Case study: Business Process Modeling as a basis for defining Key Performance Indicators

Case study: Business Process Modeling as a basis for defining Key Performance Indicators

I recently completed a project where we modeled business processes for the Surveying and Mapping Authority in Slovenia and I co-authored and presented a paper about it at the Slovenian Society Informatika annual conference in April 2019. Some of the main benefits of this project that we outlined in the paper were: Business process modeling was performed for future business processes which coerced us to think in detail about how we want to perform activities in a more streamlined, consistent and fully automated way in the future. The completed business process models were used as input to derive specifications for a new information system that will be built to support the new processes. Business process modeling included identifying activities and assigning actors to these activities as well as estimations of expected time spent performing each activity. This in turn was used as input for defining a new leaner and more efficient organizational structure of the Surveying and Mapping Authority. Key...
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Coursera IBM Data Science Professional Certificate

Coursera IBM Data Science Professional Certificate

Recently I came across the IBM Data Science Professional Certificate set of courses on Coursera and I wanted to brush up my data science knowledge. I had taken a similar series of courses some six years ago and the first thing I noticed this time is how much the field has advanced. Six years ago, the language of choice was R, which I never really embraced, mostly because I saw it as an archaic language that has no business in the 21st century. I’m really happy that nowadays it appears that python is the language of choice. I love python, and this is definitely one of the reasons why I enjoyed doing this set of courses. Next topic is Pandas. I hate dataframes. As an SQL person, I find it frustrating that I can’t just simply select and group by and join tables using syntax that comes off the top of my head in seconds. With dataframes, I struggle to do even...
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Case study: Better understanding of mobile users

Case study: Better understanding of mobile users

Mobile operators are aware of the importance of information technology to support their business. Large amounts of data that come in every day are stored in data warehouses and are subsequently used for analyses to better understand their customers, improve their satisfaction and increase loyalty (Slovenian mobile operator case study). -- Article published in Info SRC.SI, Year 2004/Issue 38....
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