Blog Posts by Tom Davenport
Along with a number of other IIA faculty, I recently participated in the 2014 IIA Analytics Symposium in Orlando. The event was notable for one primary reason: no, not its…
A company to which I’m an advisor just released its second annual survey of big data use in large companies. Most of the companies (75%) participating in the survey were…
With 2014 rapidly approaching, we’re calling on you to aid our world-class faculty of analytics experts and help predict what is in store for next year. Each year, IIA gathers…
While doing some research recently on companies that are incorporating big data into their products and key processes, I noticed that that a disproportionate number seem to be more than…
Once a week or so I hear from vendors who are creating the “data scientist in a box.” They say they can use software and hardware to get rid of…
INTRODUCTIONBig-thinking gurus often argue that we have moved from the agricultural economy to the industrial economy to the data economy. It is certainly true that more and more of our…
Last week in the IIA we did a webcast for our Retail Analytics Research Council on “next best offers.” I’ve been doing some research on this issue with John Lucker…
Last week I described five types of analytical organization structures. This week I will describe some research on which ones seem to function best.Last year, my co-author Jeanne Harris and…
One issue that organizations are often interested in is how to organize analytics. In this post I’ll describe five different organizational models; surely one of them will fit your organization.First…