How should a business leader interested in Big Data – whether a newcomer or a professional with analytics experience – develop and implement a major Big Data initiative?

Forecast: Death

Aug 8th, 2014 28m 19s

Predicting mass killings and genocide so that international bodies can intervene and prevent disaster.

Brenda Dietrich: Case Studies from the IBM Vault

Aug 1st, 2014 28m 19s

When former INFORMS President Brenda Dietrich and two colleagues contemplated ways to explain the myriad possibilities for organizations to use analytics, they decided to exemplify their ideas by opening the IBM vault and sharing highlights of

HR Analytics Reduces Employee Turnover

Jun 13th, 2014 28m 19s

High employee turnover is bad for business. Predictive analytics can help you hire employees most likely to remain with your organization and flag veteran employees who may depart. The benefit goes straight to return on investment. Hear Talent

Brand Marketing at Heineken

Feb 7th, 2014 28m 19s

Heineken is a popular beer in the U.S. and across the world not only because of its qualities as a beer but also because of the marketing acumen used to bring it to the public.

Fraud at the Checkout Counter

Feb 7th, 2014 28m 19s

What happens when that slightly used holiday gift is fraudulently returned?

Certifying a CAP Record

Jan 24th, 2014 28m 19s

When Innovative Decisions, Inc. (IDI) committed 11 of its analysts to go for INFORMS CAP (Certified Analytics Professional) certification, it set both a record and an example for other consulting groups and corporations to follow.

Helping Teens Make Life-Changing Decisions

Jan 10th, 2014 28m 19s

Showing young people how to avoid the disastrous choices that can ruin lives – and make the kinds of decisions that help them navigate this most difficult period in a person’s life using ahoona.com, a social network that helps teens share thei

Predictive Analytics and Your Privacy

Dec 6th, 2013 28m 19s

HR departments routinely collect information about their employees. But what happens when they use predictive analytics to predict if someone might leave the company – and that someone is you?

What Analytics Capabilities Do You Need?

Nov 8th, 2013 28m 19s

In a new study, Analytics Skills, Tools, and Attitudes 2013: Analytics capabilities needed now and in the future, Lavastorm Analytics takes a deep look into the way that organizations are employing analytics, what skills gap remains, and what

License to Cheat

Nov 8th, 2013 28m 19s

A heated political controversy in the U.S. surrounds the amount of regulation that government should apply to private industry. A corollary to the issue is a question: can't we all get by with self-regulation? A study in the Oct issue of Manag

Quantifying Analytics Talent

Sep 13th, 2013 28m 19s

Do you want to hire a single analytics professional – or start an analytics department? Using analytics to identify analytics professionals, the HR consultants Talent Analytics have identified the key characteristics of successful analytics pr

Tipping Sacred Cows

Aug 30th, 2013 28m 19s

Sometimes our perceived virTue are really our faults. Kicking bad work habits that masquerade as virTue is the theme of Tipping Sacred Cows by Duke Corporate Education's Jake Breeden. Breeden touched on his suggestions for analytics and O.R. p

Keeping Up with the Quants

Aug 9th, 2013 28m 19s

What do business people need to know about working with analytics and O.R. people if they want the working relationship to be successful? Tom Davenport, who co-authored the groundbreaking Competing on Analytics, is back with a new title, co-wr

Analytics Communication

Jul 19th, 2013 28m 19s

Doing the calculations is one part of your job as an analytics professional. Communicating your results to colleagues and those outside your field is another, and it can be difficult using words and diagrams to make your most important results

Analytics at the Plate

Jun 21st, 2013 28m 19s

Sometimes academics publish and wonder if anyone out there is reading. In the case of Eric Bickel of the University of Texas, he found that one person was. Early in his career Bickel did research on sports analytics/O.R., specifically strategi

Hadoop Anyone?

May 24th, 2013 28m 19s

Big Data provides big challenges, even for experts in advanced analytics and operations research. In this segment recorded at the INFORMS Conference on Business Analytics and Operations Research that took place in San Antonio this spring, Bria

Healthcare analytics: Hospitals and Obamacare

May 3rd, 2013 28m 19s

Like it or not, the Affordable Care Act – dubbed Obamacare by detractors and supporters alike – will become the law of the land in the United States in less than a year. How are hospitals beginning to cope with important data management requir

Soft Skills for Lone Wolves

Apr 19th, 2013 28m 19s

One of the challenges for an expert in any specialized field is explaining highly technical information to internal and external clients. This has been a longstanding problem for consultants in analytics and operations research who work with b

5 Pillars of Prescriptive Analytics

Apr 5th, 2013 28m 19s

In an era when unstructured data from video and other formats is becoming increasingly available for examination, the power of analytics to yield important recommendations is growing. In a column published in the current issue of the INFORMS pu

Blackett: WWWII’s Indispensable Man

Mar 22nd, 2013 28m 19s

English physicist Patrick Blackett had served in the Royal Navy during WWI, leaving to study physics at Cambridge. He brought both experiences to his development of operations research on behalf of the United Kingdom, fighting against a devasta

Bright Contrast in Roles of OR and Analytics

Mar 12th, 2013 28m 19s

Sure operations research and analytics are connected. But when it comes down to professional skills - the hard technical skills and the soft skills that business people need - how similar, and different are practitioners of the two? In a new ex