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Who are the most connected Directors on the ASX?
Hi I’m Mark T, and I’m currently working as an intern in MarketScoout. At MarketScout I have been leveraging statistical software and network visualization software to analyze ‘big data’. In order to hack large datasets, we need special approaches to analyse data in order to interpret it and generate meaningful insight. The research below is a sample of some the work we have been doing for a MarketScout client. For our analysis we focused on ASX Directors for which we have over 8,000 discrete directorships on file at just under 2,000...
read moreCloudbeat 2011 – MarketScout Case Study
We are excited and humbled to have been selected as one of 12 case studies for CloudBeat 2011 who have set out this year to identify and dissect the most disruptive examples of enterprise cloud adoption. Abhinav Keswani, our CTO and Ruby on Rails Principal at Trineo joined the team in August 2010 to take MarketScout into the ‘Cloud’ and beyond. Abhinav will proudly represent MarketScout and the Trineo bespoke development team at Cloudbeat 2011, sharing our journey to integrate, analyse, visualise next generation corporate...
read moreGenome Inspired Market Structure Visualisation
We bumped into a paper on the concept of strategy by Bruce Henderson from the Boston Consulting Group recently that talked of the beginning of natural competition. Henderson compared cell organism survival with the evolution of strategy. To say that we were excited to read someone of Henderson’s reputation describing our very own approach to MarketScout would be somewhat of an understatement. MarketScout is anchored on a microbiology inspired framework of economies and markets where we focus on the relationships between millions of...
read moreThe Australian Stock Exchange (ASX)… Networked
A few years ago, we embarked on an ambitious, long-term endeavor that we intend to deliver shortly with increasing capabilities over the months and years to come. The basic goal is to collect information about global systems: everything from corporate finance to strategy, to political dynamics … and to structure this information in such a way that it can be stored and used to feed into different mathematical models. We call our platform MarketScout In the first instance, we have chosen our home market, Australia and built a proprietary...
read moreThe New Business Intelligence
To make the right decisions, businesses need to digest huge quantities of historical and real-time data. New data processing technologies – and new architectures that push useful analysis to managers on the front line – are spreading the benefits of business intelligence across the enterprise. Infoworld has just published a fantastic graphic setting out several BI scenario’s which at a high level really echo the sentiment and underlying driver behind MarketScout from a technology perspective. The fundamental difference of position...
read moreBolstering risk management with market intelligence
Bolstering risk management with market intelligence Strong market intelligence can significantly boost a company’s risk management capabilities, but there are a number of hurdles that risk professionals must overcome first When it comes to combining market intelligence and risk management, some blue chip global companies are fairly advanced in the process, but the reality is that most companies do not even know where to begin, according to Thomas Rideg, an expert in risk and market intelligence. “To begin with, many risk managers may...
read moreWhat is Competitive Intelligence?
“Competitive Intelligence (CI) is a systematic and ongoing process for gathering and analysing information to derive actionable insights about competitors, the competitive environment and trends in order to further the organisation’s business goals.” ~ Adapted from Fleisher & Bensoussan, 2003 CI is concerned with the ethical and legal methods companies use to monitor their competitors, identify growth opportunities, understand their own competitive position and improve their performance. CI helps organisations sustain...
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