I recently gave a talk to a group of engineering students at Duke University, located just down the road from our headquarters in North Carolina. A couple of days later, one of the students sent me an email asking a very good question: which skills should I build up to
What does the future hold for retail banking? Let’s tap four sources for insight – media, financial results, an industry analyst perspective and bank CEO comments. First, let’s look at some recent article titles from publications such as Bank Technology News, American Banker, and BAI Banking Strategies: The Shrinking Bank
Think about what it’s like to learn to ride a bicycle, or play the piano, or hit a fast ball, or to coach a group of middle schoolers to do the same. If asked to explain how you stay balanced on a bicycle, you probably couldn’t do it. If you
Hear directly from an organization that is firing on all cylinders with analytics and achieving true data-driven insight in all its business areas. On Dec. 14, SAS customer Kelley Blue Book (KBB) and SAS Alliance partner Modern Analytics will share firsthand learnings during a live webinar, "Analytics – An Inside Perspective,”
For all of you who have ever been to Heidelberg, location of the headquarters of SAS Germany and the place where I live, you might know that a town called Mannheim is nearby. Some might even know that Mannheim is the place where a genius German engineer called Carl Benz
I was privileged to attend the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) Board of Directors meeting in Washington D.C. recently. Attended by some 300 senior executives of American Manufacturing companies, it was like a who’s-who in brand names anyone would recognize. NAM is a very big influencer of public policy on
For the past year, I’ve had the pleasure of serving on the communications team of the National Collaborative for Bio-Preparedness (NCB-P), of which SAS is a partner and the analytics provider. That experience was heavy on my mind as I recently watched the film Contagion. I may drop some minor
SAS UK has been working closely with the think tank Demos, a leading voice of authority on public policy and politics, undertaking a project on the topic of ‘open data’ and how its use can help to assign political accountability, give responsibility to citizens and even save lives. In July 2011,
As part of the staffing efforts for the new SAS Center for Health Analytics and Insights (CHAI), SAS recently hired Dr. Graham Hughes, MD, as the company’s first Chief Medical Officer (CMO). When I heard the news, I sent a few questions to Graham to learn more about the new
While doing research for my book The New Know: Innovation Powered by Analytics I asked the chieftains of the various corporate tribes roaming the value forest [e.g., finance, HR, marketing, operations, IT, and legal] two framing questions: What/how did they feel about themselves and the future trajectory of their discipline.
