Facilitated by Mary P. Flynn of Disney Institute, the “Inspiring Creativity" Masterclass at The Premier Business Leadership Series was an amazing insight into Disney's approach to inspiring creativity and turning innovation into everyday practice. Whatever else you may feel about Disney, no one can accuse them of anything less than
The SAS Government Leadership Summit is now behind us and I couldn’t be more pleased with the content delivered by the great line-up of panelists and speakers. We knew that uncovering inefficiencies, fighting fraud and improper payments, and the importance of analytics would be recurring themes. But an unexpected thread
The SAS office in New York City has one of the best views in the city. Sitting on the 47th floor of a skyscraper on 7th Avenue, the Executive Briefing Room overlooks Central Park and it has a highly distracting view – especially on such a nice sunny day. What
I had the pleasure to be the host of the Risk and Finance Insight Session on the second day of The Premier Business Leadership Series, where we discussed the subject of enterprise risk management and financial stewardship. With global, political and financial upheaval becoming the norm (and during the conference
In the world of technology, 2011 is unremarkable in some ways. As with every year, there are hot trends – hype, buzzwords and “must-have” technologies. Some might even assign analytics to the trending category this year. 2011 marks the 35th anniversary of the founding of SAS. For the past 35
Organizations have become good at finding answers to questions. Where they need to improve is in asking the right questions, according to Dries Van Nieuwenhuyse, General Manager Performance Management USG People Interservices NV. “IT people tend to be applied scientists whose job is to answer specific questions but in analytics,
The Premier Business Leadership Series focused largely – and rightly – on the business benefits of analytics. But driving those benefits requires a serious analysis of the business environment and what is going to deliver most value to the organization. Looking at what was done in the past won’t cut
Organizations that pile up huge amounts of data without turning it into actionable information are like alcoholics. And the first step towards curing themselves is admitting they have a problem. Dev Govender, Head of Enterprise Information Management at South Africa’s largest bank, ABSA, was challenged to convince senior management that
At the Insight Session on Business Performance, Processes and Systems, George Ioannou, Professor of Operations Management at Athens University of Economics and Business said truth resides in data. But finding that data is like trying to find a pirates’ treasure buried on a desert island. It takes more than
Shailendra Ghorpade of MetLife, Daniel Hamilton of Johns Hopkins University and Penelope Naas of Citi are all committed Atlanticists: but they all see some issues ahead, especially for Europe, and according to Daniel the window of opportunity for putting things right is a small one. In the AmCham EU panel
