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White paper: Actionable Information for Business Optimization

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Overview We live and work in a fast-moving and dynamic world, caught between a host of conflicting demands on our time and attention. Against this backdrop we're called on to boil an ocean of information in order to support the decisions that we have to make on an hour-by-hour basis.

In this paper Gary Barnett (a Partner with the Bathwick Group) and Greg Milwid (a Manager within IBM's Software group) discuss the challenges we face when it comes to ensuring that we have the right information, in the right format and context, and at the right time in order to make the right decisions.

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Publisher	IBM	File Format	PDF
Date Published	October 2007
Format	White Papers
Topics	Decision Support - DW Front End, Data Mining - Analysis, Data Quality, Strategic Planning

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