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Hugo Chavez should optimize Twitter

June 3, 2010 by Stephen Baker
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Venezuela's charismatic president, Hugo Chavez, is the country's most popular twitterer, with more than half a million followers. A Reuters story details how his Twitter account has become the destination for online supplicants. I just checked out his account, and dozens of requests are pouring in every minute. This volume has led... [read more]

13 Tips for a Better Web Site

June 2, 2010 by Sundeep Kapur
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1 - Choose an effective color that matches your brand. Have less contrast and use no more than three colors. 2 - Give people a place to go next. Make it easy for them to find things. Keep the confusion out and give people simple options. 3 - Focus on site navigation and the search box is king. People know how to 'google' stuff. 4... [read more]

Business Intelligence: It's Hyundai, like Sunday!

April 12, 2010 by Bruno Aziza
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Business Intelligence often is associated with optimization, innovation and prediction. But Business Intelligence and analytics also are powerful tools for sharpening competitive skills.   Not long ago, Fortune magazine detailed the ferocious competitive drive that is turning Hyundai into a global automotive force. Among the... [read more]

Oscar Buzz: Avatar or Inglourious Basterds

March 5, 2010 by Sundeep Kapur
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Last year Slumdog Millionaire walked away with most of the awards at the Oscars. The movie was about 'anticipation marketing' & did a very good job engaging people - all the right ingredients for Social Media. Since last year, Social Media has taken on a buzz of its own. There are a number of nominees, a lot of buzz and The... [read more]

First Look – FICO Xpress and Business Rules

February 17, 2010 by James Taylor
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Optimization is a mathematical process for finding the best decision for a given business problem – usually highest profit, lowest cost given a set of constraints. Involve applying an algorithm to data, decision variables, constraints and an objective function. In financial services and insurance optimization is still fairly new (... [read more]

Risk by risk - a decision-centric approach to risk management

February 10, 2010 by James Taylor
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  Risk management is an important topic for many organizations, especially those in financial services. Most of these organizations acquire risk one customer, one transaction at a time - this customer is not going to be able to pay (risk), this transaction is fraudulent (risk), this deal will not make money in the prevailing... [read more]

Huffington Post: Crawling with data addicts

February 5, 2010 by Stephen Baker
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The Huffington Post has recently passed the Washington Post in traffic. It got 410 million page views last month (and 35 million on the iPhone alone). Data is a big part of the site's success. At the media panel at the Webtrends conference this week, Huffington Post's chief technology officer, Paul Berry, described some the methods.... [read more]

New IBM study on business analytics and optimization

December 9, 2009 by James Taylor
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Copyright © 2009 http://jtonedm.com James TaylorIBM today released a new report on the progress companies are making adopting business analytics and optimization. The paper is called “Smarter decisions for optimized performance” (love it) and focuses on how companies are using analytics and optimization to “breakaway” – a sports... [read more]