On Wednesday the 23rd June, Tom Davenport, best-selling co-author of Competing on Analytics and Analytics at Work and President's Distinguished Professor at Babson College, led a masterclass of 20 business leaders in examining how organisations go from being analytically impaired to analytical competitors. In Tom’s view, most companies have massive
Next up in the SAS Applying Business Analytics Webinar Series is Forecasting 101! This Webinar is appropriate for anyone involved in the creation, review or utilization of forecasts: demand planners and forecast analysts who generate forecasts; managers in sales, marketing, finance and operations; and executives who oversee the forecasting and
Here's something you don't expect to hear from a banking executive: "The best thing that happened is the financial crisis." Of course, Tonny Rabjerg is not your standard banking executive. He's the Vice President of CRM Systems at Danske Bank. "I know the financial crisis is not good for the
Since deregulation, the energy and utilities industries have counted among the most complex, posing virtually insoluble problems thanks to a variety of trends and counter trends. That was the key conclusion of discussions in the Energy & Utilities insight session at The Premier Business Leadership Series, which was led by
In his introductory address, public sector session moderator Thomas Spiller of SAS neatly summed up some of the biggest challenges faced by national governments: dealing with the current economic climate and managing a crisis of confidence within their governments. In his experience, government responses seem to fall in to three
Since business analytics is all about turning data into insight that will drive future decisions, it makes perfect sense that as editor of the SAS Business Report, I’d use this mid-year month of June to study the newsletter’s data – and make sure it continues to provide you with valuable
Oil is still flowing into the Gulf of Mexico and the World Cup is underway in South Africa but those stories were pushed off the front pages for a while to make room for the really big news. Of course, I’m referring to AT&T’s announcement that new customers will no
In a thought-provoking keynote speech at The Premier Business Leadership Series in Berlin, Soumitra Dutta asked, "Are we born to innovative?" The answer, according to Dutta and a majority of hands raised in the audience is, Yes. Children, for example, experiment, ask questions, observe and tolerate a high-level of risk,
My colleagues Tapan Patel, Wayne Thompson & Chris Stephens hosted over 550 live attendees on June 16th for our Data Mining 101 live webinar, part 3 of the Applying Business Analytics Webinar Series. Folks joined from all over North America as well as 32 other countries around the world. Since
Over 80 banks in America have been closed down this year and others have announced higher trading losses amidst increased regulatory scrutiny. Finland was the first country to announce a double dip recession. Northern Rock cut 650 jobs as part of their restructuring efforts. We’re obviously not out of the
