This document discusses using machine learning to analyze IoT data and calculate the return on investment (ROI) for various use cases. It provides an example ROI case study of using machine learning in manufacturing to increase overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) and lower production costs. The summary outlines how machine learning can be used to predict and prevent quality issues, analyze diagnostic data, and plan for higher quality at lower variable costs. It estimates that plant managers could increase OEE by up to 6% and achieve a target ROI of 175% with payback within one year.
Industrial Energy use analysis best practicies and pitfalsGreenQ Partners
If you buy, sell or implement energy projects in industrial setting, in this presentation you will find how to pick a proper GEAR - Goal-oriented Energy Analysis and Reporting tools.
Presentation explains how to set up energy project to avoid painful disappointments of non-recognition. We also show what not and how not to waste your time, nerves and resources.
With proper GEAR your will do your job faster, with less stress, and secure recognition with executives.
Saving gas and money at industrial bakery through statistical analysisGreenQ Partners
An industrial bakery can benefit from GreenQ Partner's statistical analysis of its natural gas consumption data. The analysis uncovers opportunities to save gas by quantifying the relationship between gas use, production levels, and weather over time. Any changes in this relationship signal efficiency issues or opportunities. The analysis provides a formula to forecast gas needs based on production plans, allowing the bakery to procure gas in advance and save. For a commercial bakery client, the analysis identified maintenance issues saving $11,000, confirmed other savings, and provided a reliable model to connect gas use and production for costing.
Delivering major projects in government presentation,
Joanna Lewis & Chris Battersby,
London
23rd June 2016
The APM Benefits Summit.
APM Benefits Management SIG.
The document outlines strategic integration projects for a manufacturing plant experiencing poor customer service, quality issues, and inefficiencies. It evaluates the company's operations, culture, and projects plans to address problems in delivery, cost, scrap rates, and the plant's financial losses. Specific projects include layout improvements, standard work to boost utilization, converting energy sources, corrective actions, presenting bottleneck solutions, design changes, quality control projects, training, and preparing processes for automation. Metrics will track cost improvements as lean methods are adopted. A growth plan identifies opportunities in new product lines that leverage existing engineering capabilities for increased sales and margins.
This document provides an overview of forecasting. It defines forecasting as a statement about the future value of a variable of interest that is used for planning purposes. It then discusses how forecasts affect decision making across various organizational functions. The document outlines common features of forecasts, such as becoming less accurate over longer time horizons. It also describes different forecasting approaches, like judgmental, time series, and associative modeling. Time series techniques are explained in more detail, including identifying trends, seasonality, and cycles in time-ordered data. Specific time series forecasting methods like moving averages, weighted moving averages, and exponential smoothing are defined. The document concludes with a discussion and example of measuring forecast accuracy.
Chapter 7: systems design: activity-based costing -- assigning overhead costs to products, plant wide overhead rate, departmental overhead rates, designing and abc system, hierarchy of activities, activity-based costing at classic brass, using activity-based costing, direct labor hours as base, computing activity rates, shifting to overhead costs, targeting process improvements, evaluation of activity-based costing, abc and service industries, cost flows in an abc system.
This document discusses using machine learning to analyze IoT data and calculate the return on investment (ROI) for various use cases. It provides an example ROI case study of using machine learning in manufacturing to increase overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) and lower production costs. The summary outlines how machine learning can be used to predict and prevent quality issues, analyze diagnostic data, and plan for higher quality at lower variable costs. It estimates that plant managers could increase OEE by up to 6% and achieve a target ROI of 175% with payback within one year.
Industrial Energy use analysis best practicies and pitfalsGreenQ Partners
If you buy, sell or implement energy projects in industrial setting, in this presentation you will find how to pick a proper GEAR - Goal-oriented Energy Analysis and Reporting tools.
Presentation explains how to set up energy project to avoid painful disappointments of non-recognition. We also show what not and how not to waste your time, nerves and resources.
With proper GEAR your will do your job faster, with less stress, and secure recognition with executives.
Saving gas and money at industrial bakery through statistical analysisGreenQ Partners
An industrial bakery can benefit from GreenQ Partner's statistical analysis of its natural gas consumption data. The analysis uncovers opportunities to save gas by quantifying the relationship between gas use, production levels, and weather over time. Any changes in this relationship signal efficiency issues or opportunities. The analysis provides a formula to forecast gas needs based on production plans, allowing the bakery to procure gas in advance and save. For a commercial bakery client, the analysis identified maintenance issues saving $11,000, confirmed other savings, and provided a reliable model to connect gas use and production for costing.
Delivering major projects in government presentation,
Joanna Lewis & Chris Battersby,
London
23rd June 2016
The APM Benefits Summit.
APM Benefits Management SIG.
