Analytics maven (and SAS product marketing manager) Tammi Kay George hosted the panel on optimization that Anne-Lindsay Beall wrote about from Monday’s international SAS Media Day, which preceded The Series in Las Vegas (as it does every year). If you read TK's blog, you know that Tammi Kay's insights on
One of my favorite opportunities at business conferences hosted by SAS, like The Premier Business Leadership Series, is when I get to take a break from the crowds and spend some one-on-one time with a customer. We escape into a quiet room to discuss, on video, their trials and tribulations
I’m jumping in here to keep the blog balls in the air. With The Premiere Business Leadership Series in Las Vegas in full swing, there’s so much great material to share. We’ve tasked communication team members at the event with capturing and sharing as much of the great insights, advice
Malcolm Gladwell, author of Outliers and Blink, and Tom Davenport, Babson College professor and author of Competing on Analytics, engaged this morning in a debate on a live Webcast onsite at The Premier Business Leadership Series at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas. The theme of the debate is analytics vs. instinct:
More than you think, as reporters at SAS Media Day discovered this week when they attended a panel featuring Bill Nowicki, Director of Ticket Operations for the National Hockey League’s Carolina Hurricanes, and Bobby Hull, Corporate Systems Analyst for textiles giant BGF. While the aim of the two organizations is
After attending the "Analytics in the Executive Suite" panel at The Premier Business Leadership Series in Las Vegas, I came away with solid advice for companies looking to grow an analytics-based culture. Guidance came from representatives of companies with a strong analytics infrastructure: Eric Webster, State Farm Insurance; Barbara Pindar,
At The Premier Business Leadership Series in Las Vegas, Jim Davis, SAS Chief Marketing Officer, opened his presentation with an opportunistic spin: "A good crisis is a terrible thing to waste. Necessity might be the mother of invention, but recession is the mother of innovation." In November of this year,
What did everyone think of the Cover it Live posts below? I'd love to hear your honest opinions, since I'm still weighing the pros and cons. It was a handy tool and made live blogging very simple. I think the posts themselves are hard to read though, and I don't
It's Day 2 of the Premier Business Leadership Series here in Vegas, which kicked off this morning with a special edition of BetterManagement TODAY. (The show is taped live in the heart of the networking area of the conference.) One of the featured guests--and a keynote speaker yesterday--was Andrew Winston,
