Blog Posts by Tom Davenport
After another “Competing on Business Analytics” dinner sponsored by SAS and Accenture last night in Atlanta, what impressed me about analytics as a business resource is that it can support…
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…
At a “Competing on Business Analytics” event sponsored by SAS and Accenture in Chicago this week, Mike Haaf, former Food Lion SVP of Sales, Marketing, and Business Strategy, described a…
Cindi Howson has a new report out about the importance of interfaces to BI tools.Cindi does good research, and I don’t disagree with her methods or conclusions. However, it’s worth…
2010 is going to be a good year for analytics, if the survey of International Institute for Analytics members is any indication. 90% say analytics will have a greater impact…
How will financial services organizations handle complex analytical decisions in the future?Our financial institutions made decisions about their operations and customers is at the heart of the financial crisis we’re…
Today everybody is talking about predictive analytics, and it’s undeniably desirable to be able to predict the behavior of customers, employees, voters, or other sources of uncertainty. However, while predictive…