The document outlines strategic integration projects for a manufacturing plant experiencing poor customer service, quality issues, and inefficiencies. It evaluates the company's operations, culture, and projects plans to address problems in delivery, cost, scrap rates, and the plant's financial losses. Specific projects include layout improvements, standard work to boost utilization, converting energy sources, corrective actions, presenting bottleneck solutions, design changes, quality control projects, training, and preparing processes for automation. Metrics will track cost improvements as lean methods are adopted. A growth plan identifies opportunities in new product lines that leverage existing engineering capabilities for increased sales and margins.
This document provides an overview of forecasting. It defines forecasting as a statement about the future value of a variable of interest that is used for planning purposes. It then discusses how forecasts affect decision making across various organizational functions. The document outlines common features of forecasts, such as becoming less accurate over longer time horizons. It also describes different forecasting approaches, like judgmental, time series, and associative modeling. Time series techniques are explained in more detail, including identifying trends, seasonality, and cycles in time-ordered data. Specific time series forecasting methods like moving averages, weighted moving averages, and exponential smoothing are defined. The document concludes with a discussion and example of measuring forecast accuracy.
Chapter 7: systems design: activity-based costing -- assigning overhead costs to products, plant wide overhead rate, departmental overhead rates, designing and abc system, hierarchy of activities, activity-based costing at classic brass, using activity-based costing, direct labor hours as base, computing activity rates, shifting to overhead costs, targeting process improvements, evaluation of activity-based costing, abc and service industries, cost flows in an abc system.
How to Build a Great Cloud/SaaS Business Case Analysis for Technology InvestmentGotransverse
Shifting from a CAPEX to an OPEX model is one of the many potential benefits when considering cloud-based technology solutions. In this presentation, Drew Wright, co-founder of Technology Finance Partners and expert in ROI and SaaS pricing strategies, will help shed light on the economics of the cloud and provide insights into quantifying the financial benefits of smart technology investments.
This document outlines a business case for Microsoft Dynamics CRM partners to develop industry-specific intellectual property on top of the CRM platform to generate higher profit margins. It finds that developing a specialized software add-on focused on a specific industry can yield profit margins above 75% with breakeven in 1.5 years. The methodology includes a survey of over 100 CRM partners that identified success factors for "top performers," such as focusing on one industry-specific solution and investing in related technologies like Azure. Distributing IP solutions through indirect channels like other partners can provide over 100% return on investment.
1) Activity-based costing (ABC) is a cost accounting method that allocates overhead costs to products and services based on their actual consumption of resources instead of traditional methods that use less accurate cost drivers.
2) Target costing is a process that sets a target cost for a product by subtracting the desired profit margin from an estimated selling price and then works to reduce costs to meet the target.
3) Life-cycle costing tracks and accumulates all costs associated with a product or service over its entire lifetime from design through disposal to determine total profitability.
Total Cost Management PowerPoint Presentation SlidesSlideTeam
It has PPT slides covering wide range of topics showcasing all the core areas of your business needs. This complete deck focuses on Total Cost Management PowerPoint Presentation Slides and consists of professionally designed templates with suitable graphics and appropriate content. This deck has total of sixty seven slides. Our designers have created customizable templates for your convenience. You can make the required changes in the templates like colour, text and font size. Other than this, content can be added or deleted from the slide as per the requirement. Get access to this professionally designed complete deck PPT presentation by clicking the download button below. http://bit.ly/31TKF9W
This document discusses cost management in project planning and development. It defines cost management as estimating, budgeting, and controlling costs throughout a project's life cycle to keep expenses within the approved budget. It explains that cost management is vital for effective project planning and prevention of overruns. The types of costs include direct, indirect, labor, materials, equipment, and expenses. Key steps in cost management are project resource planning, cost estimation, cost budgeting, cost control, and using earned value management to measure performance. Formulas are provided to calculate cost variance, cost performance index, and schedule performance index. An example calculation is also included.
SE 307-CHAPTER_9_PROJECT_CASH_FLOW_ANALYSIS.pptAishaKhan527933
This document discusses project cash flow analysis for a manufacturing company. It provides definitions for different types of costs including direct materials, direct labor, manufacturing overhead, non-manufacturing overhead, marketing, and administrative costs. It also defines fixed, variable, and mixed costs. An example is provided to calculate average unit cost. The document then provides an example cash flow analysis for a project to install a new computer control system over 5 years. It shows the income statement, cash flow statement, and calculates that the project has a 22.55% internal rate of return, making it justified above the 15% minimum acceptable rate of return.
The document discusses project cost management and control cost processes. It provides definitions and explanations of key concepts like earned value management, cost and schedule performance indexes, variance analysis, and forecasting. It also includes examples of how to calculate earned value, schedule and cost variances, and performance indexes to monitor project performance and costs. Input, tools and techniques, and outputs of the control cost process are defined based on the Project Management Body of Knowledge.
