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How business intelligence (BI) helps you avoid delay & boost results
Perception is not always reality. When business intelligence is often perceived by users as a ready-to-use window on their PC screen that will answer all their questions, ...
Experimenting with business analytics
How do you see the business analytics trio of descriptive, predictive and decision analytics? If you see these activities as mechanical IT processes, you may well head off into ...
Saving time, money, and the environment: the growing importance of early-stage energy modeling
Which is better? A model to figure out how much energy you’re wasting, or a model to help you save energy from the outset? In a world that has become energy-conscious to a much ...
Integrated environmental modeling
Real-world problems are interrelated and complex: getting to workable solutions means holistic thinking and collaboration. This is a basic premise of integrated environmental ...
Sensitivity analysis: one at a time or all together?
The whole is greater than the sum of the parts, say Aristotle and Gestalt psychology. The whole effect of combined factors of a model in terms of sensitivity may also be greater ...
Uncertainty analysis & Monte Carlo methods
Uncertainty analysis is often a prominent part of studies for sectors such as the environment. The uncertainty itself is determined by a number of elements.
Can back-testing improve your strategic risk management?
Back testing is a favorite with those who want to test out a plan for the future with real data. The real data for the future are not (of course) yet available, however the data ...
Risk management & VaR: not safe for everybody?
Value at Risk (VaR) rose to fame in answer to a number of financial disasters, including the 1998 failure of Long Term Capital Management. Much of the criticism at the time was ...
