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News and views from the people who make SAS a great place to work![How a free iPhone app helped me lose 20 pounds – and made what SAS does real](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2011/08/BevAfter-640x336.jpg)
Update: While the SAS analogy still works, my calories-in/calories-out strategy didn't! But today I'm in the best health of my life by using food as medicine, a journey that began by working with a SAS registered dietitian nutritionist. Read this post for a window into my experience. I’m a data-entry
![TDWI Journey: The evolution of agile](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2017/01/DataMgt-1-702x336.png)
In preparation for TDWI San Diego, I was finalizing my schedule and checking out what some of my favorite TDWI instructors are up to for San Diego. I'll be blogging about my fave classes from these instructors all next week. This evening I caught up on Cindi Howson 's blog
![The holy grail of pre-pay health care fraud](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2017/01/Analytics-1-702x336.png)
Everyone within the health care community recognizes that the traditional ‘pay-and-chase’ model for fraud cost reduction has some serious limitations. Recovery of the lost funds is in some cases a mere single digit percentage point (with some exceptions – but not many) of the moneys paid. And the effort and
![Heading down the (Dodd-Frank) highway. Are we lookin’ for adventure?](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2017/01/DataMgt-1-702x336.png)
SIFMA held its Dodd-Frank Impact Analysis Summit in New York City on July 13, bringing together almost 500 industry participants for a day-long discussion just prior to the first anniversary of the Act’s passage. In addition to Tim Ryan (SIFMA CEO), the summit included guest speakers Larry Kudlow, Evan Thomas
![The power of analytical catalysts](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2011/08/Communication-702x336.jpg)
Recently, I was able to spend a morning with a group of analytics executives at the SAS Power Series in Chicago. I enjoyed it a lot because instead of pontificating about analytics to them, I got to hear about their challenges and approaches in a workshop format. There were a
![My summer reading selection: Process improvement anyone? KnowledgeFlowBook.gif](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2017/02/KnowledgeFlowBook.gif)
I am one of those rare people that enjoys process; not rigid process and military-like discipline, but order. Wasted effort drives me insane. I’ve been on projects all through my career where I feel like the project teams are constantly reinventing the wheel, because nobody bothered to capture any documentation