January, 2021

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Four Ways Great BAs Can Start The New Year Right!

BA Squared

Review, Renew, and Reconnect in 2021! Don’t let the new year sneak up on you. Now is the perfect time to follow these four simple ways to start the new year off right, and take charge of what you are getting out of your career and life. Take some time to plan your year! I know this sounds funny, but just like product and project planning, we need to have a vision and intention for the year.

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Your Data Won’t Speak Unless You Ask It The Right Data Analysis Questions

Data Pine

In our cutthroat digital age, the importance of setting the right data analysis questions can define the overall success of a business. It is not just important to gather all the existing information, but to consider the preparation of data and utilize it in the proper way, has become an indispensable value in developing a successful business strategy.

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How to Thrive as a Business Analyst in the New Normal

Analyst Catalyst Blog

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Understanding The Impacts of Social Media: Pros and Cons | Simplilearn

Simplilearn

Information and communication technology has changed rapidly over the past 20 years, with a key development being the emergence of social media. The pace of change is accelerating. For example, the development of mobile technology has played an essential role in shaping the impact of social media. Across the globe, mobile devices dominate in t. Read More.

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The HR Leader’s Workforce Management Guide

In today’s fast-paced business world, effective workforce management (WFM) isn’t just an option—it’s a necessity.

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Customer Data Analytics is Critical to the Future of Account-Based Marketing

Smart Data Collective

We have talked at length about the importance of data analytics in the field of marketing. Data analytics offers many useful insights for companies striving to boost their market share. One of the best applications of data analytics is through enhanced account-based marketing. There are a lot of ways to use big data to get a better understanding of a target customer group, which is a vital part of any marketing strategy.

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Pillars of Data Integrity: The New Business Imperative

Dataversity

Click to learn more about author Amy O’Connor. Innovations in data-driven intelligence continue to power transformation initiatives for modern businesses. While these innovations improve how we collect, store, manipulate, and analyze data, that is not enough to fully leverage data. Being accurate, consistent, and contextual is crucial for unleashing the data’s full potential.

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5 Kinds of Software to Streamline Online Business Processes

BA Times

Inefficient processes can cost your business 20% to 30% of revenue loss every year.Inefficient processes can cost your business 20% to 30% of revenue loss every year.

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Product Ownership Blog Series, Part 1: Value Stream Mapping and Collaborative Games

Analyst Catalyst Blog

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Leveraging Data Science for COVID-19 Vaccine Administration | Simplilearn

Simplilearn

Globally, over 30 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccination have been dispensed throughout 43 countries. In the U.S., over nine million people have had at least one COVID-19 vaccination as of January 12, 2021, with 541,000 people completely vaccinated. As the global COVID-19 rollout continues to unfold, the challenge of vaccine administration. Read More.

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Business Valuation Software: Free Guide to Valutico Platform

Explore our free guide to Valutico, the platform that revolutionizes automated report generation, offers access to 1 million M&A transactions, enables quick benchmarking, and streamlines the entire valuation process. With Valutico, you gain access to: 30-Minute Valuations: Rapidly producing accurate results. 3TB of Financial Data: The expansive data you need at your fingertips.

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Big Data Plays Key Role in Helping Satellites Get Launched into Orbit

Smart Data Collective

Big data is changing the space race in ways that original founders at NASA and other global space exploration organizations never foresaw decades ago. Miriam Kramer, an author with Axios, talked about the growing number of space companies that are finding new ways to utilize big data. They hope new advances in data technology will help them connect with new markets.

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Giving New Life To Industrial Machinery With Connected Customer Experiences

Timo Elliott

The “Better Together” program is a series of conversations is where I give the microphone to SAP customers and partners for an unfiltered look at how they are innovating with SAP’s Business Technology Platform to unlock business value. The first episode focused on the Gates Corporation and how the company has been able to reinvent their products experience using the latest internet of things technology.

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Data Analytics Will Power a Transformation of Supply Chains in the Post-Pandemic Environment

Dataversity

Click to learn more about author Vikas Mathur. COVID-19 exerted a disruptive impact on virtually every aspect of business across every sector — and supply chains were no exception. In a recent report, Deloitte said the pandemic might be “the black swan event that finally forces many companies, and entire industries, to rethink and transform […].

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How to optimise resources in matrix organizations?

BA Times

Matrix organizations have prevailed for decades, predominantly in multi-project environments.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Product Ownership Blog Series, Part 2: Getting Good at User Story Mapping and Minimum Viable Product

Analyst Catalyst Blog

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Top 9 New Technology Trends for 2021 | Simplilearn

Simplilearn

Technology today is evolving at such a rapid pace, enabling faster change and progress, causing an acceleration of the rate of change, until eventually it will become exponential. However, it is not only technology trends and top technologies that are evolving, a lot more has changed this year due to the outbreak of COVID-19 making IT professionals.

