This article was originaly posted at Forbes.com by First Analytics chairman and cofounder, Tom Davenport. XREA and First Analytics are partners, as announced here. ---- During the Information Age, many companies pulled together data from public and private sources and…
Many have touted the inclusion of data from outside the firm as a way to improve forecast accuracy. The idea is that, with the incorporation of more information to explain the demand signal, forecasts are bound to be better. In…
This is a re-post of an article originally by First Analytics Chairman Tom Davenport. More of Tom's articles can be found here. One of the key attributes of the lean startup approach popularized by Steve Blank and Eric Ries is…