Highly Scalable

MARCH 10, 2015

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.

Retail 152

Retail C++ Analytics Metrics 152

The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2022

From roughly 2008 until 2019 or so, real estate in this area was inexpensive, a long-lived aftereffect of the 2008 financial crisis (fewer buyers) as well as changes in where and how people vacationed (fewer tourists). Unsurprisingly, some flashpoints have emerged. COVID-19 changed this. Let’s start with detection.

Government 59

Government Retail Games Storage 59

The Agile Manager

APRIL 30, 2020

Both the financial and real economies have suffered quite a few shocks in the last 20 years: the dot-com bubble bursting (2000); September 11 (2001); the Great Recession (2008); and today in 2020 the COVID-19 crisis is wreaking economic havoc. It was much different in 2008.

Social Media 52

Social Media Innovation Internet Internet 52

The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2021

Shippers, facing excessive capacity after the financial crisis of 2008, either went out of business, merged, or did deals to fill their ships to capacity. 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.

Transportation 52

Transportation Retail Traffic Efficiency 52

The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

A mobile phone company makes handsets for users and curates an app market place for developers. There are a number of self-proclaimed commercial ecosystems, ranging from online lending to conglomerates of retail, credit and loyalty. We can stand up marketplaces for mobile phone software or money lending or property investing.

Energy 40

Energy Retail Mobile Software 40

The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2020

Twined with the radical reduction of information asymmetry (particularly with regard to product price data), it stands to reason that there has been significant productivity growth in western economies: supply chains have never been so optimized, retail and wholesale transactions so price-fair and friction-free.

Energy 52

Energy Government Entertainment Innovation 52

The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Think about policy renewal operations at insurance companies, or specialized software developers working in silos: they are information workers, but they are on an information assembly line, doing piecework and passing it onto the next person. "[Big Brain cells connect via trillions of synapses in adaptable and complex ways.

Education 45

Education Best Practices Retail Network 45