This complete presentation has a set of sixty six slides to show your mastery of the subject. Use this ready-made PowerPoint presentation to present before your internal teams or the audience. All presentation designs in this Expense Management PowerPoint Presentation Slides have been crafted by our team of expert PowerPoint designers using the best of PPT templates, images, data-driven graphs and vector icons. The content has been well-researched by our team of business researchers. The biggest advantage of downloading this deck is that it is fully editable in PowerPoint. You can change the colors, font and text without any hassle to suit your business needs. http://bit.ly/39vrTIB
This webinar was presented by Stephen Jones, Chair of the APM Planning, Monitoring and Control SIG and Simon Taylor, Vice-Chair of the same SIG on Thursday 11th December 2014.
Earned value management is a project control process based on a structured approach to planning, cost collection and performance measurement.
Earned value helps us manage a project by:
providing data to enable objective measurement of project status;
providing a basis for estimating final cost;
predicting when the project will be complete;
supporting the effective management of resources;
providing a means of managing and controlling change.
Earned value provides information which enables effective decision making by knowing:
what has been achieved of the plan;
what it has cost to achieve the planned work;
if the work achieved is costing more or less than was planned;
if the project is ahead of or behind the planned schedule.
Good planning leads to good project execution and good management information.
This document discusses project cost management principles and processes. It explains that IT projects often experience cost overruns and provides examples. The key processes for managing costs are estimating costs, determining budgets, and controlling costs. Estimating involves developing cost approximations, while determining budgets allocates the estimate to work items to establish a baseline. Controlling costs involves monitoring performance against the baseline and approving changes. Earned value management is presented as a technique to integrate scope, time and cost data to track project performance.
Build a strategic management tool for your business in the form of this exclusive balance scorecard PowerPoint presentation slides. Use this balance scorecard PPT design to describe different prospective of your organization which are described as financial perspective, customer or investors perspective, organizational growth perspective and the internal process perspective. This Balanced Scorecard PPT layout explains the essential uses of the maintaining the balance scorecard for strategically developments of your organization as it also helps in analyzing various functions of your business and explains other factors which may affect the growth rate of your organization. This Balanced Scorecard presentation template will work as an effective management strategic tool to manage as well as monitor the strategic targets for the company. Thus you are just a click away from owning this professional designed PowerPoint image for your business to explain your subject matter in a very ingenious way. Gaze into the crystal ball with our Balanced Scorecard PowerPoint Presentation Slides. They give you the gift of foresight.
Guy Delahay, Owner and Managing Partner at Mainnovation Inc., discusses building a winning maintenance strategy through the use of the Value Driven Maintenance methodology, a state of the art framework that calculates economic added value of maintenance using Net Present Value techniques and industry specific maintenance benchmarks. Organizations that have embraced this practice have been able to achieve impressive results including:
30% Uptime Improvement
50% Cost Reduction
40% lower MRO stock value
View the slides to understand the steps invloved in building a winning maintenance strategy, such as understanding your Dominant Value Driver, utilizing KPI's and benchmarking, implementing Maintenance Best Practices, and exploring Value Drive Maintenance.
The document discusses operational auditing and concepts related to evaluating organizational effectiveness and efficiency. It defines operational auditing as evaluating the effectiveness and/or efficiency of operations, with effectiveness referring to accomplishing objectives and efficiency meaning reducing costs without reducing effectiveness. Economy is defined as maximizing the use of limited resources to achieve goals. Examples of types of inefficiency include acquiring goods and services too costly, lack of bids for purchases, raw materials not being available when needed, duplication of employee efforts, and work being done that serves no purpose.
Adventures in Business Analytics – Optimization and the Organization Garry, s...Tin Ho
Adventures in Business
Analytics – Optimization
and the Organization
Steve Garry
Marketing Optimization and the Organization
November 2014
Generating Better Business
Results Through Analytics
The document discusses how using technology like revenue tracking software can help lawn care businesses increase profits. It provides examples showing how tracking job times and costs can reveal which customers are most profitable per hour. This allows businesses to focus on high-paying customers and improve pricing strategies. The CLIP software is highlighted as a tool that can help with tasks like scheduling, routing, billing, and reporting to improve efficiency, job costing, and revenue tracking.
Mechanics & Application of Decoupling: Prepared for the Office of the Ohio Co...wayneshirley
This document provides an overview of revenue-profit decoupling mechanisms for utilities. It discusses the concept of decoupling, which breaks the link between a utility's sales volumes and profits. This is done by establishing a target revenue and adjusting prices as needed to collect that revenue, regardless of actual sales. The document outlines various decoupling approaches, including full, partial, and limited decoupling. It also addresses related issues like weather risk, economic risk, and the impacts of decoupling on utility costs of capital. Examples are provided to illustrate typical price adjustments under decoupling are small. In summary, the document introduces revenue-profit decoupling and its basic mechanisms for utilities.
