Q2 2012 Intelligence Quarterly: High-performance analytics

Big data. Hyperconnectivity. Speed to intelligence. These central themes have served as common threads in previous issues of Intelligence Quarterly, a journal that examines the many ways analytics transform the world. Taken separately, these elements could be seen as just added complexities, but the convergence of the three is where [...]

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Q1 2012 Intelligence Quarterly: Energy transformation 2.0

In this year’s first issue of Intelligence Quarterly, we examine the role of analytics in the energy sector of today – and the transformations it could bring to bear for the future. Although news headlines as of late have centered on the economic crisis, the energy discussion is not one [...]

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Q4 2011 Intelligence Quarterly: Battleground for the future

In the latest edition of Intelligence Quarterly, we explore big data, the transformational influence of analytics – and the implications of both in today’s hyperconnected world. While we live and work in an environment of free-flowing information, we are also exposed to new dangers. Globalization has removed geographical boundaries, and [...]

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Do or die: Analytics key to survival

What difference can one letter make? A lot, if you consider the recent downgrade of the US credit rating. And even more when it’s combined with the euro’s inability to use currency adjustments to balance fiscal conditions in Europe. We started this year worrying about the shape of the economic [...]

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Five tips for introducing analytics into your organization

What is the best way to become an analytic organization? Is there a tipping point of acceptance when funding opens up for analytic projects and leaders start making more decisions based on data instead of gut feel? How can you help introduce analytics into your organization? I enjoyed discussing these [...]

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Q3 2011 Intelligence Quarterly: How analytics change the world

In today’s highly digitized world, data has become a gateway to convergence. Entire business strategies are established around data to better run supply chain processes, fine-tune their pricing strategies, improve relationships with customers, calculate risks and fight fraud rings, or optimize maintenance cycles, to name but a few core processes where analytics [...]

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Business analytics in the mail

If you have something you want everyone in your organization to read, what’s the best way to make sure they’ll see it? What if it’s a report or data feed you want them to check every day or every couple of days as part of their daily routine? Wouldn’t you [...]

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Has Facebook changed the advertising model?

Facebook isn’t changing advertising. Rather, online behavior is changing advertising. And data analysis is changing advertising. But the biggest change in advertising – which we’re still just beginning to experience – comes with the ability to analyze online behavior. Those were my thoughts after reading the Businessweek article, “Facebook Sells [...]

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Hooked on analytics

I just got back last week from a conference hosted by Disney, the Disney Analytics and Optimization Summit. It was packed with people from Disney, ESPN, ABC and their affiliates. Plus they opened it up to people from outside the Disney organization this year. Based on the feeling in the [...]

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Accenture, SAS and the value of business analytics

It’s only February and we’ve already had a pretty exciting year at SAS. Today it got even more exciting with the announcement of the Accenture SAS Analytics Group. I’m especially excited because this feels like the logical culmination of the most important themes I see in our marketplace for the [...]

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