Analytics Section

2011 INFORMS Annual Meeting Analytics Track Presentations

The following “Analytics Process” videos were filmed at the 2011 INFORMS Annual Meeting. Organizations want to take advantage of tools and techniques to improve their decision making but don’t always know how to start. View these on-demand videos from top-notch analytics experts to improve your analytics maturity.

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A Conceptual Framework of Business Analytics Success

Avjit Sarkar, University of Redlands School of Business

Estimating the potential benefits and appropriate level of investment for improved decision support is often the first step in a comprehensive analytics effort. Drawing on examples across a range of industries, this presentation highlights processes, analytics, and lessons learned that appear to have widespread applicability when conducting an "Opportunity Analysis."



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Hunting as a Pack: Roles and Responsibilities of IT and OR

Doug Mohr, UPS

Analytics is seen as a complete business problem solving and decision making process that enables the creation of business value. This talk will discuss the roles and responsibilities of IT and OR in delivering business solutions.



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Descriptive Analytics and OR

Irv Lustig, IBM

We will give a short introduction to descriptive analytics, and describe some relationships to work that operations research practitioners do on a regular basis. If you analyze and visualize data, you're doing descriptive analytics, whether you know it or not!



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Analytics - Where is it Headed?

Jack Levis, UPS

Businesses have learned that data and Analytics can be a competitive advantage. This is leading to an explosion in the use of Analytics in organizations, and a need for professionals. INFORMS needs to adjust its product offerings to become the premiere organization for Advanced Analytics professionals. We will discuss the current status and future direction for these important initiatives.



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Organization Analytic Maturity Factors

Norm Reitter, CTC

Businesses have learned that data and Analytics can be a competitive advantage. This is leading to an explosion in the use of Analytics in organizations, and a need for professionals. INFORMS needs to adjust its product offerings to become the premiere organization for Advanced Analytics professionals. We will discuss the current status and future direction for these important initiatives.



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No Crystal Ball Required - Predictive Analytics for Business

Udo Sglavo, SAS

Analytics have historically served the need to understand what has happened in the business to get where we are today. Now the power of analytical models has grown to where they have direct impact on company performance. Companies are employing predictive analytics for exploring and analyzing data to help uncover patterns and insights that drive evidence-based decision making. This presentation explores the role of predictive analytics techniques, tools and case studies in this exploding arena.



M.S. Degrees in Analytics

Michael Gorman, University of Dayton; Diego Klabjan, Northwestern University; Helmut Schneider, Louisiana State University; Kenneth Gilbert, University of Tennessee; Michael Rappa, NC State University

This panel brings together program leaders from four universities to discuss the emergence of Master of Science degrees in the field of Analytics. The panel will highlight educational goals, curricula, skill sets and learning strategies for achieving successful student outcomes for analytics practitioners.



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2013 INFORMS Conference on Business Analytics and O.R.
April 7-9, 2013
San Antonio, Texas
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Michael F. Gorman, Ph.D.
937-229-3382
michael.gorman@udayton.edu

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