What does the year 2015 hold for those of us in this exciting tech field?

INFORMS Today: The Podcast Series

Top 5 Analytics Trends for 2015

How well do you use analytics? The creators of the INFORMS Analytics Maturity Model discuss what you can do to improve your company’s analytics.

How Mature Are You?

What do new techniques of capturing your personal data mean to your privacy?

What Stays in Vegas

How should a business leader interested in Big Data – whether a newcomer or a professional with analytics experience – develop and implement a major Big Data initiative?

Big Data and Value Creation for Business Leaders

Predicting mass killings and genocide so that international bodies can intervene and prevent disaster.

Forecast: Death

When former INFORMS President Brenda Dietrich and two colleagues contemplated ways to explain the myriad possibilities for organizations to use analytics, they decided to exemplify their ideas by opening the IBM vault and sharing highlights of how they had used analytics internally to solve difficult business problems.

Brenda Dietrich: Case Studies from the IBM Vault

High employee turnover is bad for business. Predictive analytics can help you hire employees most likely to remain with your organization and flag veteran employees who may depart. The benefit goes straight to return on investment. Hear Talent Analytics’ Greta Roberts on why analytics is becoming an important part of human resources and contributing to the bottom line.

HR Analytics Reduces Employee Turnover

What happens when that slightly used holiday gift is fraudulently returned?

Fraud at the Checkout Counter

Heineken is a popular beer in the U.S. and across the world not only because of its qualities as a beer but also because of the marketing acumen used to bring it to the public.

Brand Marketing at Heineken

When Innovative Decisions, Inc. (IDI) committed 11 of its analysts to go for INFORMS CAP (Certified Analytics Professional) certification, it set both a record and an example for other consulting groups and corporations to follow.

Certifying a CAP Record

Showing young people how to avoid the disastrous choices that can ruin lives – and make the kinds of decisions that help them navigate this most difficult period in a person’s life using ahoona.com, a social network that helps teens share their decision dilemmas and solutions with their peers.

Helping Teens Make Life-Changing Decisions

HR departments routinely collect information about their employees. But what happens when they use predictive analytics to predict if someone might leave the company – and that someone is you?

Predictive Analytics and Your Privacy

In a new study, Analytics Skills, Tools, and Attitudes 2013: Analytics capabilities needed now and in the future, Lavastorm Analytics takes a deep look into the way that organizations are employing analytics, what skills gap remains, and what departments are using analytics talent.

What Analytics Capabilities Do You Need?

A heated political controversy in the U.S. surrounds the amount of regulation that government should apply to private industry. A corollary to the issue is a question: can't we all get by with self-regulation? A study in the Oct issue of Management Science draws strong conclusions from experiments conducted by three researchers. Find out what the investigators would recommend to the U.S. Congress.

License to Cheat

Do you want to hire a single analytics professional – or start an analytics department? Using analytics to identify analytics professionals, the HR consultants Talent Analytics have identified the key characteristics of successful analytics professionals.

Quantifying Analytics Talent

A series of podcasts with unexpected insights into the way that math, analytics, and operations research affect people like you and organizations like your own. In every segment, an expert explains how he or she changed the world by crunching the numbers. (www.informs.org).

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INFORMS Today: The Podcast Series

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