Why Data Mining

1. Credit ratings/targeted marketing: Given a database of 100,000 names, which persons are the least likely to default on their credit cards?
   • Identify likely responders to sales promotions
2. Fraud detection
   • Which types of transactions are likely to be fraudulent, given the demographics and transactional history of a particular customer?
3. Customer relationship management:
   Which of my customers are likely to be the most loyal, and which are most likely to leave for a competitor?

Data Mining helps extract such information

 Data Mining Applications

1. Banking: loan/credit card approval
   • predict good customers based on old customers
2. Customer relationship management:
   • Identify those who are likely to leave for a competitor.
3. Targeted marketing:
   • Identify likely responders to promotions
4. Fraud detection: telecommunications, financial transactions
   • from an online stream of events identify fraudulent events
5. Manufacturing and production:
   • Automatically adjust knobs when process parameter changes
6. Medicine: disease outcome, the effectiveness of treatments
   • Analyze patient disease history: find a relationship between diseases
     Molecular/Pharmaceutical: identify new drugs
7. Scientific data analysis:
   • Identify new galaxies by searching for subclusters
8. Web site/store design and promotion:
   • Find affinity of visitors to pages and modify the layout

Data Mining- Classification

Given old data about customers and payments, predict new applicants’ loan eligibility.

Data Mining – Association Rules

Given set T of groups of items

Example: a set of item sets purchased

Goal: find all rules on item sets of the form a-->b such that: Purchase of product A --> Service B

Example: Milk --> bread

Prevalent does not equal Interesting

• Analysts already know about prevalent rules
• Interesting rules are those that deviate from prior expectation
• Mining’s payoff is in finding surprising phenomena

What makes a rule surprising?

1. Does not match the prior expectation
   The correlation between milk and cereal remains roughly constant over time
2. Cannot be trivially derived from simpler rules
   Milk 10%, cereal 10%
   Milk and cereal 10% … surprising
   Eggs 10%
   Milk, cereal, and eggs 0.1% … surprising!
   Expected 1%

What Is Being Returned The Most?

A little bit of everything needs further investigation.

Is There a Connection?

Everything! Notice the large quantities of Wood Finish materials.

What Are Some of These Products?

100% and more than 70 times

More than 60% and more than 65 times  

More than 50% and more than 100 times

Decomposition Tree, showing returns multiple times, why?

Data Mining – Clustering

• Unsupervised learning when old data with class labels is not available e.g. when introducing a new product.
• Group/cluster existing customers based on time series of payment history such that similar customers in the same cluster.
  

Applications

1. Customer segmentation e.g. for targeted marketing
   • Group/cluster existing customers based on time series of payment history such that similar customers in the same cluster.
   • Identify micro-markets and develop policies for each
2. Collaborative filtering
   • Group based on common items purchased
     

Application Example

Data Mining - Forecasting

Accurate Forecasting Roadmap (Expected 6 Months)

Data Mining Cycle

CRISP-DM: Cross Industry Standard Process for Data Mining

Are we fast enough? 

End to End Prespective- Process X-Ray

Why Process Discovery & Mining?

• Process Discovery and mining help you understand your business processes bottlenecks and issues by drawing a complete picture of all transactions using the data stored on ERP and through process observation by our professional team.
• Process mining provides visibility into processes into what is happening within your enterprise systems such as ERP, CRM, and the like
• Process mining is an analytical discipline for discovering, monitoring, and improving processes as they actually are (not as you think they might be), by extracting knowledge from event logs readily available in today's information systems
• Process mining is used for creating a complete picture of current state processes

Digital Process Footprint

Get to know the invisible process in a fast and simple way

•  Organizations are primarily interested in an improved “to be/ new” process, so often they have little interest in exploring “as is,” or how the process is currently performed.
• Understanding the current process is critical to know whether it is worth investing in improvements, where performance problems exist, and how much variation there is in the process across the organization.
• Process mining can help in understanding the current situation in a fast and affordable manner. 
  

- Digital footprint components

How about discovering the hidden and revealing reality?!

With Process mining, we can uncover what's hidden inside the process and ERP!  

Bottlenecks and constraints exist and need to be measured to be resolved

- We perform observation and use data in ERP as well for all transactions in selected processes

- We can run simulations to show the Process Bottlenecks

- Through process mining disconnects in the process can be highlighted. Showing the potential areas of improvement to enhance the process. That would lead to improvements in the level of service.

