SCTR7: Data Science and Analytics

Analytics professionals should keep a persistent eye open for opportunities to create cross-functional insights from data. Insights can frequently be leveraged across multiple business domains. However, business silos can restrict ‘forest for the trees’ visibility. To the degree analytics has cross-functional exposure in the organization, for instance via a C-level champion and an Analytics Center […]

Business analytics model risk (part 0 of 5): framing model risk – the complexity genie and the challenge of deciding on decision models Introduction to a series of five articles on model risk Here we introduce a series of five articles seeking to frame, define, and categorize business analytics model risk.  The intention is to […]

Blogging from the 2013 INFORMS conference on Business Analytics and Operations Research in San Antonio, Texas, I would like to offer a big Texas ‘gefeliciteerd’ to the CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis for their 2013 INFORMS Edelman Award for Operations Research and Management Science excellence achievement.  As well, congratulations on the impending coronation of Willem […]

With 70% of the earth’s population expected to be living in urban settings by 2050, architecting sustainable cities via efficient resource supply chains is a major human imperative.  Whereas the technical infrastructures for advanced ‘smart city’ initiatives have been rapidly developing, an understanding of the associated political and economic dynamics raised by these emerging tools […]