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Why Scaling Agile is Essential for Your Organization | Analyst Catalyst Blog

Analyst Catalyst Blog

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Velocity & User Stories – Too Many Teams Are Looking At It Wrong!

BA Squared

Velocity – What Does It Really Mean? Ask just about any agile team what metrics they track and “velocity” comes out. Teams rally around increasing their velocity, focusing on speed and hanging their team successes on this metric. Additionally, many teams report their velocity increase to leadership claiming agile success! Some may even go as far as comparing and benchmarking against other teams.

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White Paper – Integrate Augmented Analytics And Digital Transformation To Achieve Continuous Business Improvement

ElegantJ BI

Wise business managers are embracing the Digital Transformation initiative in an effort to improve accuracy, productivity and the integration of technology and analytics within the organization. Augmented Analytics is a logical and critical addition to the Dx initiative and will significantly enhance the success of the Digital Transformation agenda.

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The role of UX research now and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic

Userzoom

There has never been a challenge like COVID-19. Not just for businesses, but for every individual. Some organisations have had revenues decimated, traffic come to a halt, markets practically vanish, supply chains cut off, conversion rates fluctuate like never before, and of course mass furloughing. I’m in the unusual position of seeing directly (and indirectly) how hundreds of businesses’ digital departments across different industries have reacted to COVID-19, through my role as a U

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Reduce Bias in Hiring: Structured Interview Questions for Employers

Structured interview questions are a valuable tool for reducing bias in hiring. They help: Ensure all candidates are asked the same questions in the same way Level the playing field so all candidates have a fair chance of being successful Improve credibility, reliability, and validity Download the guide to get the most out of your interview questions!

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Why Scaling Agile is Essential for Your Organization | Analyst Catalyst Blog

Analyst Catalyst Blog

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White Paper: Integrate Augmented Analytics And Digital Transformation To Achieve Continuous Business Improvement

ElegantJ BI

Wise business managers are embracing the Digital Transformation initiative in an effort to improve accuracy, productivity and the integration of technology and analytics within the organization. Augmented Analytics is a logical and critical addition to the Dx initiative and will significantly enhance the success of the Digital Transformation agenda.

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Delivering More Impactful Insights From Your Cloud Data

Sisense

Blog. Every company is becoming a data company. In Data-Powered Businesses , we dive into the ways that companies of all kinds are digitally transforming to make smarter data-driven decisions, monetize their data, and create companies that will thrive in our current era of Big Data. The way businesses operate is constantly evolving. The pressure is on for organizations of all shapes, sizes, and missions to make decisions at speed and scale — and collaborate in real-time.

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5 Benefits of Specialized Certification | Analyst Catalyst Blog

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Mobile BI dashboards help ICU Medical change decision-making process

Phocas

ICU Medical is a leading global medical devices and accessories company selling medical devices for oncology, vascular therapy and critical care. The company has thousands of products in its portfolio so turned to industry-specific business intelligence software to track its business performance. Creating mobile BI dashboards has significantly changed the way ICU do business because now everyone has access to accurate real-time data; decision-making is the responsibility of all.

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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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White Paper: Integrate Augmented Analytics And Digital Transformation To Achieve Continuous Business Improvement

ElegantJ BI

Wise business managers are embracing the Digital Transformation initiative in an effort to improve accuracy, productivity and the integration of technology and analytics within the organization. Augmented Analytics is a logical and critical addition to the Dx initiative and will significantly enhance the success of the Digital Transformation agenda.

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How to Turn Your Existing Data Into New Revenue

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Blog. Time to make your data work for you. In Hacking the Analytic App Economy , we show you how to build a data monetization strategy that leverages your company’s data to open new revenue opportunities, drive value, and help you thrive in the new era of analytic apps. What makes the world’s most innovative and successful companies different from the rest?

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Unveiling the Agile Operating Model

Leading Agile

New strategies or dramatic shifts in existing strategies require an examination of an organization’s operating model. Agile is a new business paradigm, but few established companies understand what needs to change to make their business Agile. Most think it is about speed and flexibility. They forget about efficiency and resiliency, key fundamentals without which companies fail to achieve their desired speed.

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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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Dynamic vs static financial reporting:key differences

Phocas

Managers can no longer afford to wait for weekly or monthly financial reports to review business performance; they need to make decisions immediately. Despite this, many businesses are still reporting financial statements in the traditional way — as static PDFs circulated amongst a small group of people. If a stakeholder has any questions about the figures, finding more information from a static report can be difficult as the answers often lie in the data behind the numbers.

