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8th Annual Business Insight Forum
The End of the Great Recession of 2007 to 20XX (715 KB, PDF)
Jack Bishop
Building a Culture of Innovation (12 MB, PDF)
Peter Hanik
Sustainability Management for Manufacturing Based Companies
Mike Newkirk
Key Performance Indicators in the New Economy
Tim Pletcher
Visual Intelligence: The Value of Location-Based Information
Tony Bansal
Research Committee Meeting
The Value of Innovative Analytics (1 MB, PDF)
Glenn Meyers
Structured Innovation (4 MB, PDF)
Peter Hanik
Data in the Life of a Change Agent
Jack Bishop
Using Geographic Information to Identify Business Opportunity
Bin Li
Research Committee Meeting
Protecting PII in the Development and Test Environment through Intelligent Data Masking (755 KB, PDF)
David Proksch, Sr. Software IT Specialist, IBM Information Management
Solutions
The Dark Side of Advanced Analytics: The Potential for Unethical or Illegal
Use of the Technology
Moderator: Tim Pletcher, CMU-RC
Preparing the Data Mining data: Techniques for harmonizing and integrating
information from disparate datasets
Speaker: Jim Mentele, CMU-RC
Open-Source Data Management: A Look at Extract, Transform and Load
(ETL)
Robin Fross, Talend
New Company Introduction: Domino’s Pizza
7th Annual Business Intelligence Forum: Using Analytics and Predictive Modeling
Location: Industrial Engineering and Technology Building
Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI
Competing on Analytics in Turbulent Times (751 KB, PDF)
Speaker: Tom Davenport, co-author of the book Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning
A Cornucopia of Advanced Analytics to Weather the Storm in Turbulent Times (2 MB, PDF)
Speaker: Tim Rey, Manager - Data Mining and Modeling, The Dow Chemical Company
From Child's Play to Research Project to Successful Commercial Venture
Speaker: Robin Burgener, inventor of the 20Q game
Using Model-based Decision Making in Turbulent Times (696 KB, PDF)
Speaker: Jim Mentele, CMU-RC
SAP Location Intelligence - Geospatial Support for Business Users
Speaker: Oliver Mainka, SAP
Utilizing Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to Comply with Federal Pipeline Regulations
Jim Warner, Consumers Energy
Pandemic Flu and IT Preparedness - an example of risk management (661 KB, PDF)
Speaker: Kas Kasravi, EDS
Simulation (2 MB, WMV)
Data Visualization; a necessary ingredient in making BI effective and realizing analytic excellence
Jon Weisz, JMP Marketing Director.
Stochastic Programming for Decision Making in an Uncertain Environment (690 KB, PDF)
Speaker: Jeff Linderoth, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Panel Discussion: "Business Intelligence: Who is walking the walk not just talking the talk"
Research Committee Meeting
Location: CMU-RC, Mount Pleasant, MI
Technology Wave Market Simulation (471 KB, PDF)
Phil Jackson, EDS
Stochastic Programming for Decision Making in an Uncertain Environment
Jeff Linderoth, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Round table Discussion: “In House vs. Outsourcing Analytics – Pros and Cons, Challenges, Intellectual Property Issues” (57 KB, PDF)
Complex Systems: Help with BI Challenges (679 KB, PDF)
Phil Tuchinsky, CMU-RC
Business Leadership Summit: Master Data Management: Quality Data for Advanced Analytics
Location: Cook-DeVos Center for Health Sciences (hosted by Spectrum Health)
301 Michigan St. NE
Grand Rapids, MI
Collaborative Data Integration and MDM: The Big Picture (2 MB, PDF)
Ken Hausman, SAS Institute
Concepts and Customer Value in the MDM space: The What, Why and Who of Multiform Master Data (220 KB, PDF)
Stephen Zander, WW Solutions Strategist, HCLS, Information Management,
IBM Software Group
Master Data Management in Healthcare
Tim Pletcher, Director of Applied Research, CMU-RC
Centralized MDM - What are the best practices around launching an MDM strategy? (2 MB, PDF)
Jim Whyte, Enterprise Data Architect, The Dow Chemical Company
Positioning Technology and Resources in a "Service Center" Delivery Setting (9 MB, PDF)
Eric Swanson, Director, Michigan Center for Geographic Information
Open forum for discussion and questions
Business Leadership Summit: Regulatory Policy and Management
OFIS: A Compliance Overview
J.R. Beauboeuf, Office of Financial and Insurance Services, State of Michigan
Utilizing GIS for Compliance in the Natural Gas Industry (5 MB, PDF)
Jim Warner, Consumers Energy
The Tread Act - Lessons Learned (515 KB, PDF)
Brian Westenberg, Senior Principal, Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone, P.L.C.
