As the Basel Accords continue to drum up attention in the global financial markets, many institutions are looking at how they can strike a balance between capital requirements and competitive advantage. One area of focus is consumer credit risk modelling and scoring, as the more accurate and robust the models
I my past blog posts I have written mostly about K-12 education. This is mainly because I think K-12 is over-ripe for reform in so many ways. School districts could learn a great deal from other industries and higher education in terms of data usage, reporting and analysis of students, programs and
Really, the hardest part of writing these weekly recaps is narrowing down the great list of SAS blog posts we publish every week and picking just a few to highlight. This is a bit of an estimate, but I've been telling people that we publish an average of eight posts
Oliver Schabenberger likes things that go fast. Perched on a shelf in his office at SAS world headquarters in Cary, North Carolina, are five scale models of Formula One race cars, which symbolize Schabenberger’s fascination with speed and technology. The models are replicas of the life-size, aerodynamic machines that can travel
SAS CEO Jim Goodnight is passionate about education reform. The fruits of that passion are evident in SAS' philanthropic efforts and in the many public speeches Dr. Goodnight gives on the topic. Earlier this month, we covered his visit to the Kelley School of Business. Last week, he was the
Neil Biehn of PROS, Erick Wikum of IBM Global Services, Eric Bibelnieks of Target, and Warren Hearnes of Home Depot shared their experiences selling analytics – both internally within their own organizations and externally to customers – on a panel this afternoon. A few random tips on this challenge:
Keith Collins, Sr. Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of SAS, opened his plenary talk at INFORMS today reporting the dream he woke up to this morning. In that sleepy state upon awakening he pictured researchers on Antarctica, and as consciousness came to him he tried to determine the signficance.
I attended a session bright and early this morning on Adoption of Analytics and OR Methods, and one of the primary topics was barriers to this adoption, the thorniest of which were people problems. My colleague Gary Cokins from SAS categorized barriers to adoption of optimization and advanced analytics into
Are you always looking for that inside perspective? Most of us are! As we all know, customers are the primary – perhaps exclusive – source of cash flow for many organizations. Knowing which ones are most profitable is critical to maximizing future economic value. To help today's marketing and business leaders learn
For all of you who have ever been to Heidelberg, location of the headquarters of SAS Germany and the place where I live, you might know that a town called Mannheim is nearby. Some might even know that Mannheim is the place where a genius German engineer called Carl Benz