The document discusses the theory of producer behavior and costs. It defines key concepts like production functions, returns to scale, and costs including fixed, variable, average, marginal, and total costs. It explains the relationships between these different cost concepts and how average and marginal costs change with output quantity. Cost curves like average total cost are also examined and shown to typically be U-shaped. Factors that influence costs like diminishing marginal returns are explained. Profit maximization when marginal revenue equals marginal cost is also covered.
The document discusses various pricing techniques used by companies to maximize profits. It describes different cost-based pricing methods like cost-plus pricing, full cost pricing, and marginal cost pricing. Other pricing strategies covered include demand-based pricing techniques like skimming pricing and penetration pricing. The document also discusses break-even analysis and how to determine pricing based on competition in the market. A variety of factors are highlighted that companies should consider when determining prices.
Investment appraisal is a means of assessing whether an investment project is worthwhile. It involves analyzing factors such as payback period, accounting rate of return, internal rate of return, profitability index, and net present value. Net present value discounts future cash flows to account for the time value of money and allows comparison of investments. Firms use these techniques to evaluate potential investments and determine which projects to pursue.
The financial statements of Greene Inc. were analyzed using horizontal analysis to understand why profit declined even though sales increased. Sales increased 14% from 2019 to 2020 but costs also increased substantially - cost of goods sold rose 18% and operating expenses increased 10%. While revenue grew, expenses grew at a higher rate, leading to a 10% decline in pre-tax profit and a 7% decline in net profit despite the increase in sales.
How to Use Artificial Intelligence to improve the profitability of restaurants.
1. Mini MBA on Customers Data Analysis
2. BUSINESS CUSTOMERS X-RAY Module
3. CUSTOMER CARE Module
4. MENU ENGINEERING Module
5.PERSONNEL DEVELOPMENT Module
6. EXPECTED ROI AND FINAL CONSIDERATIONS
This document provides an overview of deep learning techniques including neural networks, convolutional neural networks (CNNs), and long short-term memory (LSTM) algorithms. It defines key concepts like Bayesian inference, heuristics, perceptrons, and backpropagation. It also describes how to configure neural networks by specifying hyperparameters, hidden layers, normalization methods, and training parameters. CNN architectures are explained including convolution, pooling, and applications in computer vision tasks. Finally, predictive maintenance using deep learning to predict equipment failures from sensor data is briefly discussed.
How to Build a Great Cloud/SaaS Business Case Analysis for Technology InvestmentGotransverse
Shifting from a CAPEX to an OPEX model is one of the many potential benefits when considering cloud-based technology solutions. In this presentation, Drew Wright, co-founder of Technology Finance Partners and expert in ROI and SaaS pricing strategies, will help shed light on the economics of the cloud and provide insights into quantifying the financial benefits of smart technology investments.
This document outlines a business case for Microsoft Dynamics CRM partners to develop industry-specific intellectual property on top of the CRM platform to generate higher profit margins. It finds that developing a specialized software add-on focused on a specific industry can yield profit margins above 75% with breakeven in 1.5 years. The methodology includes a survey of over 100 CRM partners that identified success factors for "top performers," such as focusing on one industry-specific solution and investing in related technologies like Azure. Distributing IP solutions through indirect channels like other partners can provide over 100% return on investment.
1) Activity-based costing (ABC) is a cost accounting method that allocates overhead costs to products and services based on their actual consumption of resources instead of traditional methods that use less accurate cost drivers.
2) Target costing is a process that sets a target cost for a product by subtracting the desired profit margin from an estimated selling price and then works to reduce costs to meet the target.
3) Life-cycle costing tracks and accumulates all costs associated with a product or service over its entire lifetime from design through disposal to determine total profitability.
Total Cost Management PowerPoint Presentation SlidesSlideTeam
It has PPT slides covering wide range of topics showcasing all the core areas of your business needs. This complete deck focuses on Total Cost Management PowerPoint Presentation Slides and consists of professionally designed templates with suitable graphics and appropriate content. This deck has total of sixty seven slides. Our designers have created customizable templates for your convenience. You can make the required changes in the templates like colour, text and font size. Other than this, content can be added or deleted from the slide as per the requirement. Get access to this professionally designed complete deck PPT presentation by clicking the download button below. http://bit.ly/31TKF9W
This document discusses cost management in project planning and development. It defines cost management as estimating, budgeting, and controlling costs throughout a project's life cycle to keep expenses within the approved budget. It explains that cost management is vital for effective project planning and prevention of overruns. The types of costs include direct, indirect, labor, materials, equipment, and expenses. Key steps in cost management are project resource planning, cost estimation, cost budgeting, cost control, and using earned value management to measure performance. Formulas are provided to calculate cost variance, cost performance index, and schedule performance index. An example calculation is also included.
