative, and graphic approach to assess situations that enables efficient ways of solving problems in business.

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Improve financial decision making with technology

Phocas

Financial decision making is a vital management skill because it drives performance and allows a business to take calculated risks and grow. Financial decisions revolve around two key considerations: how and when to borrow money and how and when to spend it. Traditionally, managers have extracted numbers from financial statements and put them into formula-filled spreadsheets for finding key inputs.

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.