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
Hard though it is to say (and to believe), I joined SAS 20 years ago this week, on Tuesday 14 April 1998. As a fresh-faced, bright-eyed 23 year old, I worked in the UK training department as a statistics trainer. SAS 6.12 was the latest version of our product, SAS/Assist
There is general agreement that the electricity and energy market is changing in a wide variety of ways. There is, however, less agreement on the likely effects of these changes. This makes it extremely hard for energy companies to know precisely where to target investment, but there are ways of
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,
