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The Value of Value Chain Analysis in Transforming Your Business

N2Growth Blog

Most think of it as positioning a business within its ecosystem. For example, Budgeting and establishing operating procedures could be core activities here; Staff – which contains a collection of core work activities that support staffing activities within a business area. I have a different take on value chain analysis.

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Auditing Algorithms for Bias

Harvard Business Review

Finally, the tool examines the false positive rate across different groups and enforces a user-determined equal rate of false positives across all groups. False positives are one particular form of model error: instances where the model outcome said “yes” when the answer should have been “no.”

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Predictive Medicine Depends on Analytics

Harvard Business Review

Think of the colleges that are increasingly able to identify students at risk of dropping out and intervene before they do. Or lenders’ enhanced abilities to gauge credit risk. They’re also sharing risk. The positions are there for the taking. They are collaborating with (sometimes highly unlikely) partners.