Compliance Issues can be addressed in a smart way

- Process mining can analyze a large amount of process data and can show the process at the transactional level, which helps in uncovering compliance issues

- Traditional internal control processes review samples only though it can be done fast and in a smarter way

- The approach is simple by e-auditing processes 

EMS

Make Your decision based on:
Data, facts, and figures.
The End-to-End KPI reporting

Execution is everything. It's not enough to just understand your business process but to actually take action.

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 The Journey to Better Profitability 

 Opportunity to Cash

 Procure to Pay (P2P)

Mastering Finance & Capital Budgeting

Introduction

Every manager needs to understand finance if they are to play an active role in helping their organization achieve its objectives. However, not every manager needs the same level of skill and understanding as specialist financial and accounting managers. Good knowledge of the key concepts of prudent financial management as modern financial accounting should equip all managers with the knowledge they require.

Course Description

This course is designed to provide senior executives with the financial skills they need to gain a competitive advantage. In addition, the course is designed to expose to the participants the various techniques of corporate finance to arrive at optimal financial decisions within a firm, including those of investment, financing, and capital structure.

The course will give the participants a full review of the content of the major financial statements; balance sheet, Income statement, cash flow statement; the course examines the financial strengths, ratios of different firms.

Participants will learn how to analyze the financial strengths and weaknesses of a firm and decide on its short/long-term future financing and investment needs and will be exposed to a comprehensive financial statement analysis that integrates the corporate strategy, planning, and financial decisions.

Course Objectives

This course helps participants to understand how firms communicate through financial statements. They learn how to:

• Use financial statement analysis as an integral part of the strategic analysis of
• Interpret financial statements, analyze cash flows & make judgments about earnings
• Apply financial statement analysis prospectively to forecast the financial performance by applying modern accounting-based
• Build an overall budget of the company as well as functional
• Appraising projects and using capital budgeting techniques

Who Should Attend The Program

Project managers, project teams, functional managers, operation managers, supervisors, and senior managers seeking more knowledge in Corporate Finance and Economics.

Course Content

Fundamentals of finance

• Accounting Finance
• Cash Flow role in corporations
• Sources of Financing and Financial institutions

Financial Statements

• Major financial statements
  • Balance Sheet
  • Income Statement
  • Cash Flow Statement

Financial Statement Analysis

• Comprehensive financial analysis
• The Structure and Interrelationship of Financial Statements

Case Study & Exercises

Financial Ratios

• Foundations of Ratio and Financial Analysis
  • Liquidity Ratios
  • Activity Ratios
  • Profitability Ratios
  • Debt Ratios
  • Market Ratios

Introduction to Valuation and Time Value of Money

• Future Value and Compounding
• Present Value and Discounting
• More about Present Value and Future Value

Investment Appraisal Tools Long-Term Investment Decisions(Capital Budgeting)

• Payback period
• Concepts of shareholder's value
• Pro-forma Financial Statements
• Capital budgeting techniques for different investment
• Discounted cash flow measures (PBP, NPV, IRR, and PI)

Case Study & Exercises

Corporate Valuation

Course Date:

3 Full days, from 10:0, am to 4:00 pm

Course Instructor:

LinkedIn Profile

• Investment and Financial Consultant
• Investment and Finance Instructor at AUC
• Board member at Trans Orient for Marketing - Alkhorayef Group
• Former Senior Director VP at Emirates NBD Dubai

About the Instructor:

• Investment and Financial Consultant/Instructor – Freelancer RITI/AUC/EBI/West Gate/Top Business/Others
• Multifaceted and distinguished experience and exposure in Private Banking, Investment, Retail Banking and
• Financial Services that spanned over 19 years including top-level executive positions in multinational Banks.
• Distinguished experience in Private Banking, Investment, and financial services that have spanned over 19 years, including top-level executive positions is an Investment and Financial Consultant and certified Freelance Instructor/Trainer with several institutions such as Egyptian Banking Institute (EBI), American University in Cairo (AUC), Regional Informational Technology Institute (RITI), West Gate Consultants, Symbios Consulting, Windsor Academy, Top Business and other institutes delivering different Banking, Finance, International Finance, and Economics modules, Foundation Programs and consultancy services to different Banks and Firms (Commercial International Bank, National Bank of Kuwait, Barclays Bank, Banque Misr, The United Bank, Banque Du Caire, El Sewedy Holdings, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, Suez Steel and others).

