Each of us is defined and shaped by a combination of our experience and our genetic makeup. The precise balance of nature and nurture is not clear, but it is probably fair to say that as we get older, experience may become more important. This is crucial to being able
In recent years, regional managers and hospital managers have been challenged with huge pressure for higher quality, more effectiveness and a rising demand for increased digitalisation and use of data. At the same time, they are trying to lower health care costs. It seems like an impossible task, but it
New technologies offering new ways to solve complicated and costly problems are entering the health care sector . Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of them. To succeed with AI, you need to think in an analytical manner, to build an analytical organisation and, as a part of that, you need an analytics
The purpose of this blog post is to explain, in a very easy way, the definition of procurement fraud, how to fight it and why it is so important to act on. First, let me start with an example of procurement fraud that recently hit the headlines in Sweden and,
Today, data and analytics are at the core of the work of most organisations. They are embedded in business processes and customer interactions alike. But in getting to this point, there has been a struggle between two different cultures within these organisations — between two groups from different backgrounds with
There is a lot of buzz in the market about artificial intelligence, machine learning, chatbots, blockchains and hackathons. The list could go on. You do not hear much about business intelligence these days. Does this mean BI is no longer needed? Absolutely not, but I do believe it is worth
Platforms are currently big news in analytics. There are, however, still questions about the platform capability required to support the analytics life cycle and customer understanding of the issues. 1. Getting value from platforms is NOT about technology When we talk to customers, it is clear that they are not
Analytically speaking, West Perth is paradise. We know that thanks to the Paradise Found project and my colleague Andreas Becks’ blog posts on the topic. One thing is clear: Without machine learning and analytics, we never would have found this Australian boomtown neighbourhood among 5 million data points collected on
The Danish government wants to increase the quality of health care treatments by measuring 25 selected indicators based on eight national values within health care. The purpose is to make it easier for local health care professionals to improve the quality of their work. In 2016 the Danish government introduced
Social skills are not, perhaps, the first words that many people would associate with data scientists . They are far more likely to be seen as geeks, communicating mainly with computers. But the world of data science is changing, if indeed that geeky perception was ever true. Nowadays, data scientists and
