Word: predictabilities
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...like Accenture; outsourcers like EDS; and software players like BEA, Oracle and Microsoft. Its competitors snort that IBM simply glues together a hodgepodge of inferior systems--all too often pushing its own--and then charges big bucks to have its consultants keep them from breaking down, an approach they predict will soon lose its appeal. IBM's strategy "is an acknowledgment that the very technology it has been peddling all these years has been tremendously complex and expensive," says Barry Goffe, a group manager at Microsoft. Palmisano is quick to fire back at rivals, who have pushed their expensive, "best...
...cloth napkins. Like thousands of other Parisians mobbing the stores during the after-Christmas sales, Andriavaloherinaiva is braving not just France's frosty weather but an equally chilly economic climate in his pursuit of a bargain. He is unfazed by the downturn that has led some economists to predict France's GDP growth could be as low as .9% in 2003. "I'm not worried," he says. "I still have the same spending pattern as always." But many government and industry types are plenty worried. Beset by feeble growth and preoccupied with the possibility of war with Iraq, the euro...
...them won't be. Wal-Mart's next competitive weapon is advanced data mining, which it will use to forecast, replenish and merchandise on a micro scale. By analyzing years' worth of sales data--and then cranking in variables such as the weather and school schedules--the system could predict the optimal number of cases of Gatorade, in what flavors and sizes, a store in Laredo, Texas, should have on hand the Friday before Labor Day. Then, if the weather forecast suddenly called for temperatures 5 hotter than last year, the delivery truck would automatically show up with more...
...mining, which it will use to forecast, replenish and merchandise on a micro scale, so that even stores close to one another could have substantially different offerings. By analyzing years' worth of sales data - and then cranking in variables such as the weather and school schedules - the system could predict the optimal number of cases of Lucozade, in what flavors and sizes, a store in Canterbury should have on hand the Friday before a bank holiday. If the weather forecast suddenly called for temperatures 5C hotter than last year, the delivery truck would automatically show up with more. The company...
...rising stock market to a healthy economy, the stock market must actually rise. And it must keep rising. The markets have spiked upwards in the few days since Bush's plans became public. But they could sag just as quickly. As Robert Rubin used to say when asked to predict Wall Street trends: "Markets go up, markets go down...