Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Through innovative solutions delivered within an integrated framework, SAS helps customers at more than 45,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster.

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Magazine Banking Marketing Analysis 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2011

However, a global recession and the inability of CIOs to deliver on business value have tarnished their status. Today's CIOs are under pressure to deliver on requests for innovation, cost reduction, connectivity, and a growing demand for business intelligence. Consequently, the role of the CIO will evolve.

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CIO Chief Information Officer Budgeting Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2012

Today, the new Chief Customer Officer role — a position that I believe most smart companies will create in the upcoming decade — is well-suited to the skills of a CI leader. I'm not suggesting that these folks need to run SPSS, or sit in front of a business intelligence tool all day. MORE ON CUSTOMER INTELLIGENCE.

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Company Business Intelligence CRM Marketing 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

the bottom layer represents the most common type of database inquiry, the standard business intelligence report, evolving toward more advanced types of analytics requiring individuals with more sophisticated skills working with successively lower levels of hypothesis: The pyramid is capped by Knowledge Discovery, the detection of patterns in data.

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Bottom-up Business Intelligence Insurance Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2016

In today’s digitally driven world, companies are competing ferociously for technological skills. It’s the same with data analysts and business intelligence engineers. In fact, it won’t be long before these very skills become commoditized. And yet companies aren’t hiring for them.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2017

They see intelligent systems as solutions for sales, logistics, manufacturing, and business intelligence challenges. However, I also believe that the effective deployment of AI in the enterprise requires a focus on achieving business goals. For them, AI is a competitive advantage, but not part of their core product.

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Technology Hammer Analysis Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2013

You put together ad-hoc teams that involve not only analysts with relevant domain expertise but also represent skills from other domains, which brings new ways of thinking to old analytical problems. Innovation' Here''s how it works in data analysis.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

And yet research from TDWI states that at organizations where 50% of employees have access to business intelligence tools, only 20% of that group actually use them. Our expectations of data are rapidly reaching the same tipping point of other types of innovations that we don’t give a second thought to anymore.

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Call Center Supply Chain Committee Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Product innovation sits at the intersection of R&D, marketing, and business intelligence. Stretching people’s skills sustains a feeling of personal growth and satisfaction. The vast majority of an organization’s competitive muscle will reside across units, more so than within them.

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Competitive Advantage Supply Chain Bureaucracy McKinsey 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2010

SAS – Providing organizations with THE POWER TO KNOW ® SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Given the skills, location and mobility of this work force, how should these resources be allocated most effectively?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2013

CIOs are being tasked with managing internal business systems, cloud-based services, big data innovation, data security, and the 24x7 needs of global customers who access company data on personal devices. Chief "Intelligence" Officer: Fostering business intelligence and getting the right data to the right people.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2016

From IT’s perspective, our company’s Intelligent Technology Index , a survey of 403 senior IT professionals, found that 61% believe mining big data for business intelligence has already had a business impact, followed by the Internet of Things (48%), digital audience expansion (41%), and geotagging and geo-tracking of consumers (39%).

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Marketing Enterprise Architecture Technology Project 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Like Silicon Valley, Singapore has strong research institutions and limited enforcement of noncompete clauses, a condition that academics now suggest can be a major driver of innovation. Like Israel, Singapore is small, with limited natural resources, which means economic growth requires innovative macroeconomic approaches.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Innovating for Value in Health Care. One noteworthy finding was the need for additional investment in information technology to support the new business model. To do this, they will have to be able to access and analyze claims and clinical data, which will require flexible data-warehouse platforms and business intelligence tools.

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