Big Idea Competing With Data & Analytics

How are organizations leveraging data and analytics to increase operational efficiency, engage key stakeholders, and report on business successes? From 2010-2018, the Data and Analytics initiative investigated how technology enables competitiveness.

MIT SMR’s research employs global qualitative and quantitative methods to investigate how data is influencing business processes, offerings, and engagement with customers. It looks at trends in the use of analytics, the evolution of analytics strategy, optimal team composition, and new opportunities for data-driven innovation.

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In Sports, It’s Quants Versus Managers

Where the “gut” instinct of sports managers once ruled, analytic insights are fast becoming standard.

Renee Boucher Ferguson

April 28, 2014

Data & Data Culture

Preparing Analytics for a Strategic Role

The way health care is billed in the U.S. system is part of the reason costs are so high. WellPoint is looking to analytics to play a strategic role in changing that.

Michael Fitzgerald

April 23, 2014

Analytics & Business Intelligence

Elevating Data, Analytics to the C-Suite

The implications of a chief analytics officer for strategy and for long-term planning.

Douglas Hague (Bank of America Merchant Services) interviewed by Renee Boucher Ferguson

March 25, 2014

Analytics & Business Intelligence

Rent The Runway: Organizing Around Analytics

Customer experience is what sets Rent The Runway apart. And it’s driven by data and analytics.

Renee Boucher Ferguson

March 24, 2014

Data & Data Culture

ComScore: The Art and Science of Big Data, From the Inside

A recent report by MIT CISR details how comScore organizes internally to create value from big data.

Renee Boucher Ferguson

March 24, 2014

Analytics & Business Intelligence

Better Decisions with Smarter Data

To make better data-based decisions managers need smart data — and big data training.

Renee Boucher Ferguson

February 20, 2014

Financial Management & Risk

The Science of Managing Black Swans

By exploiting organizational data, managers can derail some risky blind spots.

Renee Boucher Ferguson

February 19, 2014

Analytics & Business Intelligence

Luminar Insights

Entravision, a Spanish-language media company, transformed its business model using big data.

Renee Boucher Ferguson

February 12, 2014

Analytics & Business Intelligence

Video: Leveraging Analytics to Transform a Traditional Broadcast Business

The traditional broadcast business is being transformed through the use of data and analytics.

Walter Ulloa (Entravision Communications Corporation) and Franklin Rios (Luminar), interviewed by Michael Fitzgerald

February 06, 2014

Analytics & Business Intelligence

GE and the Culture of Analytics

GE’s marketing division uses data to continuously improve performance — and democratize analytics.

Philip Kim (GE Measurement & Control), interviewed by Renee Boucher Ferguson

January 27, 2014

Data & Data Culture

Prognosis for GIS in Health Care Is Excellent

Healthcare systems are coming back to their roots, using geographic information systems to shape healthcare.

Michael Fitzgerald

December 20, 2013

Data & Data Culture

Raising the Bar With Analytics

Managers have an increasing appetite for analytics, according to a 2013 MIT Sloan Management Review / SAS survey.

David Kiron, Pamela Kirk Prentice and Renee Boucher Ferguson

December 19, 2013

Data & Data Culture

Thriving in a Big Data World

Three recent books offer expert perspectives on the increasing power and importance of analytics.

Alden M. Hayashi

December 19, 2013

Analytics & Business Intelligence

Are Predictive Analytics Transforming Your Supply Chain?

New research suggests data science, predictive analytics and big data will transform supply chains.

Renee Boucher Ferguson

December 18, 2013

Analytics & Business Intelligence

Why Predictive Analytics Needs Due Process

Looking at data through a predictive analytics lens? What due process could mean for you.

Renee Boucher Ferguson

December 18, 2013

Analytics & Business Intelligence

How Big Data is Influencing Big Companies

A recent survey sheds light on what large organizations are actually doing with big data initiatives.

Renee Boucher Ferguson

November 25, 2013

Data & Data Culture

Three Paradoxes of Big Data

Stanford Law Review warns against Big Data’s potential for abuse.

Renee Boucher Ferguson

November 22, 2013

Analytics & Business Intelligence

Are Algorithms Influencing Your Business?

Just what are algorithms, how are they used, and what happens when influential algorithms go wrong?

Renee Boucher Ferguson

November 22, 2013

Data & Data Culture

Smart Cities and Economic Development: What to Consider

Smart cities, and opportunities as part of their development, abound. The question is, at what cost?

Renee Boucher Ferguson

October 29, 2013

Analytics & Business Intelligence

Collecting Business Value from Energy Data

Pilio CEO Catherine Bottrill explains how pairing behavioral science with energy analytics can manage energy use.

Catherine Bottrill (Pilio), interviewed by Renee Boucher Ferguson

October 28, 2013

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