Infographics Get Pinned on Pinterest
If you haven’t given much thought (yet) to Pinterest, that’s not surprising.
Although the three-year-old social media site has become wildly popular over the past...
Are You Asking the Right Questions with Predictive Analytics?
Predictive analytics can help companies forecast business results with stunning accuracy – for example, how a particular group of customers might react to a targeted...
You Had Me at, “Would You Like a Grande Latte?”
My local Safeway isn’t what I would call a very modern store. And the employees are either high-school kids bagging groceries and collecting carts,...
From the Experts: 3 x 3 Tips for Implementing an Agile BI Strategy
Sometimes when you want answers to important questions you have to ask the people who’ve been there, done that.
And that’s exactly what Michael Schmier...
Using Analytics to Stoke Innovation
Forward-thinking companies are gathering, analyzing and acting on information that’s coming to them from multiple inputs, including social, mobile, email, chat, call center, operational,...
Automate Risk Management with a Highly Secure IT Backbone
High performance, highly secure IT integration of business process systems is now becoming a requirement to compete. Without automated communication between disparate systems, a...
What Data Scientists Must Learn About Customers
2012 has been coined the year of the customer by experts in a number of industries.
Because of this, companies are striving to become more...
Data Scientists – Is it Really a Matter of Degree(s)?
There’s no disputing the fact that big data is creating a big demand for data scientists.
In a report on big data, the McKinsey Global...
Reducing Project Duration by 25%: Magic or Common Sense?
For years, I’ve been telling IT folks how to shorten the duration of their projects: Make the upfront investment in getting the architecture right....
Top 3 Ways FP&A Analytics Can Get Your Financial House in Order
As April 17 approaches (this year's deadline), many Americans are scrambling to locate receipts and other financial documents to prepare to file their 2011...