Basel II Compliance (832 KB, PDF)
Randi Kornstein, IT Specialist, and Tom Schenfeld, Basel II Operational Risk Specialist, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Achieving Sarbanes Oxley Compliance Using IBM Rational’s ClearQuest and ClearCase (475 KB, PDF)
Tony O'Neill, ACS, Inc.
Research Committee Meeting
Location: The Lansing Center, Lansing, MI
The Line, The Stitch and the War room: Building a Business Intelligence Competency Center
Mark Moorman, SAS Institute
Technologies and Services to Support Virtual Work (142 KB, PDF)
Dr. Alan McCord, Professor of Management, Lawrence Technological University
Dow’s Most Effective Technology for Data Mining and Modeling Projects
Tim Rey, Manager, Data Mining and Modeling, The Dow Chemical Company
Michigan Leadership Summit on Business Intelligence and Advanced Analytics: The New Wave of Marketing
Location: The Michigan League, 911 N. University, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
The Interplay of Marketing and Advanced Analytics (1 MB, PDF)
CMU-RC, Business Insight Services
Demystifying Forecasting: Can you handle the truth? (707 KB, PDF)
Charles Chase, Business Enablement Manager, SAS Manufacturing & Supply Chain Global Practice
Understanding Customer Segments: Conjoint Analysis & Maximum Difference Scaling (474 KB, PDF)
Mike Garver, Associate Professor of Marketing, Central Michigan University
3D Internet and Virtual Worlds
Linda Ban, Client and Program Strategy Executive, 3D and Digital Convergence, IBM Research
Mining Data from the Web and Converting it into Market Action (1 MB, PDF)
Janet Eden-Harris, CEO, Umbria
Google @ Work
Kurt Layson, Google Enterprise
Research Committee Meeting
Location: The Michigan League, Ann Arbor, MI
Company Introduction: R. L. Polk (668 KB, PDF)
"New Developments in GATE (General Architecture for Text Engineering)" (4 MB, PDF)
Atanas Kiryakov, GATE
Presentation: "Stay on Top of the World" - Global Intelligence Gathering, GLTaC (Global Language Translation and Consulting) (4 MB, PDF)
Roundtable Discussion: “Blogs and Web Content – 100,000 Monkeys Typing or Valuable Information?”
Technology Briefing
Location: CMU Troy Center
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Tim Pletcher, Director of Applied Research, CMU-RC
SAS Presentation: “Enterprise Analytical Delivery Platform"
Melissa Hinkle
ESRI Presentation: "Business Analyst Server"
IBM Presentation: "Dynamic Warehousing"
Nancy Kopp, Business Unit Executive
CMU-RC Presentation:
"Getting started with Advanced Analytics: CMU-RC Business Insight Services"
Tim Pletcher, Director of Applied Research
Michigan Leadership Summit on Business Intelligence and Advanced Analytics: Corporate Performance Management
Location: Automation Alley - 2675 Bellingham Drive, Troy, MI 48083
Building Alignment and Accountability in Performance Management (4 MB, PDF)
Becca Goren, SAS
Performance Management - A DTE Case Study (102 KB, PDF)
Michael Khoury and Sofia Antony, DTE Energy
Search for the Holy Grail: Best Practices for KPIs and Predictive Analytics (376 KB, PDF)
Kent Bauer, Enterprise Performance Management Solutions, Retail & CPG,
Infosys Technologies Ltd.
Use of Simulation to Evaluate Future Scenarios (2 MB, PDF)
Dr. Onur Ulgen and Steve Beeler, PE, PMC.
