Analytic translation
I love this idea of the analytics community being the "translation layer" within an organization. Customer Lori Bieda introduced the concept in the fourth quarter 2009 sascom column, Lost in translation:For large organizations with many lines of business and deep, rich databases, making sense of information has become a business itself. What is needed now is a “translation layer” to ground businesses in fact-based decision making. The analytics c

Uneasy bedfellows: analysis and intuition?
Yesterday at The Premier Business Leadership Series, I had the tremendous pleasure of attending the panel debate Balancing Intuition and Analytics in Decision Making. The panelists were: Malcolm Gladwell - Best-selling author of Outliers: The Story of Success, Blink and The Tipping Point; Tom Davenport - Best-selling author of Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning and President's Distinguished Professor at Babson College; and Thornton May

You become the hunter and they become the prey
Is it even possible to reduce fraud? This pointed question was asked Tuesday at the SAS Media Day fraud panel. After all, today’s fraudsters are smart, global, networked and hi-tech. As soon as you catch one, another steps in. And once you put a system in place to combat a certain type of fraud, a whole different type of fraud appears that you probably never anticipated. “Fraudsters are very much like a pack of wolves,” says Chris Swecker, corporate fraud consultant and former Assistant Director of the FBI. “And the financial institutions are the prey: They’re really trying not to be the next victim, and they’re trying to outrun each other or hide the best they ca

James Taylor's take on why analytics matters
Decision management expert James Taylor wins the prize for most prolific blogger from The Series. James gives us thorough summaries of great presentations on:

Fun with Fraud? TK George makes it tasty, sharing highlights from SAS Media Day and expert panels on
Analytics maven (and SAS product marketing manager) Tammi Kay George hosted the panel on optimization that Anne-Lindsay Beall wrote about from Monday’s international SAS Media Day, which preceded The Series in Las Vegas (as it does every year). If you read TK's blog, you know that Tammi Kay's in