Tracking work habits without losing sight of results
Make useful progress visible, choose measures that reflect the purpose of the work and build a practical restart plan for routines that get interrupted.
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Systems
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Articles tagged Systems
Turning business data into decisions: customer, operations and quality data for small firms, used responsibly
How small businesses can capture and use customer, sales, operations and quality data with CRM and ERP tools, start from questions, protect privacy and security, and avoid common traps.
10 min read
Turning professional values into repeatable habits
Translate the kind of professional you want to be into observable actions, build evidence through repetition and keep your working identity flexible as responsibilities change.
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Understanding customer behaviour and spotting trends: buying patterns, everyday habits and responsible use of data
How small businesses can understand customer buying patterns, use everyday habits creatively, spot trends early with simple tools, adapt their model and use customer data responsibly.
10 min read
US GAAP and Australian standards: key differences for investments and groups
Australian standards follow IFRS; much international material follows US GAAP. Where the two differ for equity investments, associates, control, business combinations and goodwill, and why it matters.
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Using commitments and automation to support good work
Use advance commitments and carefully chosen automation to support recurring work, with clear ownership, useful checks and a practical way to handle exceptions.
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What control means: parents, subsidiaries and who must consolidate
Control decides whether one entity must include another in its group accounts. How control is assessed through votes, rights and exposure to returns, including indirect ownership.
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From automata to algorithms: a short history of automated decision making
How economics, psychology, neuroscience, computer science, engineering, mathematics and operations research each contributed to the methods machines use to make decisions.
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Acting when you can't see everything: beliefs, filters and partial observability
Many decisions must be made without knowing the true situation. How beliefs, Bayesian filters, Kalman and particle filters and belief-state planning handle partial observability.
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Bayesian networks: mapping how causes and evidence connect
Bayesian networks represent uncertain relationships as a map of influences. How they work, how they support diagnosis and prediction, and what they can and cannot tell you about cause and effect.
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Be careful what you reward: designing objectives for decisions
Automated systems and people both optimise what they are measured on. How objectives go wrong, how to balance multiple goals with trade-off analysis, and how to design rewards and KPIs that work.
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Shared goals, separate views: how teams coordinate without full information
When team members share a goal but each sees only part of the picture, coordination is surprisingly hard. Lessons from collaborative agents research for designing teams, roles and communication.
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