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Role and Responsibility of An Enterprise Agile Coach

Agilemania

The Enterprise Coaching for Agility is an emerging field as Agile implementations have expanded beyond the individual team level to consider all manner of organizational challenges. Enterprise Coaching consists of a set of skills which enable practitioners to catalyse the adaptation and transformation of organizational agility in alignment with the organization’s vision, goals and needs in today’s UVCA world.

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How Project Leaders Can Guide Their Projects Through Times of Change

The Uncommon League

One thing you can absolutely count on when managing projects is change. It is inevitable that you will confront at least one — and more likely many — changes throughout a project. Some of these you won’t be able to anticipate, like a pandemic, but most you can plan for. How you handle those changes will be a key factor in the success of a project. “In today’s dynamic and competitive world, a project manager’s key challenge is coping with frequent unexpected events,” writes Alexander Laufer , dir

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Everything You Need To Know About SSRS Subscriptions

Christian Steven

Automate, Schedule & Deploy SSRS Data Driven Subscriptions. Hundreds of companies of varying verticals and sizes rely on SQL Server’s reporting system. Known as SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) , it is used to design and generate reports on a scheduled or adhoc basis. SSRS has a basic scheduler designed for simple automated report distribution, but what if your business requires complex event driven and data driven subscriptions?

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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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5 Ways to Increase the Productivity of Your Customer Support Team

GlowTouch

Share this entry Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pinterest Share on LinkedIn Share by Mail 5 Ways to Increase the Productivity of Your Customer Support Team. Businesses endeavour to improve sales by earning customer loyalty and creating a brand image through quality support. As a customer support leader, it’s essential to ensure that every customer support agent provides fast, reliable and quality support.

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What is TypeScript and why should you care?

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Last week, we had a Lunch & Learn session on Zoom, which is basically a learning/sharing type of online workshop. Every week, we encourage colleagues to share their insight into different topics that we can all learn from. I hosted this “Intro to TypeScript” workshop for those of us who’ve never used it before and I thought it would be a great read for our online audience as well.

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Business Analysts Mentoring

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by Business Analysis (BAPL). Working on projects for a specialist Business Analysts provider, Business Analysis (BAPL), I often find myself working alongside people looking for a new career path and showing interest into becoming a Business Analyst. I also work with BAs with a variety of levels of experience and, for me, I am always interested in networking and seeing how other BAs work.

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Crystal Reports Scheduler

Christian Steven

Crystal Reports Scheduler: Select, Format, Schedule, and Deliver! CRD® (Crystal Reports Distributor) is a Crystal Reports Scheduler that saves time and money by making it easy to automate Crystal reports. Crystal Reports scheduling is easy. Just define single or packages of Crystal Reports®, schedule, run them automatically and send the reports to print, fax, folder, FTP, SMS, DropBox, Sharepoint & email in a number of standard formats including Excel, Word, PDF, RPT and more.

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The HR Leader’s Survival Guide

HR leaders drowning in paperwork struggle to meet C-suite's strategic expectations. Burnout and high turnover plague the field, with 95% feeling overwhelmed. This guide explores how the right tools can free HR from admin tasks and empower them to become the strategic leaders they’re meant to be.

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The Dark Side of a Successful Agile Implementation

Agilemania

A product company decides to gain back it’s lost glory and get back up at the roost which they felt was their rightful place. This is a company that once revolutionized the domain they belonged to, a company people longed to be associated with, be it as a customer or be it as an employee. Everything was going good and… The post The Dark Side of a Successful Agile Implementation appeared first on Agilemania.

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Time Series Analysis: Definition, Benefits, Models

Pestle Analysis

What Is Time Series Analysis and how does it benefit a data analyst? We look at a number of models may be employed to help describe time series.

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Research Studies Reveal Shortcomings in Many Data Literacy Projects: Don’t Let This Happen to You!

ElegantJ BI

Data Literacy is a hot topic in business today. As businesses struggle to remain competitive and to do more with less, every enterprise is looking for a way to optimize resources, and to get the most out of every team member. To do that, the business management team must leverage the knowledge and skills of each team member as those skills relate to their role and their responsibilities.

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Everything You Need to Know About Business Intelligence

Christian Steven

Informative Stats: The Growth and Value of Business Intelligence. The first known usage of the term “ business intelligence ” was by Richard Millar Devens in 1865. It was not until 1989 when Gartner analyst Howard Dresner again brought the phrase “business intelligence” into common terminology. As business intelligence became a commonly known phrase in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s, an abundance of new vendors joined the market.

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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.