A Conceptual Framework of Business Analytics Success - Avijit 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 acr...

Presented by Yves Crama IFORS Distinguished Lecture 2011 INFORMS Annual MeetingCharlotte, NC

2011 INFORMS Annual MeetingCharlotte, NC - Build, Test, Scale: Innovative Strategies that are Transforming the U.S. Healthcare System Susan D. DeVorePresident and Chief Executive Officer, Premier healthcare alliance - Susan DeVore is President and CEO of the Premier healthcare alliance, the nat...

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...

2011 INFORMS Annual MeetingCharlotte, NC - MS Degrees in Analytics - Analytics Session Track Title: Joint Session Analytics/CPMS: Panel Discussion: Educating Analytics Chair: Michael Gorman, Professor, University of Dayton, School of Business - Educating Analytics Practioners: M.S. Degrees in...

IT and OR Hunting as a Pack. 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.INFORMS Annual Meeti...

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 performa...

Organization Analytic Maturity Factors - Norm Reitter, CTC. Emerging as the home for "analytics", we have the opportunity to support competitive value through improved decisions. An Organizational Analytics Maturity Model (OAMM) allows organizations to understand how well their existin...

2011 INFORMS Annual MeetingCharlotte, NC - Studies in Activity Networks: A Guided Tour Welcome and Opening Plenary Salah E. Elmaghraby University Professor of Operations Research and Industrial EngineeringNorth Carolina State University - Activity Networks (ANs) is a model for the planning and...

2011 INFORMS Annual MeetingCharlotte, NC - The Evolution of Analytics Keith CollinsSenior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, SAS - Disciplines like operations research, statistics, forecasting and econometrics have distinct roots and continue to develop in their own right - in resear...

Tutorials in O.R.: Dynamic Optimization in Radiotherapy Archis Ghate, Tutorial ClusterINFORMS Annual Meeting, Charlotte, NC, November 2011

Tutorial #4: Simple Heuristics for Optimal Inventory Policies in Supply Chains Kevin Shang, Tutorials Cluster2011 INFORMS Annual Meeting, Charlotte, NC

2011 INFORMS Annual MeetingCharlotte, NC - Why Good Simulations Go Bad Barry L. NelsonWalter P. Murphy Professor and Chair, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Northwestern University - Simulation is a powerful tool to design, evaluate and improve the kinds of systems...