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Tim ClarkMarch 20, 2017 0

Achieving a quality-connected enterprise

Quality in every thought, every action, every outcome You might think differentiating on the quality of your products is a no-brainer – who wouldn’t seek to make every product incredibly high quality? Yet experience shows us that many manufacturers only capture data from the production line. While this approach creates

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Manufacturing

Advanced Analytics | Analytics

Peter SnellingMarch 16, 2017 0

Why our future prosperity demands smart borders

There have been some rather hysterical headlines in the UK recently about immigration. Eyebrow-raising statements alluding to the Home Office (the government department responsible for immigration) losing thousands of asylum seekers illustrate that efforts to trace them are placing huge pressure on resources. This, and the more outward looking post-Brexit

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Government

Advanced Analytics | Analytics | SAS Events

David PopeMarch 13, 2017 0

4 strategic uses of analytics

Every where you turn today, you run into analytics. If you talk about big data, you will talk about analytics, if you talk about the internet of things (IoT), you will talk about analytics, if you talk about automation ... well, you get the picture. When used properly, analytics has always

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Students & Educators

Michael ThomasMarch 10, 2017 0

North Carolina's youth chess championship by the numbers

Once again, SAS is sponsoring the North Carolina Scholastic Chess Championship. The 43 year-old event is at the Raleigh Convention Center this weekend, March 11-12th. SAS sponsors this event because of the STEM education benefits of youth chess. Hundreds of players have been preparing and studying. A few even practiced

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Analytics

Peter SnellingMarch 9, 2017 0

Why deeper insights, not more cash, will transform Home Office outcomes

Unlike some other UK Government departments, the Home Office has done well out of the recent spending review. Overall police spending has been protected – following the debacle of the earlier calculation errors – to protect against emerging crime threats and to train more firearms officers. Counter-terrorism has received a

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Government

Analytics

Peter Pugh-JonesMarch 8, 2017 0

Is governance getting in the way of innovation?

Digitalisation is blasting the cobwebs out from enterprises and organisations of all kinds – freeing them to innovate and take advantage of the always-on economy. But it’s also helping new disruptive players to gain an unexpectedly strong foothold in many markets. One of the key advantages these new players have

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Analytics

Steven O'DonoghueMarch 7, 2017 0

Building a high-performing analytics team

To get a high-performing analytics team producing insights that matter, you need great people, powerful software and a culture of experimentation and innovation. Three simple ingredients, but getting there is far from easy. In this post, I’d like to get you thinking about how to organize for success by building

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Analytics

Caroline HermonMarch 6, 2017 0

How to make analytics modernization work in practice

We like to think of analytics as a logical discipline, where investment decisions are consistently rational and predictable. Not so. Customer organisations are driven by all the usual complex and sometimes contradictory forces. Business users want analytics to help them make good customer facing decisions as quickly as possible, while

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Analytics | Fraud & Security Intelligence

Steve BennettMarch 3, 2017 0

5 Tech initiatives for the Trump administration

The Obama administration made great strides in improving the government’s use of information technology over the past eight years, and now it's up to the Trump administration to expand upon it. Let’s look at five possible Trump administration initiatives that can take government’s use of information technology to the next

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Government

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