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Category: Business & finance

Find models that represent the various aspects of a business, such as its operations, marketing, and sales. Financial modeling involves using historical financial data and other relevant information to create projections of future financial performance, such as revenue, expenses, profits, and cash flow. These analyses can help you plan for the future, make investment decisions, evaluate the impact of different business scenarios, understand how different factors affect overall performance, and identify areas where you can improve efficiency and profitability for yourself or your organization.

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10/15/2013 | Blogs, Business & finance, Risk & uncertainty

Is risk assessment risky business?

As if risks in general weren’t enough, the question is now about the quality of the risk assessment itself. Even more daunting, lists of ‘mistakes in risk assessment’ have been …

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10/08/2013 | Blogs, Business & finance, Risk & uncertainty

Operational risk (OR) scenario analysis: if modeling processes & systems are difficult, try people

Operational risk scenario analysis may sound like a mouthful, but here’s what it’s all about. Firstly, operational risk is the risk to a business of loss from processes, systems …

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10/01/2013 | Blogs, Business & finance

Business process re-engineering: what’s old is new again

Many business philosophies rise and fall in popularity, and business process reengineering (BPR) is one of them. Publicized and promoted in the early 1990s, its fundamental …

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09/25/2013 | Blogs, Business & finance

Decision support software limitations & how to overcome them

Spending money on decision support software may not be the issue; even if getting value for money is typically a priority. Accepting that decision support software may not be …

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09/20/2013 | Blogs, Business & finance, Risk & uncertainty

Financial modeling & the speculator with deep pockets

In the financial modeling of global business, the perfect market is well-known paradigm. This is a market in which buyers and sellers have full information about the good or …

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09/11/2013 | Blogs, Business & finance, Risk & uncertainty

Business impact analysis for disaster recovery planning & beyond

Business impact analysis (BIA) is a stage in the disaster recovery planning process, in which organizations seek to prepare for business interruptions with a plan to surmount …

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09/06/2013 | Blogs, Business & finance, Decision analysis & multi-criteria, Modeling tips & tricks

Business modeling: keeping up with a moving target

Tomorrow, today’s business model will be yesterday’s. Behind that self-evident observation lies an uncomfortable fact. The rate of change of such models has accelerated over …

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09/05/2013 | Blogs, Business & finance

Business modeling: the sandbox theory & cybernetics

In IT, the term ‘sandbox’ is used to denote a computing environment specifically designed for experimentation or test of a program, without the risk of malfunction then affecting …

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