Automated Metadata Extraction for Competitive Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence for the Creation of Competitive Intelligence Tools Introduction Often in prioritizing business development activities it is helpful to determine who is able to influence a decision and how they are related to those in the market space.  To make a defensible and actionable strategy it is useful to perform Influence Analysis and Network… Continue reading Automated Metadata Extraction for Competitive Intelligence

Reorganization of a Healthcare Products Technology Organization – Proposal

  Organizational Transition – Healthcare Products Division [Redacted] Corporation Executive Sponsor: Don Krapohl   Executive Summary [Redacted] Corporation is presently functionally-organized and biased strongly toward a single customer.  The project efforts that led to this will be drawing down in FY14.  By discounting several outmoded assumptions and capitalizing on changes in environment the organization will… Continue reading Reorganization of a Healthcare Products Technology Organization – Proposal

Predicting Federal Contracts using Machine Learning Classification in WEKA

Can I predict which contracts will likely be awarded in my area? By Don Krapohl Open WEKA explorer On pre-process tab find the government_contracts.arff file. Perform pre-processing Escape non-enclosure single- and double-quotes (’, ”) if using a delimited text version. Check ‘UniqueTransactionID’ and click ‘Remove’.  Stating the obvious, there is no value in analysis of… Continue reading Predicting Federal Contracts using Machine Learning Classification in WEKA