Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

RPA bots can log into applications, enter data, calculate and complete tasks and then log out, send emails, extract data from websites and excel, and generate reports. Machine learning is technology, or a set of algorithms, that allows you to continually learn from data and make predictions. Enter machine learning (ML).

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Granite Leadership Strategies

MARCH 22, 2023

Harvest cost/pricing data. It is time to break open the accounting system and harvest past performance cost and pricing data. This data is a key enabler to credible bases of estimates and proof of cost reasonableness. The data helps the pricing team to answer basic pricing questions such as: How many hours does it take?

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Business Consulting Agency

MAY 5, 2023

They conduct keyword research, optimize website structure and meta tags, and provide guidance on creating high-quality backlinks. Consultants leverage data-driven insights, conduct A/B testing, and implement conversion optimization techniques to improve website performance, increase conversion rates, and drive revenue growth.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 1, 2017

But acting on performance data alone is a sterile exercise that may result in the rote optimization of individual customer touchpoints while the overall service is commoditized — a dangerous trap if you’re a luxury business. For performance data to have meaning, it must be paired with insight about what customers really want.

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Jerry Fletcher

JUNE 6, 2020

My friend Allen, one of the best sales people I’ve ever met, told me how his jewelry company kept card files on customers that included data on each customer’s extended family. A hash tag (which started on Twitter) linked to a keyword makes the item you’ve tagged more visible on social media. A Rolodex TM.

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Seth Godin Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Your resumé needs to have the right keywords to get tagged.   Ideas become data become databases. More and more, we create our work to be read by a machine. SEO specialists tell you how to write a blog post that Google will like. Everything has an ISBN, an ASIN or a catalog number. 

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Harvard Business

JUNE 16, 2016

This kind of data, on how a company’s product is performing in the field for customers, is, indeed, the ultimate truth because it can alert companies to product problems and customers who are about to defect. ” Product performance data must be processed and acted upon quickly. The CIO of HP Inc.,

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Martinka Consulting

MARCH 6, 2019

Also, efficiency is improved, inspectors now get their efficiency-driven schedules determined by a computer algorithm, they use augmented reality glasses that send real-time feeds to the office, and get back data via those glasses showing him how to perform complicated tasks. This improved efficiency reminds me of one of my favorite stories.

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Kraft Kennedy

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

With Managed Desktop, we’re leveling the playing field and providing accessible desktop management to firms of all sizes, without the prohibitive price tag.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Starting in the mid-1990s, RFID was expected to transform inventory control by using electromagnetic fields to automatically identify and track tags attached to objects. But the tags never took off, because their cost was never offset by sufficient benefits. It also promised to obviate the need for manual barcode scanning at checkouts.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Strategic Thinking Leadership Competency #4: Making Common Sense An intellectual process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating data. Ideas are tagged and compared through comparison sorts. Making common sense requires critical thinking skills. Refinement.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 4, 2018

The question is, what is the best way to develop skills and grow professionally without the big price tags that come with graduate and postgraduate courses. I personally have subscribed for courses around data science so I focus on learning R, SQL, and Python. Below are five favourite tips for skill development at zero cost.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Almost all of AI’s recent progress is through one type, in which some input data (A) is used to quickly generate some simple response (B). Today’s supervised learning software has an Achilles’ heel: It requires a huge amount of data. In this world of open source, the scarce resources are therefore: Data.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Consider how Jeff Hudson, the CEO of Venafi, described internet security when addressing executives in Global 5000 businesses: He likened cryptographic keys and digital certificates — which identify webservers, software, devices, apps, and critical infrastructure — to the tags attached to every cell in the human body.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2016

For many companies, the price tag and the commitment of resources are too high a hurdle. At the less-expensive end is a knowledge-based approach that organizes data and language into highly malleable and helpful blocks of information. The differences in their data models will slow, and perhaps hobble, the entire program.

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Martinka Consulting

JANUARY 15, 2015

What I got was one short game of phone tag. The rest are just part of big data that gets some people excited over nothing. It’s also a fantastic place for dreamers. Five or six years ago I wasted a few thousand dollars on Google Adwords and similar from Yahoo and Bing. I never talked to a live person or exchanged emails with anybody.

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Harvard Business

MAY 28, 2018

Since 2015, our data shows that rate snowballing again, nearly quadrupling to an average of 1000 deals annually. But while these are sensible strategies, few companies outside of the technology industry are achieving their desired returns on the eye-popping price tags of some of these deals, in part because they overvalue flashy technologies.

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Harvard Business

MAY 10, 2018

Likewise Alibaba formed a special task force in 2016 to identify counterfeits and their manufacturers and distributors through data analysis, which it relays to law enforcement. The code or tag is a digital product ID that is scanned every time the product changes hands so the consumer can trace its origin and history.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 17, 2019

years ago my touchpoints with blockchain increased, for example, while writing my master degree thesis on “Possible Applications on Health Data and Health Insurance” I interviewed someone in the health space that was working on a blockchain project for his health data startup. How about the communities within the ecosystem?

