7 Powerful Analysis Techniques to Boost Value from Your Models

Jan 13, 2019

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Strategists, architects, process experts, software developers, data managers and other professionals involved in changing the enterprise often put substantial effort in creating all kinds of useful models of their designs. In many cases, such business models, enterprise architecture models, business...

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