Feeling the Beat

Oracle, PROFIT, 2012

“Google searches, Twitter feeds, and even Amazon sales ranks produce a lot of data—data that can be used to identify trends in real time and help business leaders get ahead. ‘There’s a revolution in data about society,’ says Douglas Hubbard, author of Pulse: The New Science of Harnessing Internet Buzz to Track Threats and Opportunities (Wiley, 2011). Here Hubbard tells Profit what the pulse is—and how to find it.” [view article]

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Upcoming Events

7th Annual Secure360 Conference
Keynote Speaker May 8 – 9, 2012, St. Paul RiverCentre, St. Paul, MN

Hubbard’s session description.

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Overview

Hubbard Decision Research provides training, consulting, and tools for the most difficult measurement, forecasting and investment decisions facing organizations today.  We use the powerful Applied Information Economics (AIE) method designed especially for those problems that (at first) seem unquantifiable.  The president and founder, Douglas W. Hubbard, is the lead consultant as well as an author of three books that have sold a total of over 50,000 copies in five languages.

 

HDR has used AIE to solve difficult and risky decisions in several fields including insurance, utilities, environmental policy, military logistics, mining operations, new medical devices, and information security.  No matter what your challenges may be in metrics, decision analysis, risk analysis, or forecasting, HDR can solve it.

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Quote of the Day

“Just as weather forecasting becomes more accurate with increased numbers of sensors and improved computational power, forecasting the “weather” of society will become just as scientific.” - Hubbard, Douglas W. (2011-05-03). Pulse: The New Science of Harnessing Internet Buzz to Track Threats and Opportunities.

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Hubbard Decision Research is a consulting firm specializing in Applied Information Econoimcs (AIE).  AIE addresses the difficult measurement, forecasting, risk assessment and decision analysis problems organizations face.  The president and founder is Douglas Hubbard, an author whose books have sold over 50,000 copies in five languages.

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