Volume, Velocity, Variety, and Veracity. Volume: Enterprises are awash with ever-growing data of all types, easily amassing terabytes—even petabytes—of information. Turn 12 terabytes of Tweets created each day into improved product sentiment analysis Convert 350 billion annual meter readings to better predict power consumption Velocity: Sometimes 2 minutes is too late. For time-sensitive processes such as catching fraud, big data must be used as it streams into your enterprise in order to maximize
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48 percent are able to spend their money on their own, the rest are dependant upon spouses or other family members to take joint decisions on spending. Defining this variable as a measure of empowerment, this analysis investigates correlates of empowerment using logistic regression analysis. The model finds that marital status is the most significant predictor of empowerment in Bangladesh. Unmarried women are six times more likely to be empowered. Secondary education is another major determinant
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See discussions, stats, and author profiles for this publication at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/272028153 The effect of involvement on visual attention and product choice ARTICLE in JOURNAL OF RETAILING AND CONSUMER SERVICES · MAY 2015 DOI: 10.1016/j.jretconser.2015.01.002 CITATIONS READS 3 143 4 AUTHORS, INCLUDING: Bridget K. Behe Patricia Huddleston Michigan State University Michigan State University 133 PUBLICATIONS 578 CITATIONS 46 PUBLICATIONS
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FACTORS INFLUENCING CONSUMERS’ LAPTOP PURCHASES Dr. V. Aslıhan Nasır, Sema Yoruker, Figen Güneş and Yeliz Ozdemir Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey ABSTRACT The rapid developments in IT sector accompanied by increased competition and acquisitions and mergers in the market, lead both academicians and practitioners to concentrate on the consumers’ purchase decisions in portable PC industry. The NDP group’s report published by PC World state that in May 2003, U.S. retailers
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Strategic Plan Part II SWOTT Analysis Whenever someone starts a brand new company they will need to create a strategy plan that will give directions on how to build strengths, weaknesses, opportunities before the company comes out into the market world. If there is an understanding of the business SWOTT , it will help a lot the understanding and development of any strategy plan and it will Gide them to prepare for unforeseen problems that will come out with any internal and external environment
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activities to attract job applicants. Specifically, signaling theory suggests that a firm’s CSP sends signals to prospective job applicants about what it would be like to work for a firm. Social identity theory suggests that job applicants have higher self-images when working for socially responsive firms over their less responsive counterparts. The authors conducted an experiment in which they manipulated CSP and found that prospective job applicants are more likely to
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Importance of environmental analysis Introduction No single organization can exist in a vacuum. For a successful business operation, an organisation needs to interact with various other actors and players around it. These may range from political institutions to other business and financial institutions. These institutions are called environment of an organisation. In this assignment, we would try to illustrate the importance of environmental analysis for a business organisation. The conceptualisation
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SWOT Analysis Yadira Saunders BUS/211 July 13, 2015 Professor Suzanne Remedies SWOT Analysis With today’s economy taking a toll on many families and individuals lifestyle, it is becoming even more difficult to convince consumers that you, as a business, are what they are looking for. As both economy and business markets rise and fall in nature, businesses must determine “the major goals of the organization and the policies and strategies for obtaining and using resources to achieve those
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Firms Strategies to Stay Competitive in the Market Table of Content ......................................... -2- Introduction ................................................ -3- Differentiation Strategy ................................ -4- Benefits & Challenges of Differentiation Strategy .................... -5- Apple ..................................................................................... -6- Low Cost Strategy .............................................
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The Use of Dummy Variables in Regression Analysis By Smita Skrivanek, Principal Statistician, MoreSteam.com LLC What is a Dummy variable? A Dummy variable or Indicator Variable is an artificial variable created to represent an attribute with two or more distinct categories/levels. Why is it used? Regression analysis treats all independent (X) variables in the analysis as numerical. Numerical variables are interval or ratio scale variables whose values are directly comparable, e.g. ‘10 is twice
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