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Harvard Business

JUNE 28, 2018

It can provide an immutable, digital audit trail of transactions, and can be used to cheaply verify the integrity of data. Therefore, storing records that contain a baby’s current location in a way that makes these data points immutable and verifiable seems like a great use of blockchain technology.

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Successful Independent Consulting

MAY 15, 2017

Secure your files and data by setting up automatic back-up procedures. For example, optimizing your LinkedIn profile for potential clients, creating your “tag line,” memorizing your “elevator pitch,” creating a Facebook page or Twitter account, building a website, etc.) Set up your accounting system or hire a bookkeeper.

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freshminds

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

In 2016, systems are going to become ever more aware of their surroundings, interacting with more devices than ever before, collecting this data and adjusting themselves accordingly. The data these devices send and receive will be analysed by algorithms that will become more and more accurate at determining how humans live their lives.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 27, 2017

For example: If the phrase contains the word “mad,” code it as being negative or If the object in the picture has four wheels, tag it as a car. Should it be tagged as a toy? Rather, it serves as our metal detector, surfacing the signals in the data and alerting us of where to dig for gold. As a swallowing hazard?

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The Nonprofit Consultant

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

I'd love to hear from somebody from the Nature Conservancy with more data, and whether or not they feel they've gotten a good ROI from Facebook Causes. Tags: causes Nonprofit social media facebook. They're no bunch of dummies. I'm guessing they've done the analysis and are satisfied. What about you?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 23, 2017

The data-gathering process can be frustrating, and many clinicians are growing skeptical of its clinical value. Ultimately, he plans to use the outcomes data from the measurement program to compare his department’s performance with others’ in order to find ways to improve, but this was not touted as the central benefit.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

But despite growing chatbots’ growing sophistication, the software still can’t contextualize data – the basic requirement for human-like conversation. This tag-team effort also enables the company to handle a higher volume of interactions than it would be possible with a human workforce alone.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 3, 2016

Inventory data drives replenishment: Inaccurate stock data results in some items being overstocked (when inventory is understated in the system) and other items being understocked (when inventory is overstated in the system). To address this problem, this retailer planned to tag products at the item level.

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Women in Consulting

AUGUST 28, 2014

Data Storage and File Sharing. Then organize your expenses with custom categories, tags and comments. Adobe EchoSign – EchoSign’s complete, automated electronic signature and web contracting solution features the easiest signing experience in the industry. Instantly send, e-sign, track and file documents securely online.

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Melissa Agnes

MAY 2, 2016

Contrarily, if you already have a CRM or other systems that contain all of this contact information for one or more stakeholder groups, be sure to: Tag the appropriate data for easy reference, access and filtering in the heat of the moment. Reference the systems in the appropriate places within your crisis plan (i.e.:

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Perhaps the most well-known data heist perpetrated by an “insider” was Edward Snowden’s appropriation and disclosure of data from the National Security Agency. First, it’s necessary to determine if your company intends to monitor data in-transit and/or data at-rest. David Soanes/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2018

The privileging of immediate data can take many forms. To avoid expedience bias, go beyond the data that is easiest to get, and prioritize less obvious signs of success or failure, such as a person’s ability to motivate other team members to hit their goals. How to address the bias.

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Prudent Pedal

MARCH 27, 2020

Google Tag Manager: I stumbled across Loves Data on YouTube. Go deeper on some important marketing areas: SEO: Moz made all their training available at no charge. Check it out and perhaps add it to your list. More good stuff. Update the Prudent Marketing Manifesto-I continue to learn and shape my worldview.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

There is a new, even more elusive, bottleneck: the organization itself and its ability to adopt and adapt big data and analytics capabilities. The company knew there was huge value in solving the idle problem, but it could not do so leveraging traditional technologies as the data volumes were too large (i.e.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

And simply collecting data is not enough – to be used, data has to be presented usefully. This contrasts starkly with the “skills”—if we can call them that—that users can tag so quickly on LinkedIn, such as “higher education” or even “ninja”). One potential model is GitHub.

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Melissa Agnes

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

For example, in the event of a data breach you would want to include the date of the occurrence, what you know at this point in time, a compassionate and reassuring statement, and what you’re currently doing to remedy the situation, amongst other things. You should also task them with keeping these lists current and up to date.

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Harvard Business

MAY 25, 2017

CEO incentives have traditionally been evaluated against objective data — also labelled “hard.” Corporations are now taking a further step beyond objective metrics, which can be financial and nonfinancial, to include subjective measures — tagged as “soft.”

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The Nonprofit Consultant

JANUARY 17, 2008

Wyland states, the IRS, and all the various nonprofit watch-dog groups that analyze our IRS filings, all base their evaluations on data that is "overwhelmingly financial in nature. Tags: receiving giving philanthropy charity Nonprofit foundations.

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