A secret weapon of many top-performing companies today is analytics. Organizations such as Amazon, Harrah's, Capital One and the Boston Red Sox have dominated their fields by employing industrial-strength analytics across a wide variety of activities.
If your company isn't competing on analytics, now is the time to take a look at how doing so can improve enterprise performance and increase your bottom line. In their widely anticipated next Influencer's Webcast, Business Finance and SAS bring together leading experts to demonstrate how you can make analytics central to strategy and transform your business processes to derive maximum value from them.
Register today to view this on-demand webcast.
Panelists
Notable panelists Thomas H. Davenport and David Axson will draw from their real-world management and advisory experience to discuss:- How to become an “analytics competitor” at the enterprise level and the kind of infrastructure, processes and strategies that are needed to make this happen.
- How to use statistics and modeling expertly, resulting in payback in essential management functions such as supply chain, pricing, customer selection and service, human resources, and finance.
- How to transform planning and forecasting to become your company's most valuable management process.
- How to develop forecasts that will identify the ROI that a technology investment will require.
- How to undergo the necessary changes so that your company can compete on the newer, quantitative “turf” that most organizations now face.
Thomas H. Davenport is the President's Distinguished Professor of Information Technology and Management at Babson College. A fellow at Accenture, Davenport has written 10 books, including his latest, Thinking for a Living: How to Get Better Performance and Results from Knowledge Workers. His most recent article, “Competing on Analytics,” appeared in the January 2006 issue of The Harvard Business Review.
David Axson is the founder and president of the Sonax Group, a consulting and advisory firm that works with clients to improve the effectiveness of their business management practices. Prior to forming Sonax, he was a cofounder and chief operating officer of The Hackett Group, the preeminent benchmarking and best practice research firm. Formerly the head of corporate planning at Bank of America, Axson is also the author of Best Practices in Planning and Management Reporting – From Data to Decisions.
