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Per Hyldborg8 August 2017 3

Unleashing diversity

Diversity is a big topic in the press at the moment. In July, the UK’s BBC published data about pay, exposing a huge gender pay gap. But the question of diversity goes far beyond a simple pay gap. I caught up with Josefin Rosén to discuss how organizations can harness

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Analytics | Internet of Things

Britta Skriver4 August 2017 1

The Productivity Paradox - How IoT is changing perceptions

Evaluating productivity is deceptively simple: output over input equals productivity. In reality, however, how you measure input and output can be surprisingly important. The arrival of the industrial Internet of Things (IIOT) has not altered the fundamental problems. We may have more data but deciding which data to use is

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Analytics

Katrina Wakefield25 July 2017 0

The growing influence of developer experience in high performance analytics

A growing area of focus is analytics developer experience, and for good reason. As with applications, analytics teams need to respond to business needs in an agile manner, and developers play a crucial role. But how exactly does developer experience fit into the broader scheme of things? I asked Mark

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Analytics | Fraud & Security Intelligence | Risk Management

Michael Rabin14 July 2017 0

Fraudsters love digital

Anyone who believes that digitization has made the issue of insurance fraud go away is unfortunately wrong. One in ten reported damages and claims are still invented or manipulated. The cost: at least €5 billion per year in Germany alone for property and casualty insurance. In other words, not even including

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Banking | Insurance

Analytics

Marieke Hilbers7 July 2017 0

Agile business intelligence: 11 ideas to assess your self-service progress

The current excitement about self-service analytics centres around two main areas. The first is the rise of ‘citizen data scientists’, business users who are using self-service analytics to produce insights. They are drawing on a combination of their knowledge of the business, a level of comfort with analytical technology and

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning

Gregor Herrmann23 June 2017 0

How will APIs change the role of data scientists?

Application programming interfaces, otherwise known as APIs, are set to radically change the face of analytics. These little bits of code are working behind the scenes, hidden treasures that allow two pieces of code to talk to each other. This means that developers can borrow functionality from other apps.

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Analytics

Elie Mikhael20 June 2017 0

HR analytics: improving hiring, retention and engagement

Reading quite a lot of the press and commentary about analytics, you could be forgiven for thinking that these techniques were only usable for customer-facing work. Improving sales and marketing? Yes, you want analytics, using Big Data about your customers. But there are plenty of internal and operational issues where

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Michael Rabin19 June 2017 0

Digitization in insurance: Step speed is also speed

Are you looking for an insurance policy online? Want access 24/7? Ever wondered why many insurance giants are not yet fully digital? Digitization is not yet common among traditional insurance companies, although it has already happened in other industries and in insurance technology (InsurTech) companies. This is perhaps surprising, because

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Insurance

Analytics

Larry Orimoloye15 June 2017 1

How chatbots are changing customer service dynamics in banking

Ever wondered about the volume of calls to banks? It is probably inevitable that banks would turn to chatbots sooner or later. Chatbots offer huge opportunities for banks across three broad dimensions. Efficiency and opportunity The most expensive forms of interaction with customers are the personal ones: face-to-face, and by

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Banking

Analytics

Caroline Hermon14 June 2017 0

Managing stakeholders when pursuing bimodal and hybrid approaches

Mention multi-tasking and you open yourself up to a standard range of jokes about the gender divide, and effective ways of working. Recent research suggests that multi-tasking is actually impossible: nobody can do several things at once effectively. But a hybrid approach — if you like, multi-tasking for organisations —

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