International Institute for Analytics

The International Institute for Analytics predictions for 2012 have been posted to the IIA website. Check out what Tom Davenport, the rest of the faculty and I think about the new year in analytics. And if you are interested in predictive analytics in the cloud (my prediction), go to our company site here.

I am participating in the 2012 predictions call by the International Institute for Analytics December 14th at 11am Pacific. Tom Davenport will be hosting a session to focus on the institute’s 2012 Predictions for Analytics. First, we’ll review how clear our crystal ball was a year ago as we cast our predictions for 2011. Then, Tom [...]

Cross-posted from International Institute for Analytics There was a great article recently in the McKinsey Quarterly – The Second Economy. In it W Brian Arthur discusses the fact that Digitization is creating a second economy that’s vast, automatic, and invisible—thereby bringing the biggest change since the Industrial Revolution. It’s a good article and worth a [...]

I am a faculty member for the International Institute for Analytics and we are launching a new research effort – the IT Analytics Research Council. Here’s what the official promotional text says: The International Institute for Analytics (IIA) uses an experience-based research approach to uncover “what’s working” and more importantly “what’s next” in the area [...]

Cross posted at International Institute for Analytics McKinsey just published a new study “Big Data: the next frontier for innovation, competition and productivity” that is definitely worth reading. With lots of detail – it runs to more than 150 pages – it discusses why there is so much more data, what that means and how [...]

Syndicated from International Institute for Analytics Tom Davenport pointed me to an interesting article recently – Judgment Call or Automated Decision—Or Both? – by Jan Abrams. It’s an interesting article and I go back and forth as I read it in terms of agreeing or disagreeing with Jan. First, let me say that the use [...]

The early bird rate for Predictive Analytics World expires on Monday so now is a great time to register for the event. I am giving my popular workshop – Driving Enterprise Decisions with Business Analytics – on the Sunday and speaking on the Tuesday on “Deploying Analytics with a Rules-Based Infrastructure“. I am also participating [...]

I am a faculty member of the International Institute for Analytics and participated in the recent call to discuss some of our predictions for 2011. Quite a few of the faculty were on the call – Tom Davenport, John Elder, Bill Franks, Jeanne Harris, Anne Milley, Niel Nickolaisen, Jeremy Shapiro and me. If you haven’t [...]

Syndicated from IIA My friends at SAS, a sponsor of IIA, have a nice piece on their Knowledge Exchange – Elements of a Business Analytics Framework for IT. This lays out their view on the different kinds of decision types and maps them to decision frequency. Both in Smart (Enough) Systems and in my blog [...]

I have not really introduced the International Institute for Analytics on the blog yet and, as I am a Faculty member, I thought I should rectify that. The International Institute for Analytics is dedicated to the advancement of analytics in everyday business practices and aims to bring together the world’s leading analytics practitioners and researchers [...]

I am going to be participating in the International Institute for Analytics Office Hours call for December on predictions of for the coming year. Each member of the faculty will discuss what they see happening in their specific areas of focus. Topics include: How will the modest economic growth predictions for 2011 impact the use [...]

Syndicated from International Institute for Analytics I wrote a post called “It’s time to industrialize analytics” for Smart Data Collective a little while ago and it prompted Tom to reply with Agile vs Industrialized. To recap, the key point of my post was that we need to move away from analytics as a pure craft [...]

Syndicated from International Institute for Analytics Tom Davenport was interview recently by the Sloan Business Review on Reengineering your decision making processes about analytics and how companies make decisions. While the interview is mostly focused on manual decision making, many of the points are just as valid when you consider decision management and decisioning technology [...]