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

Speed Curve

JUNE 14, 2021

Then in 2008, while I was helping an educational publisher launch their elearning platform (and running into the familiar challenges of how do you build and deliver rich content over the internet) I came across Steve Souders’s first book, High Performance Web Sites. I think that was the point I became hooked!

Retail 52

Retail Internet Internet Education 52

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

MAY 31, 2020

As a result, the race to improve digital capabilities for small merchants is now on, so there is reason to expect that considerably more innovation will be accessible to small merchants on a metered rather than a R&D basis. From a certain point of view, a lot of banks were nationalized by governments in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis.

Airlines 52

Airlines Government Hardware Technology 52

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 Transportation 52

SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

Intel server processors have historically delivered significantly better single-threaded CPU performance and lower power consumption than competing AMD processors since the Intel Nehalem microarchitecture in 2008. Intel became complacent over the past ten years, and ended up opening up a large opportunity for AMD.

Servers 46

Servers Hardware Architecture Retail 46