Being DICEE and the golden rule of presentations - Guy Kawasaki talks to us

Marnie Macdonald
Marnie Macdonald|April 25, 2012

Today was a career highlight for me – while at the SAS Global Forum Executive Conference in Orlando, not only did I get to hear Guy Kawasaki talk about the Art of Enchantment, I got to meet him afterwards and record a short segment from him. Guy (I can call [...]

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GrabOne: Focus on the foundations

Evan Stubbs
Evan Stubbs|March 27, 2012

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 on the need for real-time engagement, what I really love about the Marketing Association’s Smarter Data conference is listening to some real visionaries. Getting better doesn’t [...]

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Using SAS to make money

Evan Stubbs
Evan Stubbs|June 15, 2011

It’s a good time to know how to use SAS. Demand for people with SAS skills in Australia is through the roof. As of today, a search on Seek for jobs involving SAS skills returns 3,458 roles listed in the last 30 days, of which 636 (or almost 20%) are [...]

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If you want to be relevant, be part of the big picture

Evan Stubbs
Evan Stubbs|April 11, 2011

Radhika Kulkarni is not only a good speaker, she’s sharp. As our Vice President in charge of Advanced Analytics R&D, that’s not surprising. What impressed me the most about her talk though was the ease with which she leapt between the strategic to the technical, all without batting an eyelid! While [...]

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Want to get attention?

Evan Stubbs
Evan Stubbs|April 11, 2011

Chuck Holland, VP of Engineering at UPS, made a good point today at INFORMS – if you want to get someone’s attention, date their daughter. The link between that and business analytics may seem more than a little tenuous, but it’s a good one – as most parents will probably [...]

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Flying around and having fun

Evan Stubbs
Evan Stubbs|November 23, 2010

Time flies when you’re having fun. And, we’re always having fun here at SAS – I guess that’s why so much time has passed! A lot’s happened since our last update; we’re coming to grips with our latest dashboards, we’re playing around with JMP 9, and we’re happily taking advantage [...]

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Sucking eggs and stating the obvious

Evan Stubbs
Evan Stubbs|August 25, 2010

Demonstrating value from analytics is a big thing for me; if you can’t define it, measure it, and demonstrate it, the critics will tell you it didn’t exist.  I’ve written previously about the importance of measuring the economic value of analysis and at our recent forum, one of my presentations [...]

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After the show

Evan Stubbs
Evan Stubbs|August 24, 2010

The verdict’s in – SAS Forum ANZ 2010 was a clear success!  When our own Chief Marketing Officer ranks one of his favourite conversations as being the one he had with Telstra, Qantas, and Citibank, you know we’re onto a good thing.  With over 1,200 business executives and users in [...]

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Backstage pass

Evan Stubbs
Evan Stubbs|July 30, 2010

SAS Forum ANZ is in less than two weeks and believe me, it’s getting pretty crazy around here.  We sold out early, we’ve had to cancel internal presentations to make even more room for customer presentations, we’ve got a full contingent of press and analysts attending, and we’ve even got Dr. Jim [...]

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    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.

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