Several years ago, we noticed some interesting new executive titles elevating the stature of analytics: Chief Analytics Officer and Chief Problem-Solving Officer. The CAO title even has a Wikipedia entry. In addition, other titles we have seen for a while are starting to span into more industries: Chief Scientist (not for your typical research organization, [...]
Real Estate and Other Virgin Analytical Territory There are many businesses and industries around the world that are virgin territory for analytics. Yes, many industries have considerable analytical activity underway, and more and more companies are embracing the competitive potential of analytics. But there are far more that haven’t even begun to compete analytically. Residential [...]
October 6, 2010 at 2PM EDT Tom Davenport, Professor at Babson College and IIA Research Director Jeanne Harris, Executive Research Fellow, Accenture Institute for High Performance Jeremy Shapiro, Executive Director, HR Analytics—Morgan Stanley Can you use analytics to better manage your organization’s human capital? If you’ve seen the article on Google in the October issue [...]
Tom Davenport was interviewed recently by the Sloan Business Review on Reengineering your decision making processes about analytics and how companies make decisions. While the interview is mostly focused on manual decision making, many of the points are just as valid when you consider decision management and decisioning technology as I do. Analytics, says Tom, [...]
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 [...]
The “Rolling Thunder Analytics Tour 2010” of Europe is over, and it was something of a blur. Eight cities in two weeks (counting Savannah, where I started week one). But despite my tiredness on the flight back home, it was a rich experience. I heard (and tried to respond to) perhaps a couple hundred questions [...]
I’m on my way home from the INFORMS Practice Conference in Orlando . A subtitle for it might be “Geeks who make a difference.” The meeting is a celebration of operations research (OR) and its application to organizations and decisions. If you’re not familiar with OR, it’s probably one of the oldest forms of analytics, [...]
