About this blog
In many ways, Australia and New Zealand are unique - we live a day in the future, our birds walk and our mammals lay eggs. However, one thing we have in common with the rest of the world is the need to be globally competitive while staying local. On this blog, Evan Stubbs and his colleagues provide a uniquely ANZ perspective on doing business, using analytics to be more effective, and life in the antipodes in general.Subscribe to this blog
Evan Stubbs
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Chief Analytics Officer, Australia
Evan Stubbs is the Chief Analytics Officer for SAS Australia. Author of The Value of Business Analytics, a board member on the Institute of Analytical Professionals of Australia, and a guest lecturer at Macquarie University and the University of Sydney. He is a recognized expert in innovation and regularly runs workshops on how to extract value from business analytics. His background spans advising as a management consultant with KPMG Consulting, providing architectural strategy with Deloitte, as well as managing innovation within General Motor’s research and development activities.
Recent Posts
Business Analytics is about change. Do something.
Time's finite, right? In the immortal words of Prof. Bueller, "life moves pretty fast" - who wouldn't kill for another six hours in the day? ... Read More
Land Information NZ: The power of public data
As an economist by training, data has always interested me. Today, getting a decent dataset with a few million records is pretty easy. It wasn't ... Read More
GrabOne: Focus on the foundations
Having the time to catch up with what's happening on the marketing front is a real privilege. While I'm giving a presentation later this afternoon ... Read More
High performance analytics
Now that the home renovations have slowed somewhat, I've had a bit more time to think about things that don't involve moving bricks, arguing with ... Read More
Coping with uncertainty
Dealing with the unknown isn't easy. One of the most frustrating things about doing home renovations is that no matter how much you think you ... Read More
What is analytics?
We're having work done on our house at the moment. It's an older place that hasn't had as much maintenance as it should and so ... Read More
How much is happiness worth?
Just because every sector can benefit from Business Analytics doesn't mean that it's easy. I always find applying analytics in the public sector a fascinating ... Read More
Finding the right people is hard
The ideal business analytics practitioner is ridiculously multi-skilled. They need to be an expert mathematician. They need to intimately understand data warehousing and how to ... Read More
On the road - SAS Insight Sessions
Taken together, Australia and New Zealand make a deceptively large region. People, myself included, forget just how big - to get from Auckland to Perth ... Read More
The value of high-performance analytics