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Beverly Brown 1
SAS executives not afraid to sweat

It’s fashionable these days for executives to say they want their employees to be healthy. Employer-sponsored wellness initiatives are popular, and it’s easy to understand why, given the bottom-line benefits of reducing health-care costs. But how many executives actually work out alongside their workers? At SAS, where employee wellness has

Leo Sadovy 2
Business Analytics 101: Cost and Profitability Analysis

Information has a cost; good data doesn’t come for free. Bad business decisions have a cost too. Consider product cost and customer profitability. If you are using standard accounting approaches (developed a century ago to meet the needs of manufacturing), then you are most likely in that camp of bad

Jonathan Hornby 1
Planning and forecasting in the air

Whether it be ash clouds, strikes or financial difficulties, the airline industry is having a turbulent time right now. When I used to live in London, I’d pass Heathrow airport regularly. On a clear day you could see at least 10 planes stacked on their approach to the runway –

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Anna Brown 1
Personal business analytics

While reading a datadoodle blog post, Self tracking is business intelligence, I was taken back to my days in the advertising and PR agency world. The blog references Peter Drucker’s book, The Effective Executive that suggests tracking your day (or having your secretary do it) in increments of 15 minutes

Faye Merrideth 0
Top 12 ways to spur innovation in tough times

Is innovation being squelched during belt-tightening optimization efforts? If long term benefits aren’t balanced with short term gains, that’s often the case. Passion is quickly extinguished when new ideas meet with budget constraints that can’t be disregarded for the sake of innovation or creativity. It’s time to look at ways

Jonathan Hornby 1
Top 3 issues for the CFO

Earlier this week, Greece received its first tranche of EU bail-out money. Stock markets rallied. The Euro made gains, but fell back in later trading. According to the BBC, there were still concerns among investors that the package does nothing to address the fundamental problems of high debt levels in

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