Analytics & Business Intelligence

Simulations can help shrink the gap between what analysts try to explain and what decision makers understand.

The NFL’s CIO discusses the organization’s customer-focused approach to big data and analytics.

As sensors and computer-mediated transactions become universal, Google’s Hal Varian warns that organizations need to prepare for a flood of data.

Stories of your competitors’ analytics prowess are probably overblown — so take steps to move forward now.

Companies are having a tough time finding the data scientists they need — but that doesn’t mean those projects need to halt altogether.

A company that wants to successfully use analytics needs to make sure its data scientists are fully integrated into business units.

Hot shots get all the attention, but other team members can be the ones who make a group really tick.

NC State’s Institute for Advanced Analytics is the first business analytics program in the country — and way ahead of its time.

To create real business value, top management must learn how to manage data scientists effectively.

When using analytics becomes a routine practice, four key changes will follow.

Companies seeking to use analytics for predictive decision making commonly make these four errors.

The impulse to collect and store all data on the off chance it might be useful is counterproductive.

Kaiser Permanente is crafting health care’s future with help from its Innovation and Advanced Technology group.

Using data analytics to reinvent health care requires more than just technical know-how — it also requires flexibility.

WellPoint’s efforts to change health care billing highlights the need for an effective innovation process.

Research into how the sports world uses data offers five lessons that almost any business could adopt.

The CIO Council makes the case that greater collaboration among top executives is required if companies are to reap technology’s benefits.

State Street gives itself a data and analytics makeover to meet the challenges of a changing industry.

The 2014 Data & Analytics Report by MIT Sloan Management Review and SAS finds that an analytics culture offers better outcomes.

A recent book by Thomas H. Davenport and Jinho Kim advises companies on how to capture the power of big data.