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How Machine Learning Enhances Momentum of Cryptocurrency Price Movements

Smart Data Collective

Cryptocurrencies have become very important in the modern economy. They have also created numerous opportunities for informed investors to create diversified portfolios and take advantage of a market for assets that provide an exceptional ROI. Machine learning technology has made cryptocurrency investing opportunities more lucrative than ever. The impact of machine learning on the market for bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies is multifaceted.

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Moving On From PASS. What’s Next?

Tim Mitchell

The COVID-19 global pandemic was by far the biggest influencer of 2020. This virus has cost over 1.8 million lives worldwide, and has upended normal life and commerce for most everyone. Many thousands of businesses were forced to close, costing millions of jobs. For those of us in the data community, we learned of one additional business casualty just before.

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Maximize Productivity and Simplify IT Management with Conversational AI

ChatGPT has dominated boardroom conversations for months now. From drafting a stock trading program, to creating a SQL query to model data, there are practically no limits to the applications of the AI language model assistant. At ManageEngine, we have been working on our own AI-assistant, Zia. Zia is a fully-trained analytics assistant that can perform a range of functions such as creating and adding reports to dashboards, providing conversational support to data analysis, insight discovery, bu

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Why Now for AI in Manufacturing?

Dataversity

Click to learn more about author Venkat Eswara. Technology always evolves faster than our ability to adapt. AI is becoming mainstream in the consumer and enterprise sectors. So, it’s not a question of if but when AI will become the norm in the manufacturing sector. In fact, it already is. On the one hand, the COVID-19 pandemic has heightened […].

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Be Careful What You Wish For: The Hazards Of Being Target-Focused

BA Times

Be Careful What You Wish For: The Hazards Of Being Target-Focused. Business analysis often focuses on making a situation better. The challenge that I suspect many of us face is that it can be quite difficult to define what ‘better’ actually means, not least because different stakeholders often have very different perspectives. People working on the front-line will have a different set of needs, fears and aspirations compared with the executives who are steering the ship.

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Why Business Analysis is Critical When Navigating a Crisis

Analyst Catalyst Blog

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5 Emerging Machine Learning and AI Trends To Watch in 2021 | Simplilearn

Simplilearn

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are buzzwords that nearly everyone has heard these days. But, even those who aren’t familiar with them encounter these new technologies almost every day. Research shows that 77% of the devices that we currently use have AI built into them. From a bevy of “smart” devices to Netflix recomme. Read More.

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Data-Backed Secrets for Minimizing Discounts & Maximizing ROI Post-Holiday

Use data to turn one-off holiday shoppers into repeat buyers and effortlessly drive more sales throughout the year. Our guide will give you an in-depth understanding of what triggers your customers to buy and breaks down campaign examples from leading B2C brands.

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Blockchain: The Fall of Traditional Centralized Systems in Business & Finance

Smart Data Collective

Blockchain is one of the most important technologies to shape the world. One of the biggest industries that has been affected has been finance. The market for blockchain technology in the financial sector is expected to reach over $3 billion by 2024. The question many experts are asking is: “what factors are driving the growth in blockchain in the financial industry?

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How Microsoft is Reactivating its Workforce During The Pandemic

Timo Elliott

I recently had the opportunity to interview Kurt DelBene , Executive Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Core Services, Engineering and Operations for Microsoft, as part of the SAP Think Tank Initiative , a collaboration by SAP and our global partners to share best practices and lessons learned as organizations try to get back to business in a COVID-19 world.

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Four Ways Embedded BI Brings Productivity into Focus

Dataversity

Click to learn more about author Daniel Jebaraj. The purpose of any enterprise software application is to help businesses be more productive. And given the ever-growing number of applications of every stripe across every industry, you want the applications that you develop and sell to maximize the productivity of your customers. That’s the way to […].

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We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Code: Testing Software Requirements

BA Times

Someone once asked me when you can begin testing software. “As soon as you’ve written your first requirement, you can begin testing,” I replied. It’s hard to visualize how a system will function by reading some requirements. Tests that are based on requirements make the expected system behaviors more tangible. Even the simple act of designing tests reveals many requirements problems long before you can execute those tests on a running system.

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The Young BA

This article focuses on my experience starting as a customer service representative and working myself up to become a lead analyst in my organization. I did not start with many special skills or talents but I wanted to reflect on what did help me.