Yan Krupnik graduated from Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada, and is currently the Business Development Manager at Retalon, the world’s leading provider of predictive analytics for retail. Since 2002 Retalon has optimized pricing, inventory management, merchandising, planning, and marketing operations for retail organizations in a variety of industries. Retalon products range from task-oriented solutions to
Greta Roberts is an acknowledged influencer in the field of predictive workforce analytics. Her continued vision is to bridge the gap between the business, predictive analytics and workforce communities. Since co-founding Talent Analytics in 2001, Greta has...
1). The Future of Predictive Analytics Is Here Now Over the past 10 years, advanced analytics grew exponentially to become one of the hottest topics in business technology. A look at Google Trends reveals an over 300...
Pasha Roberts is chief scientist at Talent Analytics Corp., a company that uses data science to model and optimize employee performance in areas such as call center staff, sales organizations and analytics professionals. He wrote the first...
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...
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...