IIA Launches Analytics Research Council (ARC) in Healthcare

Medical Records & Stethoscope

IIA will launch its first Analytics Research Council (ARC) in the Healthcare industry in early September. IIA’s innovative ARCs are designed to bring practitioner teams together for frank and insightful conversations about the use of analytics in their specific vertical industry. A subset of IIA’s faculty team will moderate these conversations, and produce a set [...]

IIA 2010 Conference Highlights

Business conference

IIA is proud to announce our event partnerships and participation for the remainder of 2010. It is important for both analytics and technology professionals to gain knowledge, insight and depth on the ever changing world of analytics and we at IIA strive to be the go to research organization for all of your analytics needs. [...]

Office Hours: Data Mining with Quantitative and Qualitative Data

John Elder will lead our next Office Hours call on Wednesday, September 1 from 2-3 pm EST. John will outline the value and methods involved in data mining across both quantitative and qualitative data. In particular, John will describe the data transformations necessary before doing such work, and the tools that are particularly valuable for [...]

Tom Davenport in the Malaysia Star

Tom Davenport

Just a quick post to share this interview with Tom Davenport that appeared over the weekend in The Malaysia Star. Davenport was in Malaysia to speak at the recent SAS Forum 2010 at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre. Among his observations: “My observations are that in certain industries, the use of analytics is quite important [...]

Office Hours: Building a Global Customer Analytics Capability

Global analytics

We will welcome David Fogarty, Global Customer Value Management Leader at CIGNA to our next IIA Faculty Office Hours webcast to be held on Wednesday, August 4 at 2:00 pm ET. There is no charge for IIA members to participate in this interactive program, so mark it in your calendar now. In this discussion, Fogarty [...]

Office Hours: Fuzzy Definitions and Hard Data – Measuring the Elusive “Engagement”

Eric Peterson

IIA Office Hours: Wednesday, June 2, 2010 2:00 p.m. (ET) According to cScape’s 2010 survey, 55% of companies regard engagement as essential to their organization — and they’re investing in a variety of efforts in digital, social, and mobile channels to achieve it.  But what is engagement and how is it measured?  Without a clear understanding of what [...]

Office Hours: The Analytics of Pricing Strategy

Murli Buluswar photo

Save the Date * Faculty Office Hours — Wednesday, May 5 at 2:00 ET Special guest: Murli Buluswar, Vice President of Insight & Innovation at Farmers Insurance. This complimentary members’ webcast will explore the analytics of pricing strategy. Buluswar leads the internal analytics consulting group responsible for data driven strategic insight. Insight & Innovation serves a [...]

Office Hours: Research Agenda

Tom D arms crossed

The IIA will be hosting our next complimentary, members-only “office hours” webcast on  April 7 from 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. (US Eastern). This month, Professor Tom Davenport will review the IIA’s research agenda for 2010 and explain the topics on which members have most often asked him for insights. Have a topic you’d like to [...]

Office Hours: with Tom Davenport

Successful group of business colleagues working on a laptop

The IIA will be hosting our next complimentary, members-only “office hours” webcast on  April 7 from 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. (US Eastern). This month, Professor Tom Davenport will review the IIA’s research agenda for 2010 and explain the topics on which members have most often asked him for insights. Have a topic you’d like to [...]

INFORMS Orlando Conference 2010

Firewall

Just a few weeks away is the INFORMS Practice Conference being held in Orlando on April 18 – 20. Mark Shafer, SVP of Revenue Management at Disney Parks & Resorts will be a keynoter as will Richard O’Neill, Chief Economic Advisor at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

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