SE 307-CHAPTER_9_PROJECT_CASH_FLOW_ANALYSIS.pptAishaKhan527933
This document discusses project cash flow analysis for a manufacturing company. It provides definitions for different types of costs including direct materials, direct labor, manufacturing overhead, non-manufacturing overhead, marketing, and administrative costs. It also defines fixed, variable, and mixed costs. An example is provided to calculate average unit cost. The document then provides an example cash flow analysis for a project to install a new computer control system over 5 years. It shows the income statement, cash flow statement, and calculates that the project has a 22.55% internal rate of return, making it justified above the 15% minimum acceptable rate of return.
The document discusses project cost management and control cost processes. It provides definitions and explanations of key concepts like earned value management, cost and schedule performance indexes, variance analysis, and forecasting. It also includes examples of how to calculate earned value, schedule and cost variances, and performance indexes to monitor project performance and costs. Input, tools and techniques, and outputs of the control cost process are defined based on the Project Management Body of Knowledge.
This complete presentation has a set of sixty six slides to show your mastery of the subject. Use this ready-made PowerPoint presentation to present before your internal teams or the audience. All presentation designs in this Expense Management PowerPoint Presentation Slides have been crafted by our team of expert PowerPoint designers using the best of PPT templates, images, data-driven graphs and vector icons. The content has been well-researched by our team of business researchers. The biggest advantage of downloading this deck is that it is fully editable in PowerPoint. You can change the colors, font and text without any hassle to suit your business needs. http://bit.ly/39vrTIB
This webinar was presented by Stephen Jones, Chair of the APM Planning, Monitoring and Control SIG and Simon Taylor, Vice-Chair of the same SIG on Thursday 11th December 2014.
Earned value management is a project control process based on a structured approach to planning, cost collection and performance measurement.
Earned value helps us manage a project by:
providing data to enable objective measurement of project status;
providing a basis for estimating final cost;
predicting when the project will be complete;
supporting the effective management of resources;
providing a means of managing and controlling change.
Earned value provides information which enables effective decision making by knowing:
what has been achieved of the plan;
what it has cost to achieve the planned work;
if the work achieved is costing more or less than was planned;
if the project is ahead of or behind the planned schedule.
Good planning leads to good project execution and good management information.
This document discusses project cost management principles and processes. It explains that IT projects often experience cost overruns and provides examples. The key processes for managing costs are estimating costs, determining budgets, and controlling costs. Estimating involves developing cost approximations, while determining budgets allocates the estimate to work items to establish a baseline. Controlling costs involves monitoring performance against the baseline and approving changes. Earned value management is presented as a technique to integrate scope, time and cost data to track project performance.
Build a strategic management tool for your business in the form of this exclusive balance scorecard PowerPoint presentation slides. Use this balance scorecard PPT design to describe different prospective of your organization which are described as financial perspective, customer or investors perspective, organizational growth perspective and the internal process perspective. This Balanced Scorecard PPT layout explains the essential uses of the maintaining the balance scorecard for strategically developments of your organization as it also helps in analyzing various functions of your business and explains other factors which may affect the growth rate of your organization. This Balanced Scorecard presentation template will work as an effective management strategic tool to manage as well as monitor the strategic targets for the company. Thus you are just a click away from owning this professional designed PowerPoint image for your business to explain your subject matter in a very ingenious way. Gaze into the crystal ball with our Balanced Scorecard PowerPoint Presentation Slides. They give you the gift of foresight.
Guy Delahay, Owner and Managing Partner at Mainnovation Inc., discusses building a winning maintenance strategy through the use of the Value Driven Maintenance methodology, a state of the art framework that calculates economic added value of maintenance using Net Present Value techniques and industry specific maintenance benchmarks. Organizations that have embraced this practice have been able to achieve impressive results including:
30% Uptime Improvement
50% Cost Reduction
40% lower MRO stock value
View the slides to understand the steps invloved in building a winning maintenance strategy, such as understanding your Dominant Value Driver, utilizing KPI's and benchmarking, implementing Maintenance Best Practices, and exploring Value Drive Maintenance.
The document discusses operational auditing and concepts related to evaluating organizational effectiveness and efficiency. It defines operational auditing as evaluating the effectiveness and/or efficiency of operations, with effectiveness referring to accomplishing objectives and efficiency meaning reducing costs without reducing effectiveness. Economy is defined as maximizing the use of limited resources to achieve goals. Examples of types of inefficiency include acquiring goods and services too costly, lack of bids for purchases, raw materials not being available when needed, duplication of employee efforts, and work being done that serves no purpose.
