One weakness of our study and a possible source of information bias is that the data contain no information about supply factors (e.g., profit or ownership status of the providers, geographical density of providers or quality of services).
Mr. Romney instantly bombarded him with data points about supply and demand in the energy industry, as if reading from a memorized briefing book.
To make the best decisions, managers need access to real-time data about their supply chain, but the limitations of legacy technologies can thwart the goal of end-to-end transparency.
Farmer's Business Network: This big data company connects over 3,400 small farms with open data about yields, supply prices and other information that lets them compete with large operations.
Peter Brostrom, a state Department of Water Resources official responsible for finding water efficiencies, talks about taking "a variety of small steps across the board," such as thinning overgrown forests, shoring up leaky delivery systems and building more coherent and uniform data about water supply and usage.
The problem is that there is often no easy way to get data about water supplies in these areas — water monitoring stations don't exist, or they don't work, or they are simply too dangerous to operate.
The ability to connect more personally with customers creates immense opportunity for companies to capture data about the market, supply new products and services, and build extremely defensible network effects and feedback loops.
In the process of compiling data about myself and supplying it to the F.B.I., I started thinking about what intelligence agents might not know about me.
The NAO says continuing problems are being caused by two issues: unreliable data about members being supplied to MyCSP by employers and a failure by the Cabinet Office to set up adequate oversight.
