Business intelligence terms

information assets characterized by such a high volume, velocity, and variety to require specific technology and analytical methods for its transformation into value

thumb|In the 21st century, metadata typically refers to digital forms, but traditional card catalogs contain metadata, with cards holding information about books in a library (author, title, subject, etc.).

a strategic planning technique analyzing strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats faced by an organization or project

In economics, a commodity is an economic good, usually a resource, that specifically has full or substantial fungibility: that is, the market treats instances of the good as equivalent or nearly so with no regard to who produced them.

approach to generating value

term for a group of four emerging national economies

small group of people whose reactions are studied in market research or political analysis

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study of uncertainty in the output of a mathematical model or system

Inventory categorization technique with three categories: "A items" with very tight control and accurate records, "B items" with less tightly controlled and good records, and "C items" with the simplest controls possible and minimal records.

production planning, scheduling, and inventory control system

derogatory acronym for the economies of Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain

collection and analysis of business and market information from multiple sources

automated configuration, coordination, and management of computer systems and software

early stage product design and development technique

information without a formal data model

In process improvement, SIPOC or suppliers, inputs, process, outputs and customers (sometimes in the reversed order: COPIS) is a tool that summarizes the inputs and outputs of one or more business processes in table form, with each of the words forming a column in the table used in the analysis. It is used to define a business process from beginning to end before work on process improvement begins.

processes to manage performance vs. goals

Behavioral economics theory that certain prices have a psychological impact

Management information system supporting decision making

RevPAR, or revenue per available room, is a performance metric in the hotel industry that is calculated by dividing a hotel's total guestroom revenue by the room count and the number of days in the period being measured.

meta reports produced and published by companies, i.e. financial reporting

VRIO (value, rarity, imitability, and organization) is a business analysis framework for strategic management. As a form of internal analysis, VRIO evaluates all the resources and capabilities of a firm.

Description of international competitive advantage

subfield of Quantitative research

process of deriving meaningful insight from geospatial data relationships to solve a particular problem

type of market

gathering and analyzing customer information

type of planning strategy

predictive modelling technique

study of the profitability of a business concept which is to be converted into a business