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Data Mining Problems in Retail

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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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The Management Revolution that Never Happened

The Agile Manager

Wall Street Journal, 24 December 2007. Microcomputers improved the efficiency of data collection and made it easy to consolidate operational data. A 2007 column in the WSJ pointed out that management by objective and total quality management have been replaced by a new trend: management by data.

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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. That the buyer in the auction might have been the firm itself would obviously destroy that perception, but it is obfuscated from the retail consumer. 3 Meichtry, Stacy.

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The Ever Given is Not a Black Swan Event

The Agile Manager

Though supremely efficient at sea, Emma and the even larger ships that followed in her wake became a nightmare. Optimization of the oceangoing containership fleet came at the cost of the efficiency of the rest of the supply chain into which it was integrated. In other words it creates devastating Black Swans.”