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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

Retail is one of the most important business domains for data science and data mining applications because of its prolific data and numerous optimization problems such as optimal prices, discounts, recommendations, and stock levels that can be solved using data analysis methods. However, many of these models are highly parametric (i.e.

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IT Governance Maximises IT Returns

The Agile Manager

This wording is intentional: how work is performed reduces the probability of failure. If the governance imperative is to understand that results are being achieved in addition to knowing how they are being achieved, we must consider another key point: what must we do to know with certainty how work is being performed?

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Mitigating Capability Risk

The Agile Manager

Execution risk is not simply the risk that things don't get done; e.g., that excessive days out of office prevent people from performing tasks by specific dates. Breakaway opportunities tend also to be highly sensitive to non-functional requirements, such as performance, scalability and security. They implode on themselves.