At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, many financial experts spoke about what is needed to unleash the lenders, keep the books simple, and bring on more rules to improve the financial markets and avoid another global financial crisis. Is nationalizing global banks the answer, as some experts have
This morning, the good folks in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania heard from Punxsutawney Phil that he did see his shadow. What they don't know is that he used SAS to predict whether his shadow was there or not. For years, Phil has wandered out into the freezing cold to determine if winter
Today I made peanut butter cookies with my two older children during my lunch break. I let them help with the tell-tale sugared fork indentations that top the homemade goodies. The five-year-old was able to do it on his own. The two-year-old needed some guidance. Why am I telling you
Business narcissism, says Scott Belsky in this Open Forum blog post, is "the tendency of all leaders and teams, across industries, to think that they are always encountering a special case." For example, read the following paragraph and guess what it describes: The forward-thinking CEO identified an underserved niche, created
Alan Gormley, SAS’ Director of Customer Intelligence Solutions for EMEA, recently published an article titled “Using Online Customer Experience to Drive Sales.” The content of this article fits nicely with our learning and improving video, which explored the topic of doing something with the customer data we collect. Read Alan’s
Recently, I watched an old TV show that had taken place in the 1980s. It was fascinating to watch, as it was a detective story and during that time there were no cell phones and the one computer they had was – by today’s standards – prehistoric. What I thought
~ Contributed by Bill Marriott ~ Here we are at the beginning of a New Year. By now most of you have made and a few of you have already broken your personal New Year’s Resolutions. For many of you, this is going to be the year you’re going to
I asked around for some 2009 predictions and meant to post them here a few weeks ago, but time got away from me. We still have 11 and 1/3 months left of the year, so I don't think it's too late to predict. Do you? My colleague in external communications,
I’m a consumer. And I’ve been buying more, and more, from online sources since the late 1990’s. And even when I choose to purchase an item locally, I conduct any research via the Web. It’s not even worth noting the reasons in favor of this approach, because we all know
This morning, as I was writing this blog post at the kitchen table, my 5-year old daughter ran into the room from watching “Sesame Street.” She excitedly announced, “Mommy, the letter of the day is R!” Too true. The recent NY Times story on the R programming language, which included
