All firms are exploring AI opportunities and working out how to apply AI to their businesses. The widespread belief that AI will be transformational is behind the recommendation that firms make significant investments of time and money in creating the necessary capabilities. Though undoubtedly valid, this advice has large firms in mind – with substantial […]
A Portfolio of Project Risks Organizations that undertake many projects experience variance in the performance of each project and so adopt a portfolio approach to managing risk. The variance of the performance of the portfolio of projects will be lower than the variance of any individual project. The risks of the portfolio must be monitored […]
The Azure cloud platform provides powerful, yet easy to use cloud-based tools for data transformation, data analytics and data science. These tools offer a lot of flexibility to Azure developers and cater to a variety of skill levels. This blog provides a brief run through of some of the features of the Azure tools for […]
Introduction There are five key communities with an interest in sustainability; consumers, firms, investors, institutions, and governments. Consumer attitudes are hardening, firms and investors are scrambling to get measures in place, intergovernmental bodies are taking initiatives, politicians are trying to reach a consensus. The efforts of these communities are commendable. But the analytics for sustainability […]
One reason for the success of big Pharma is superior prowess in sales and marketing. Once R&D (Research & Development) has delivered a new patented innovation with global market potential, the marketing and sales activities promote rapid global adoption and shorten the time to peak sales within the patent life. Big Pharma has long dominated […]
Hi Again! I’m back with another post on BigQuery, Power BI and Google Sheets. Today, we’ll be looking at how to connect Power BI and Google Sheets. Ideally, I’d want to create a DirectQuery connection between Power BI and Google Sheets, because the data in my Google spreadsheet changes frequently, and we need the latest […]
Introduction – Engaging Your Web Audience This note is for the CFOs of firms with a web presence and would like an outline roadmap for investing in that presence and the associated analytics. It is not addressed to people in digitally led, consumer-oriented businesses for whom digital is a strategic concern who will find other […]