Adventures in Business Analytics – Optimization and the Organization Garry, s...Tin Ho
Adventures in Business
Analytics – Optimization
and the Organization
Steve Garry
Marketing Optimization and the Organization
November 2014
Generating Better Business
Results Through Analytics
The document discusses how using technology like revenue tracking software can help lawn care businesses increase profits. It provides examples showing how tracking job times and costs can reveal which customers are most profitable per hour. This allows businesses to focus on high-paying customers and improve pricing strategies. The CLIP software is highlighted as a tool that can help with tasks like scheduling, routing, billing, and reporting to improve efficiency, job costing, and revenue tracking.
Mechanics & Application of Decoupling: Prepared for the Office of the Ohio Co...wayneshirley
This document provides an overview of revenue-profit decoupling mechanisms for utilities. It discusses the concept of decoupling, which breaks the link between a utility's sales volumes and profits. This is done by establishing a target revenue and adjusting prices as needed to collect that revenue, regardless of actual sales. The document outlines various decoupling approaches, including full, partial, and limited decoupling. It also addresses related issues like weather risk, economic risk, and the impacts of decoupling on utility costs of capital. Examples are provided to illustrate typical price adjustments under decoupling are small. In summary, the document introduces revenue-profit decoupling and its basic mechanisms for utilities.
The document discusses the theory of producer behavior and costs. It defines key concepts like production functions, returns to scale, and costs including fixed, variable, average, marginal, and total costs. It explains the relationships between these different cost concepts and how average and marginal costs change with output quantity. Cost curves like average total cost are also examined and shown to typically be U-shaped. Factors that influence costs like diminishing marginal returns are explained. Profit maximization when marginal revenue equals marginal cost is also covered.
The document discusses various pricing techniques used by companies to maximize profits. It describes different cost-based pricing methods like cost-plus pricing, full cost pricing, and marginal cost pricing. Other pricing strategies covered include demand-based pricing techniques like skimming pricing and penetration pricing. The document also discusses break-even analysis and how to determine pricing based on competition in the market. A variety of factors are highlighted that companies should consider when determining prices.
Investment appraisal is a means of assessing whether an investment project is worthwhile. It involves analyzing factors such as payback period, accounting rate of return, internal rate of return, profitability index, and net present value. Net present value discounts future cash flows to account for the time value of money and allows comparison of investments. Firms use these techniques to evaluate potential investments and determine which projects to pursue.
The financial statements of Greene Inc. were analyzed using horizontal analysis to understand why profit declined even though sales increased. Sales increased 14% from 2019 to 2020 but costs also increased substantially - cost of goods sold rose 18% and operating expenses increased 10%. While revenue grew, expenses grew at a higher rate, leading to a 10% decline in pre-tax profit and a 7% decline in net profit despite the increase in sales.
How to Use Artificial Intelligence to improve the profitability of restaurants.
1. Mini MBA on Customers Data Analysis
2. BUSINESS CUSTOMERS X-RAY Module
3. CUSTOMER CARE Module
4. MENU ENGINEERING Module
5.PERSONNEL DEVELOPMENT Module
6. EXPECTED ROI AND FINAL CONSIDERATIONS
This document provides an overview of deep learning techniques including neural networks, convolutional neural networks (CNNs), and long short-term memory (LSTM) algorithms. It defines key concepts like Bayesian inference, heuristics, perceptrons, and backpropagation. It also describes how to configure neural networks by specifying hyperparameters, hidden layers, normalization methods, and training parameters. CNN architectures are explained including convolution, pooling, and applications in computer vision tasks. Finally, predictive maintenance using deep learning to predict equipment failures from sensor data is briefly discussed.
This document discusses the use of social network graphs and analytics. It provides an overview of key concepts in social network analysis (SNA) including representing social networks, identifying strong and weak ties, central nodes, and overall network structure. Examples are given of how SNA is used in business, law enforcement, social media sites, and more. Key measures discussed include degree, betweenness, closeness, eigenvector centrality, density, and clustering coefficient. The small-world phenomenon and preferential attachment are also covered.
This document discusses using AI and machine learning techniques for sentiment analysis of text data from tweets and product reviews. It describes cleaning and preprocessing the text data, including removing special characters and stop words. Feature hashing is used to convert text into numeric feature vectors for machine learning algorithms like logistic regression. The goal is to analyze sentiment at a product level to help consumers understand public opinions before purchasing.
