In case you still haven’t noticed, the GDPR is approaching as sure as spring. Despite the anticipation, most organisations are quite comfortably waiting for the day to arrive. The consultant-forecasted GDPR panic never arrived, at least not in the way that we in the industry were expecting. I regularly meet
What if a famous soccer team asks you to predict how many tickets for their next match will be sold to women? Seventy students from Bicocca University of Milan tried to answer this question a couple of weeks ago. They were divided into 19 groups during a hackathon that SAS
Every day, managers in the health care sector are challenged with demands from politicians and influencers to find new ways to improve the health care sector. One of the biggest challenges for health care management is to handle the digitisation of the sector and to get more value out of
Much of the current artificial intelligence (AI) buzz is around applications like Alexa and Siri, or the use of chatbots in financial services or retail. There is far less talk about what might be possible in life sciences and healthcare with the application of AI, although companies are starting to
I have had talks with many manufacturing, retail and energy companies this year, and the general opinion is that there is huge value to be drawn from the data that has been collected over the years. The consensus is that data can bring new insight and enable better decision making
Like most men in the world, shopping (especially shopping for clothes) is an unpleasant experience for me, as I really feel like my time could be much better utilised. I make it a personal mission to get in and out in minimal time. So, I wonder to myself, “Could AI
With a tagline of the “power to know”, SAS is determined to help its customers use data and analytics to make better decisions. I caught up with Philip Reschke, Head of Analytics Strategy and Innovation for the Nordics, to learn more about his views on what it means to “run
The business landscape changes daily and with that comes new “buzzwords.” You know those ones that really bug you – those where you kind of know what they mean, but they can mean lots of things and different things to different people. Well let me share one of mine with
Technologies have come and gone since the first Industrial Revolution. We have always (or almost always) started out suspicious, then absorbed them, used them and built on them to do more work, more efficiently. Somehow, though, artificial intelligence (AI) is different. It feels like there is more fear about its impact, and
Last week, I reflected on how much had changed since I joined SAS 20 years ago, as a fresh-faced 23 year old. It is tempting to say that everything is different, but it really would not be true. There are many things that have stayed the same, even in the fast-moving
