Anne Robinson, president of INFORMS, has a message for analytics professionals: “Go for it.” INFORMS, formally known as the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, will be there to lend a hand, Robinson told me in a phone interview. Along with the business world as a whole, this global, professional society is intensifying
The traditional balance of business power has shifted. Today, the advantage rests – literally, through mobile devices – in the buyer’s hands. Disrupting the Balance Consumers worldwide are getting more for their money. Because they can easily...
Forrester Wave report urges SAP, IBM and eight other vendors to come up with advanced analytics software that’s less daunting to business users. There were few surprises in the rankings in a “Forrester Wave: Big Data Predictive...
$50 billion. That’s about how much marketers are spending on Big Data and advanced analytics (according to a BMO Capital Markets report) in the hopes of improving marketing’s impact on the business. This commitment reflects a...
The potential of “big data” has been receiving tremendous attention lately, and not just on HBR’s site. With interest in the topic growing exponentially, it has been the focus of countless articles and perhaps too many meetings...
Anne Robinson is the Director of Supply Chain Strategy and Analytics for Verizon Wireless and the President-Elect of INFORMS, the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. Before joining Verizon, she worked for Cisco, most recently...
Operations research is a very analytics-intensive profession. Has that always been known in the industry? Not really. People looking for analytics resources don’t necessarily associate that with operations research. We, the society, decided to take a more...
