Are you struggling to keep the models that inform your company’s decision-making up-to-date with rapidly changing business and economic conditions? If you depend on spreadsheets or enterprise business intelligence and planning tools for forecasting, budgeting, planning, and other financial and operational modeling, then you have probably been spending too much time reworking them and not enough time managing events. Models that you trusted only months ago are now perceived as irrelevant, or worse, as a liability, because they could lead to seriously flawed actions. Unfortunately, spreadsheets and BI and planning tools become increasingly rigid after time and don’t allow you to quickly answer the “what if” questions for making future-critical decisions. Relying on these models becomes a real hindrance as you seek to understand and realign to new business realities.
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Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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