In fast growth markets like the Middle East, supply chain stakeholders are moving quickly to deploy instrumentation for greater visibility and better tracking. The move towards supply chain transparency is a big issue. But how will it be helped or hindered by the proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT)?
Look forward to what might happen during the year these days includes scanning an ever-growing list of predictions. For a few weeks, every platform and portal has been full of forecasts for 2017, including on trends in the Internet of Things (IoT). I usually take these forecasts with a pinch
Project management, the uninitiated tend to assume, is project management. You draw up the plan, assess the risks, and then deliver. A project manager can shift from project to project without any difficulty. But that’s not quite true, especially in business analytics. Managing business analytics projects is not quite like
We move closer to the implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in May 2018. SAS colleagues have been writing about its effects, and what actions companies can take to address these issues. Looking at these articles, I found myself reading a story behind these articles. Kicking off the
To make faster and more accurate decisions for better results is an everyday battle to management in organizations. Those who use data wisely will be the winners. Becoming a data driven organization is the key, but it often requires a change of mindset and stepping out of the old habits.
Digitalization is supposed to change everything, or perhaps even revolutionize everything, in both our private and professional lives. The way we live and work will change to match a digital society, whether we like it or not. Structures and organizational forms in companies will also change. And these changes will
The social media buzz around the Data Science Enthusiast Meetup in Istanbul on 17th Feb was hard to miss. Tuba Islam, Senior Business Solution Manager at SAS, was one of the speakers and she hosted a session around Analytics in Action. I caught up with her after the event and
Michael Link is not happy, and he has written about it. He has been receiving marketing emails for a product that you already own from a company that ought to know better. In this case, the unhappinesss is with Adobe, which persists in trying to sell him Photoshop Elements for
Data science has perhaps become something of a victim of its own success. As big data has proliferated, and more data is available, companies have enthusiastically bought into the idea that they can use analytics to get better insights from all this data. With data storage and cleaning becoming both
I commented before in my previous post that good fraud detection requires good data governance, which also serves many other purposes, not least to satisfy regulatory demands. But fraud is changing too: it is becoming much more the province of organized crime, and less about individuals. And fraud detection on
