Home Care Is Growing. Is Your Data Ready to Keep Up?

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This article was originally published on LinkedIn. The demand for home care isn’t slowing down, but as more people need care, providers are facing a big question: Will they have the workforce and resources to keep up? A new report from PHI National shows that the direct-care workforce has grown to nearly 5.8 million workers. […]

Analytics – A Sun Tzu Perspective

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Many of Sun Tzu’s writings have been adapted in a number of industries such as investing, real estate, and sales. However, the application of Sun Tzu to analytics is especially interesting and insightful because it plays such as significant role in successful analytics projects. Sun Tzu said, “There are five dangerous faults which may affect a … Continue reading Analytics – A Sun Tzu Perspective →

3 Major Concerns for Revenue Forecasting

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Revenue Forecasting presents a major challenge for companies, especially in finance and marketing. Erroneous forecasts can be disastrous for a companies bottom line, especially when money is spent in anticipation of higher revenues. While the challenges are numerous, there are some actions a department can take to ensure their forecasts are accurate and continue to … Continue reading 3 Major Concerns for Revenue Forecasting →

Top 3 Reasons Why Analytics Projects Fail

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Analytics projects can be very complex and require an appropriate level of expertise. The various stages of an analytics project incude determination of goals, collection of data, cleansing of data, statistical analysis, and presentation of findings. According to Gartner over half of the analytics projects fail, which is determined as a project that fails to … Continue reading Top 3 Reasons Why Analytics Projects Fail →

STOP! – Understand and Apply Growth Curves Correctly

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Growth curves are a critical part of many different disciplines including the physical disciplines, however, many business,  with the exclusion of financial companies, tend to neglect growth curves due to the preference of simpler, easy to implement linear lines. They are often misunderstood and when incorrectly applied,  lead to very divergent results. If used properly, however,  they are a great way … Continue reading STOP! – Understand and Apply Growth Curves Correctly →