AI Class Topic 3: Building Machine Learning Predictive Systems (Predictive Ma...Value Amplify Consulting
This document discusses building a predictive system using machine learning. It describes predicting income using census data with four machine learning algorithms: Two-Class Decision Jungle, Two-Class Averaged Perceptron, Two-Class Bayes Point Machine, and Two-Class Locally-Deep Support Vector Machine. It also discusses tuning hyperparameters, combining results, and benchmarking performance. Additional sections cover predictive analytics processes, digital transformation, and predictive maintenance maturity models.
Value Amplify Consulting Group, offers the opportunity to hire Chief AI Officers trained to lead your organization in the following services, roadmaps and create your AI Playbook
This document discusses drivers of AI and digital transformation and the role of the Chief AI Officer (C.AI.O). It notes that by 2022, 75% of globally shipped working assets will have event-driven decision support systems. It asks what is needed to win in the next wave of value from AI and digital transformation, how to prepare data science teams to win, and how to build a value-driven AI playbook. It suggests the C.AI.O is the corporate role best able to find answers to these questions, as the C.AI.O can drive change, value, and competition through data, legal, and policy exploration to maximize appropriate AI use.
This Workshop Teaches Business Leaders How To Implement AI Technologies To Serve Customers Better Than Anybody Else.
AGENDA
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
Extracting Value & Delivering Value
Predictive & Preventive maintenance
Marine market, Jet engines
How to prepare & implement AI Playbook
EKATRA provides Realtime digital twins for contextual and situational analysis of complex industrial process such as power-generating plants. The demo shows a smart predictive maintenance scenario addressed.
EKATRA provides Realtime digital twins for contextual and situational analysis of complex industrial process such as power-generating plants. The demo shows a smart predictive maintenance scenario addressed.
AI and Automation in the most valuable business decisions. Leveraging REJ (Rapid Economic Justification) to identify the best use of AI. Presentation from the Infosys AI Summit in Miami.
This document provides an agenda for a seminar on investing in Bitcoin and blockchain-related funds. The agenda includes:
1. An introduction to Bitcoin and blockchain
2. Evaluating and investing in initial coin offerings (ICOs)
3. Technical analysis techniques for cryptocurrency trading
4. Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and trading robot funds
There will be a discussion panel with traders. The document then provides more details on each agenda item, including explanations of Bitcoin and Ethereum, examples of top coins and tokens, wallet types, cryptocurrency exchanges, and algorithmic trading bots. It promotes the potential to profit from cryptocurrency price volatility using futures or funds managed by trading robots.
What is Bitcoin, Blockchain? . How do they work?
How automated trading robot BOT BitConnect increases profits.
Start using BIT at: https://bitconnect.co/?ref=Giuseppemasc
The document discusses initial coin offerings (ICOs) and presents both opportunities and risks. It notes that while ICOs have raised billions of dollars, most are likely frauds or will not survive long-term. A framework is provided for evaluating ICO investments based on factors like the idea/concept, need for tokenization, team and advisors, roadmap, and terms of the offering. While the cryptocurrency market could reach $1-5 trillion by 2022, most current coins will not survive due to network effects that favor only the most successful projects.
Keynote presentation at the HUBB Conference.
Adj Prof Mascarella clarifies terms, mechanisms and what is the roadmap to use innovation for new business.
What Is Machine Learning?
Where do we deploy machine learning and what software and cloud services are out there to support it?
What are the trends in deploying these systems and what are the benefits for IT?
Do you have a IoT Machine Learning Case Study in the Cloud?
Learn SQL from basic queries to Advance queriesmanishkhaire30
Dive into the world of data analysis with our comprehensive guide on mastering SQL! This presentation offers a practical approach to learning SQL, focusing on real-world applications and hands-on practice. Whether you're a beginner or looking to sharpen your skills, this guide provides the tools you need to extract, analyze, and interpret data effectively.
Key Highlights:
Foundations of SQL: Understand the basics of SQL, including data retrieval, filtering, and aggregation.
Advanced Queries: Learn to craft complex queries to uncover deep insights from your data.
Data Trends and Patterns: Discover how to identify and interpret trends and patterns in your datasets.
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4. What is Value?
A Business Performance Improvement that is aligned
with the organization CSF and that enables the
organization to make optimal use of its resources
within the context of acceptable Risks.
REJ is the framework
for effective application of it
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6. What’s the Difference of Project vs Product?
Value Propositions Structure:
The opportunity to make a business improvement of CSF
with What (brand and description of product)
will improve “What” ( CFS relevant)
for “Who” (target audience/stakeholders).
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7. REJ Is an Engineered Approach To Assess and Plan the Value
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9. Business Assessment: Finding Value Driven Hypothesis
.
OEE
CSF (Critical Success Factor)
Use data to produce high
quality(profitable) level steels
and reduce cost of reworks.
