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Business Intelligence and Analytics: Systems for Decision Support (10th Edition) Chapter 1: An Overview of Business Intelligence‚ Analytics‚ and Decision Support -2 Learning Objectives Understand today’s turbulent business environment and describe how organizations survive and even excel in such an environment (solving problems and exploiting opportunities) Understand the need for computerized support of managerial decision making Understand an early framework for managerial decision
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Marketing 465-Test 1 Review *Definition of CRM (ch. 1) -- practice of analyzing and utilizing marketing databases and leveraging communication technologies to determine corporate practices and methods that will maximize the lifetime value of each individual customer to the firm Definition from Perils Article: CRM aligns business processes with customer strategies to build customer loyalty and increase profits over time. *Definition of Strategic CRM (ch. 3) -- business strategy and company-level
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In 2008 when Howard Schultz returned to CEO position‚ company had to change its HRM policy drastically. While losing money‚ Schultz decided to reduce his salary to $1 and totally cut off management bonuses due to a financial poor performance. Moneyball at Starbucks‚ these words were said by head of HR at Starbucks‚ meaning he wants to use analytics to improve company competitiveness‚ as it was done by Oakland Baseball team for the first time in US and worked very well. The major difference was
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From the beginning of the movie we can tell that the Oakland Athletics have many symptoms. Right away we can see that in 2001 Oakland lost the ALCS and immediately after the team switches gears into how they are losing their three big players. Both of these are symptoms. Another one is the fact that they do not have the funds to get these contracts back. When Billy goes to the owner about this he tells him he has no more money for him. Next we have the fact that the scouts and managers do not follow
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are trying to evaluate people through interview or internship in order to reduce the risk of hiring a less productive worker and some firms would like to pay a higher wage for the famous instead of trying the fresh due to the risk. In the movie “Moneyball”‚ Billy Beane works as a general manager for one small-market baseball team of MLB which is not wealth enough to hire the best hitters like the New York Yankees or Boston Red Sox. Beane breaks the traditional way of hiring and seeks the lowercost
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A Collateralized Debt Obligation or CDO is (according to The Big Short) a lumping together of many different loans into one big loan. And the market crashed in 2008 primarily because many of these CDOs were full of loans that should have been rated poorly‚ but due to a combination of greed‚ stupidity‚ and fear‚ the CDOs were rated at the highest possible rating‚ a AAA. Think of The Big Short as a CDO. It is a mixture of ideas from lots of better movies‚ all lumped together‚ and it desperately wants
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Adaptations can be seen all over movies and television today. Lincoln‚ Schindler’s List‚ Apollo 13‚ Braveheart‚ Pocahontas‚ Amistad‚ Miracle‚ The Rookie‚ JFK‚ Titanic‚ Troy‚ 127 Hours‚ the Fighter‚ Invictus‚ the Kings Speech‚ the Social Network‚ Moneyball‚ Argo‚ Saving Mr. Banks‚ and Jobs are only a few titles in the library of adaptations made today. Although there are many remakes are in the modern day‚ there are many recreations from long ago as well. An often mentioned early American literary
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unrealistic lifestyles such as those depicted in the dark comedy Wolf of Wall Street balance out the simple family life represented in The Kids Are Alright. Sci-fi films such as Inception take us to other dimensions‚ while biographical dramas such as Moneyball ground us back on the baseball field. All of these stories are extraordinary in their own ways‚ but the wide array of characters and narratives that they depict creates the sense that white people are multi-dimensional. This normalizes the white
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America’s biggest gambling epicenter isn’t Las Vegas‚ it’s in New York City‚ right on Wall Street. In what other situation can you walk away from a losing hand and still make tens of millions of dollars? This very thing happened in 2008 and very few people were able to see it coming despite being the cause of it. In Michael Lewis’ book‚ The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine‚ he tells the story of several men who were able to predict the fall of the stock market many years before it happened
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