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Effective Machine Learning Needs Leadership — Not AI Hype
 Originally published in BigThink, Feb 12, 2024.  Excerpted from The...
Today’s AI Won’t Radically Transform Society, But It’s Already Reshaping Business
 Originally published in Fast Company, Jan 5, 2024. Eric...
Calculating Customer Potential with Share of Wallet
 No question about it: We, as consumers have our...
A University Curriculum Supplement to Teach a Business Framework for ML Deployment
    In 2023, as a visiting analytics professor...

Metrics

Whole Foods is Reportedly Using a Heat Map to Track Stores at Risk of Unionization

 Originally published in The Verge, April 20, 2020 The heat map apparently uses more than two dozen different metrics to track which Whole Foods stores may unionize. The heat map focuses on monitoring three main areas: “external risks,” “store risks,” and “team member sentiment,” according to Business Insider. Here are some examples of “external risks,”

Employee Life Time Value and Cost Modeling – Part 3

 Employee Tenure in a “Survival Analytics” Framework With a cumulative cost curve in hand, we now turn to evaluate attrition. We hope to illustrate a far more intuitive and useful visualization than the popular business metric, annual...

HR Ranks at the Bottom — Reasons to Adopt Metrics and Predictive Analytics

 When you survey the most frequent users of analytics and metrics in the corporate world, not surprisingly you find that HR ranks at the very bottom. Compared to finance, which is ranked No. 1, HR compares poorly...

Best Thinker Webinar: Making Predictive Analytics Productive

 This week we held another webinar in our Best Thinker webinar series, this time on the topic of Predictive Analytics.  The webinar included speakers such as Eric Siegel, the founder of Predictive Analytics World and author of...