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Path to Cloud for Analytics
In today’s data-fueled world, organizations are increasingly looking to the cloud for analytics to help accelerate time-to-value, spin up resources at will, and reduce financial risk while enabling in-house talent to focus on value-add. The path to cloud is rarely straight and wide, however, and a number of factors affect
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Why Google Duplex Did Not Pass the Turing Test
Recently, a lot of press was given to Google’s Duplex Artificial Intelligence (AI) bot. Watch a video of the demonstration here. The Duplex bot calls businesses, such as a restaurant, on your behalf and makes a reservation. It does this by actually having a conversation with the human on
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Don't be Hit by the Analytics Backlash
One of my typical activities in May is to teach the Analytics Academy, a short program offered to Harvard Ph.D. students and graduates from the School of Arts and Sciences. The session is offered through the Office of Career Services and explores how Ph.Ds from various fields can secure jobs
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Organizing Analytics Teams: New Angles on a Perennial Challenge
Based on IIA’s new and updated research on organizing analytics teams, Research Advisor Bob Morison reviews the objectives and variables of organizational structure and share examples of how enterprises are adjusting their structures to deploy and develop analysts effectively, incorporate new methods and technologies, address strategic business opportunities, and leverage
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It's Time to Require Analytics in Business Plans
Profit and Loss (P&L) statements permeate businesses due to the need to track how a business is performing at overall, business unit, and even project-by-project levels. This blog raises a question: why shouldn’t an analytics plan be expected as a part of the business plan for any major initiative
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Three More Reasons to Embrace Automated Machine Learning
In my IIA post in May I wrote about the fact that automated machine learning (AML or, in deference to anti-money laundering, AutoML) has the potential to reduce demand for data scientists, and to make them less sexy in the job market. Before shutting up completely on that topic, however,
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5 Trends of the Analytics Evolution: A Fireside Chat with Kathy Koontz and Bill Franks
Join us as we welcome our new Executive Director of the Analytics Leadership Consortium, Kathy Koontz, to the team and hear her insights on the industry. Kathy joins IIA with years of experience working with enterprise analytics teams – from her time at Nationwide to her experience at Teradata –
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The Case for Combining Customer Analytics and Research Teams
Traditionally, large organizations have both a research organization and a customer analytics organization that are distinct from each other and often in entirely different chains of command. I have seen many organizations where there is tension between these two organizations. Neither seems willing to acknowledge the value of the
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Joining the Inc. 5000 Ranks
We at IIA are so proud to be listed for the first time on Inc. Magazine’s Annual List of America’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies. This honor comes thanks to the efforts of the entire IIA team and the leadership of CEO and Co-Founder Jack Phillips. The list represents the most successful
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Are You Personally Investing With Your Analytics Expertise?
Everyone seems to agree that analytics, AI and Big Data are changing the world and that cloud computing is accelerating the adoption of these technologies. Combined, they are disrupting traditional business models and creating new market opportunities. If you are an analytics leader, data scientist, ML engineer, software engineer or