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Fast Enough

Tim Kadlec

The next question is whether load time is even the correct metric to be measuring to determine “fast enough” It certainly has value (as does watching page weight), but it is not the most accurate indication of how a user is perceiving the loading of a page. Make sure they can get things done easily and efficiently.

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Building and Scaling Data Lineage at Netflix to Improve Data Infrastructure Reliability, and…

The Netflix TechBlog

Building and Scaling Data Lineage at Netflix to Improve Data Infrastructure Reliability, and Efficiency By: Di Lin , Girish Lingappa , Jitender Aswani Imagine yourself in the role of a data-inspired decision maker staring at a metric on a dashboard about to make a critical business decision but pausing to ask a question?—?“Can

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

The basic idea of the framework is to use an economic metric such as gross margin as the optimization objective and consider it a function of possible retailer’s actions such as marketing campaigns or assortment adjustments. Moreover, gross margin is not the only performance metric that is important for retailers. The model (2.1)

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Investing in Strategic Capability versus Buying Tactical Capacity

The Agile Manager

The cost efficiencies achieved through global sourcing face a triple threat to their fundamentals: The USD has eroded in value relative to other currencies in the past 6 years 1 – this means the USD doesn’t buy as much global sourcing capacity as it did 6 years ago, particularly vis-à-vis its peer consumer currencies.

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IT Governance Maximises IT Returns

The Agile Manager

So it is with IT projects: an extremely efficient IT project will still fail if it is blindsided because a market doesn’t materialise for the solution being developed. Do you have a complete set of process metrics established with your suppliers? To what degree of certainty do you trust the data you receive for those metrics?