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Making management enthusiastic about decision support software
If extensions to your business modeling activities depend on convincing upper management of the utility of business decision support software, then a few ‘selling’ tips may help.
Operational risk scenario analysis & the bullwhip effect
If you’ve ever experienced a small change at the retailing end of a supply chain that provokes massive turbulence upstream, there’s a good chance you’ve suffered the bullwhip ...
Finding out what you don’t know with sensitivity analysis
Remember Donald Rumsfeld’s speech from 2007 on the things we know and the things we don’t? How about some uncertainty or importance analysis to go with that?
Deterministic or Stochastic – Which business modeling should you present?
Aaah… if only someone had written a program to automatically choose the type of modeling for any given business situation. Perhaps somebody has and it is buried somewhere ...
5 mistakes to avoid if you want to make good quantitative risk assessments
Numbers don’t lie. It’s the people using them that are responsible for falsehoods, distortions, or simply mistakes! Yet numbers have several attractions: you can compare them ...
Business modeling needs more than spreadsheet dinosaurs
Huge body, tiny brain. Those were prominent characteristics of dinosaurs and part of their DNA. Those that were unable to cope with changes died out, although they had a good run ...
Estimation of mutual information
A measure of association is a function that rates the strength of statistical dependence between two variables. In casual talk, people often express this idea by asserting that ...
Never tell me the odds?
In my last post, I discussed the meaning of expected value (EV) and how it’s useful for comparing the values of choices we could make when the outcomes we face with each choice ...