Industry 4.0 

In Industry 4.0 we come across many concepts and techniques such as IoT, Data Analytics, Digitization, IIOT, AI, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, RPA, Digitized Supply Chain, Big Data, Augmented Reality, 3D Printing, Cloud-Based Applications and of course the so-in now Blockchains.

While addressing cyber-security concerns and preparing for continuously increasing and inevitable risks, the Industry 4.0 transformation offers huge opportunities – for all industry segments.

Especially process industries that already have relatively high levels of automation. Digitization promises a major efficiency boost for production operations and maintenance as well as opens up new opportunities for the automated manufacture of flexible, highly differentiated product offerings. Moreover, research and development will benefit too. For example in areas including new material modeling simulation and analyzing research data as it has been done for many years in the high tech industry.

Secondly, industries are a part of a highly interconnected value chain. The interlinking and analysis of unimaginably large volumes of data created not just within a company itself but within every step from raw material sourcing to end product usage in a customer’s product raises transparency and drives monetary value to be realized.

We in Symbios solutions help you to smartify your industry with a team of experts we see where opportunities are, and design an industrial system that enable achieving the digital transformation in your industry. We don’t believe in transformation for sake of change but we assess what is really needed based on your current situation develop the transformation masterplan based on your priorities and budget for solutions that truly develop your business.

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Digitalization Training and Workshops

Symbios Digital offers training and workshops in many fields related to digitalization. Our curriculum fits both executives and operations staff. We focus on foundational courses to educate on digital transformation leadership (business transformation workshop, leadership 4.0, digital strategy mapping), and operational courses to enable team members with the right tools to support and grow in a digitalized culture with specific focus to different trends such as Service 4.0, Quality 4.0, Government 4.0, Operational Excellence 4.0, and Digital Supply Chain or Supply Chain 4.0.

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Digitalization Journey

Digital transformation is not about technology; digital transformation is about redefining your value proposition and to deliver that value proposition; you have to think about how to disrupt your current business model and redesign your company to deal with exponential market and technology changes.

Critical to digital transformation is an operational backbone that enables operational excellence in back-office processes and transactions through integrated systems and well-controlled processes (e.g. ERP, CRM). Operational backbone is the basic: If you don’t have it, build it now.

Creating the proper data strategy is important to enjoy higher-quality data and more immediate access to your data. Or perhaps you’re just tired of printing pages and pages of paper forms, dragging them around, keeping them organized, and spending hours and hours entering the data you collected by hand. 

As part of the journey, we facilitate formulating an explicit data strategy, Strategy for how you are going to go about gathering data, using data, putting data into the heart of your business and how you can create new value going forward

After creating the data strategy, we move to the process of making information available and accessible in a digital format. This is the digitizing phase.

Rethinking your business model by providing digitized products and solutions that create customer engagement and support your business to move from analog to digital. We facilitate the process of developing an integrated business strategy inspired by the capabilities of powerful readily accessible technologies and responsive to relentless market changing conditions. Defining a digital strategy is the easy part; strategy execution is the real challenge. This is the phase of creating a digitalization strategy.

Finally at the digitalization phase is about building the right capabilities and creating a clear road map for brownfield and greenfield for business. Creating a clear business process and use cases to pave the road for full transformation. The journey takes years and it needs to follow a clear digital true north where strategy can be revised every two to three years to cope with ever-changing technologies and fast-changing market dynamics. we establish a digital innovation lab and form a digital transformation unit to guarantee governance and digital transformation success. 

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COVID-19 Digital Tools

Times of crisis test what we are made off. For Covid-19 we created a set of tools to help educate on readiness in time of pandemics. We have a Back-to-Work Readiness Assessment Tool, free to take, and we launched an Employees Wellness Journey Portal focusing on the most important assets, human capital. 

Without EWJ-Portal we are vulnerable to decreased wellbeing of our employees and this will affect our business continuity. Without our readiness assessment, you will lack the know-how of pandemic preparedness. 

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Readiness Assessment Tools

Our team has designed multiple readiness assessment tools to help you understand where you are within the digital transformation phases in different industries. Some of those are online readiness assessments, such as COVID-19 Preparedness, and Digital Supply Chain assessments, others require a quotation such as Smart Factory and Government 4.0.

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