17. Five Steps to Benefit Qualification
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18. Sample Data Driven Scenario: Electricity Usage Optimization
Maximize profitability by dynamically operating well sites based on variable cost structure
• x0% of production costs are electricity
• Smart Grid connects well to customer and utility
• Utility charges real-time rates based on Smart Meter readings
• Price of oil determines well site operational parameters
• Minimal acceptable well pressure maintained at all times
• Pump speed maximized when revenues > costs
Maximize Profitability
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2.0
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Time of Day (24 hour clock)
Optimized Electricity Consumption
Electricity Costs ($/kWh) Pump Speed (x100)
Electricity Cost Forecasting (Real-time Model)
Variables
• Supplier
• Season
• Temperature
• Time of day
• Load
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Variable Energy Consumptions
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By Time of the Day
Step 4: ComparisonStep 1-2-3: In-Out-Effectivness
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19. Increasing OEE Means Increasing ROI
Step 1-2: Current Input-Output
- Estimated period: 3 years
- Yearly Revenues: $ 800,000,000
- Yearly EBITDA: 6.5%
- Percentage of Revenues which can be affected by data: 18.0%
- Discount Rate: 9.0%
- We adopt a conservative approach, estimating for each OEE increase of
10.0%, an IFO increase of 10.5%.
Step 3: Effectiveness
- Source: Bob Hansen, Overall Equipment Effectiveness, pp 47-66; where it is
estimated, for each increase of 10.0% of OEE, an incerase of 21.0% of IFO
(Income from Operations).
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21. Increasing OEE Means Increasing ROI
Modeling ROI Calculations in preparation for customer engagement
Regarding Costs, we estimate, a yearly
total amount of $100k, adding internal
costs related to the data usage and
customization.
The costs have been actualized,
calculating the NPV, using the discount
rate.
Regarding OEE, we estimate the various
improvements along the years, thanks to
the Value Amplify Analytics solution.
Considering the assumptions, we calculate
the effect of data insight solution on IFO,
basing on a conservative approach.
Eventually, considering the NPV of the
impact of data (gain minus costs), we
calculate the ROI, as:
NPV [Gain - Cost (related to data)] /
NPV [Cost (related to data)]
Plant A Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Total
Cost
XX Solution Package $ 50.000 $ 50.000 $ 50.000 $ 150.000
Azure Units $ 50.000 $ 50.000 $ 50.000 $ 150.000
Customization/Operations $ 20.000 $ 15.000 $ 15.000 $ 50.000
Total Cost $ 120.000 $ 115.000 $ 115.000 $ 350.000
NPV [Total Cost (related to Q3)] $ 120.000 $ 105.505 $ 96.793 $ 322.298
OEE - Start of Period 60,0% 61,2% 62,1%
From 60% to 63%
(approx. +5%)
OEE Improvements (Per Year) 2,0% 1,5% 1,0%
OEE Improvements (Cumulative) 2,0% 3,5% 4,5%
OEE - End of Period 61,2% 62,1% 62,7%
Revenues $ 800.000.000 $ 800.000.000 $ 800.000.000 $ 2.400.000.000
IFO (EBITDA 6,5%) $ 52.000.000 $ 52.000.000 $ 52.000.000 $ 156.000.000
% of "Revenue from product" in scope 18,0% 18,0% 18,0%
IFO influenced by Q3 - Start of Period $ 9.360.000 $ 9.360.000 $ 9.360.000 $ 28.080.000
IFO Improvements using Q3 (%):
IFO Increment = 2,10* OEE Increment
4,2% 7,4% 9,5%
IFO Improvements using xx (%) -
Conservative:
IFO Increment = 1,05* OEE Increment
2,1% 3,7% 4,7%
IFO influenced by Q3 - End of Period $ 9.556.560 $ 9.703.980 $ 9.802.260 $ 29.062.800
Gai $ 196.560 $ 343.980 $ 442.260 $ 982.800
Gain - Cost (related to Q3) $ 76.560 $ 228.980 $ 327.260 $ 632.800
NPV [Gain - Cost (related to Q3)] $ 76.560 $ 210.073 $ 275.448 $ 562.082
ROI (Discount Rate 9,0%): 174,4%
22. XXProject Proposal Summary
Some of the feature discussed”
Rich and customizable real time production reports
from furnace to warehouse
Use of Machine Learning to prevent quality issues and
rework
Visual and interactive diagnostic on complex problems
Planning for high quality and lower costs of variables
No installation required, pay-per-use model
Production managers that want to increase OEE by up to 6% use Project XX to
lower production costs and prevent rework due to lack of predictive quality
systems.
This project in itself has a target potential of 175% ROI, with a payback in 1 year.
23. By: Prof. Giuseppe Mascarella
Download summary at:
www.valueamplify.com
By: Prof. Giuseppe Mascarella
giuseppe@valueamplify.com