Analytics & Business Intelligence
Why the Non-Superstar Might Be the Most Important Team Member
Hot shots get all the attention, but other team members can be the ones who make a group really tick.
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Analytical Value From Data That Cries Wolf
It’s never a good idea to assume your dataset is capturing all the information you need to make good decisions — but there are ways to mitigate uncertainty.
Predictive Analytics Are a Traveler’s Best Friend
With millions of data points and an amazing array of analysts, Amadeus turns air travel into an exercise in data science.
Analytics & Business Intelligence
Training the Next Generation of Business Analytics Professionals
NC State’s Institute for Advanced Analytics is the first business analytics program in the country — and way ahead of its time.
Analytics & Business Intelligence
Getting Value From Your Data Scientists
To create real business value, top management must learn how to manage data scientists effectively.
Analytics & Business Intelligence
Data Analytics Makes the Transition From Novelty to Commodity
When using analytics becomes a routine practice, four key changes will follow.
Analytics & Business Intelligence
The Four Traps of Predictive Analytics
Companies seeking to use analytics for predictive decision making commonly make these four errors.
Analytics & Business Intelligence
Does Your Company Collect Data — Or Hoard It?
The impulse to collect and store all data on the off chance it might be useful is counterproductive.
Data & Data Culture
Big Data Fatigue?
Big data is far from a fad in modern business — it’s a method of managing information that’s here for the long haul.
Analytics & Business Intelligence
Crafting Health Care’s Future at Kaiser Permanente
Kaiser Permanente is crafting health care’s future with help from its Innovation and Advanced Technology group.
Analytics & Business Intelligence
Capitalizing on Data by Building Organizational Capabilities
Using data analytics to reinvent health care requires more than just technical know-how — it also requires flexibility.
Analytics & Business Intelligence
Technology Solutions for Health Care Need a Continuous Process
WellPoint’s efforts to change health care billing highlights the need for an effective innovation process.
Analytics & Business Intelligence
What Businesses Can Learn From Sports Analytics
Research into how the sports world uses data offers five lessons that almost any business could adopt.
Analytics & Business Intelligence
The Digital C-Suite
The CIO Council makes the case that greater collaboration among top executives is required if companies are to reap technology’s benefits.
Analytics & Business Intelligence
A New, Analytics-Based Era of Banking Dawns at State Street
State Street gives itself a data and analytics makeover to meet the challenges of a changing industry.
Analytics & Business Intelligence
The Analytics Mandate
The 2014 Data & Analytics Report by MIT Sloan Management Review and SAS finds that an analytics culture offers better outcomes.
In Sports, It’s Quants Versus Managers
Where the “gut” instinct of sports managers once ruled, analytic insights are fast becoming standard.
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.
Analytics & Business Intelligence
Harnessing Quant Power
A recent book by Thomas H. Davenport and Jinho Kim advises companies on how to capture the power of big data.
Analytics & Business Intelligence
Elevating Data, Analytics to the C-Suite
The implications of a chief analytics officer for strategy and for long-term planning.