In & Around Analytics / Oct 2015
Top Stories
Extreme Events for Insurers: “Complete cycle of extreme event risk management, from identifying experience data sources, to extreme event detection, to modelling and dependence analysis and finally to monitoring and mitigation.”
Key trends expected to accelerate supply chain capabilities
- Bimodal Supply Chain Strategies
- Increased Customer Intimacy
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Emerging Digital Business Models
- http://www.supplychain247.com/article/2015_gartner_supply_chain_top_25_3_key_trends/supply_chain_optimization
Why Your Data Scientists Need to Be Storytellers, and How to Get Them There - More new channels, competition, and distinct segments to manage, as well as shorter product lifecycles, greater price transparency, and higher customer experience expectations, are creating an exponential increase in the amount of available marketing data.
Supply Chain, Tax
According to Gartner, three key trends are expected to accelerate the supply chain capabilities of the top leaders separating them from the rest of the pack:
- Bimodal Supply Chain Strategies
- Increased Customer Intimacy
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Emerging Digital Business Models
- http://www.supplychain247.com/article/2015_gartner_supply_chain_top_25_3_key_trends/supply_chain_optimization
Green Supply Chain: Dynamics in Energy Production is expected to rapidly decrease the use of fossil fuels through the “self-reinforcing cycle”.
Talent
The Future of Talent Technology - An old mindset still prevails when it comes to structuring HR technology — and it is inhibiting true innovation. Talent technologies are now more valuable than ever with technology bolstering the capability of the entire hire-to-retire spectrum.
- http://www.talentmgt.com/articles/7476-the-future-of-talent-technology -How to Build an HR Analytics
How to Build an HR Analytics Team - In the age of Big Data, business leaders and HR professionals are still learning to combine age-old intuition with analytics when it comes to making workforce decisions. Only 4 percent of the market is currently running sophisticated people analytics, while 50 to 60 percent of companies are still trying to make sense of the data they have. So, where should organizations looking to implement an analytics program begin? Start by hiring the right people. People analytics is intrinsically a multidisciplinary endeavor, and you need a team that can evaluate, approve and implement data-driven decisions across your workforce.
Taking HR Analytics beyond Technologists: Dave Ulrich’s widely adopted model separates the roles in HR into four specializations
Data Technology
What will happen after the Internet of Things matures? What sort of innovation will be possible when 50 billion sensors are interconnected and when the Spark and Hadoop frameworks are processing data sets of unprecedented size in mere minutes, on the hunt for patterns and anomalies? To what degree will automation rule our lives? What opportunities will be truly transformative?
How to Improve Hadoop ROI? With the adoption of any new technology, businesses are tasked with measuring success and demonstrating value to the organization — Big Data is not any different.
EverString Extends AI-Powered Solution for Predictive Marketing - EverString, a leading provider of predictive analytics for sales and marketing, announced the release of EverString Predictive Ad Targeting, an ad targeting solution that is both account-based and fully integrated with predictive scoring and demand generation in a unified platform.
- http://insidebigdata.com/2015/10/13/everstring-extends-ai-powered-solution-for-predictive-marketing/
Demand for data science, data engineering, and development professionals has zoomed as the industry’s product life cycle races up the S-curve. They are being hired for a rash of new solutions as business model innovations ride the technological maturity of big data.