Dashboard Design - An Oxymoron?: The next Generation of Dashboards (3 MB, PDF)
Dan Dubriwny, IBM
6th Annual Business Intelligence Forum: Meeting Global Challenges Through Analytics: Best Strategies and Practices
Location: Park Library Auditorium, 250 E. Preston Street,
Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI
The Value of Business Intelligence/ Advanced Analytics for Global Corporations (11 MB, PDF)
Mario Leone, Chief Information Officer, Federal-Mogul
Enterprise Strategic Decision Management: A new Source for Innovation and Action (1 MB, PDF)
Gary DeGregorio, Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff, Motorola Labs
Business Intelligence at Whirlpool: An overview of our journey with a focus on infrastructure and the formulation of a strategy (588 KB, PDF)
Jason Berryhill, GIS, Enterprise Architecture, Whirlpool
Your Best Attainable Outcome - How to determine your best path forward using Game Theory
Mike McGlogan, Open Options
Forecasting Aligned with Business Processes (643 KB, PDF)
Jim Mentele, Senior Research Fellow, CMU Research Corporation
Organizing for Analytics, The Role of Information Technology (571 KB, PDF)
Tim Pletcher, Director of Applied Research, CMU Research Corporation
International Data Sources (8 MB, PDF)
Patrick McDevitt, Vice President of Global Engineering, TeleAtlas
Business Visualization (632 KB, PDF)
Jon Weisz, Director of JMP Marketing, SAS
Market Planning and Optimization (1 MB, PDF)
David Huffman, Commercial Sales Manager, ESRI
Research Committee Meeting
Location: CMU-RC Mount Pleasant, MI
CMU-RC Updates
What's Happening at CMU? - Part 1
Integrating SAP into CMU College of Business MBA Undergraduate Programs (545 KB, PDF)
Frank Andera
Case Study: “Driving Decision Excellence by Leveraging Enterprise Strategic Decision
Management – a proposal for IEEE P1694”
Gary DeGregorio, Motorola
BI Clinic: “Business Applications of Game Theory: Players, Options, and Interests; Insights,
Strategy and Tactics”
Niall Fraser, Open Options
What's Happening at CMU? - Part 2
What’s New in the GIS Department (1 MB, PDF)
Bin Li
Round table Discussion: “How close are we to point and click modeling and analytics tools
that really work?”
Michigan Leadership Summit on Business Intelligence and Advanced Analytics: The New ROI - What is your Return On Information?
Location: Automation Alley, Troy, MI 48083
The Enterprise Analytics Journey: Establishing a Corporate Data Mining and Modeling Competency Center (2 MB, PDF)
Tim Rey, Data Mining Capability Group Leader, The Dow Chemical Company
Text Mining on a Budget: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle (5 MB, PDF)
Presenter: Thomas A. Montgomery, PhD., Ford Motor Company
Patent Mining: Discovery of Business Insights from Patent Data
Kas Kasravi and Maria Risov, EDS
The Path to Better Decisions: A BI and Analytics Roadmap (835 KB, PDF)
Tim Pletcher, Director of Applied Research, CMU Research Corporation (CMU-RC)
Business Analysis at Procter & Gamble (3 MB, PDF)
Glenn Wegryn, The Procter & Gamble Company
Research Committee Meeting
Location: CMU CEL Troy Center, Troy, MI
"Managing Complexity" (179 KB, PDF)
Glenn Dunn, Director, Simplicity Initiative, Steelcase
"Agent-based Modeling for Business" (368 KB, PDF)
Michael North, Deputy Director of the Center for Complex Adaptive Agent Systems Simulation, Argonne National Laboratory
"Modeling Word of Mouth and the Enterprise with Complexity Science"
Bruce Tedesco, President, Tedesco Analytics
BI Framework
Jim Mentele, CMU-RC
Innovation Portals
Tim Pletcher, CMU-RC
Michigan Leadership Summit on Global Risk Management: Business Continuity and Managing Risk
Location: VisTaTech Center, Schoolcraft College, Livonia, MI
Welcome: Managing Risk is No Longer an Option
Tim Pletcher, Director of Applied Research, CMU-RC
Managing Risk in Today's Environment: New Requirements, New Risks, New Responsibilities
Speaker: Vincent E. Morris, Director of Risk Management, Wheaton College
Case Study: The Agile CFO: The Convergence of Performance and Risk Management (364 KB, PDF)
Margaret J. Pommert, Business Performance Management Consultant, IBM Global Business Services
Case Study: Risk Management: Benefits of using Geographic Information Systems for Business Continuity Planning
Kevin Bolger, Senior Account Manager, ESRI and Jason Grootens, Senior Technical Sales Consultant, ESRI
Case Study: All Models are Wrong...Some are Useful
Kevin Small, The Dow Chemical Company
Case Study: Supply Chain Network Risk Management
Dr. Kevin McCormack, CEO, Supply Chain Redesign
Executive Panel: How Successful Companies Have Used BI to Manage Risks
Research Committee Meeting
Location: CMU 2255 Health Professions Building, Mount Pleasant, MI
Piranha - High Volume, Real Time, Data Mining
Video Conference with Oak Ridge National Lab
Tom Potok
Quantitative Analysis in Support of R&D Resource Allocation (567 KB, PDF)
Video Conference with Oak Ridge National Lab
Brett Bosley
Twenty Questions: From Child's Play to Research Project to Successful Commercial Venture (746 KB, PDF) -- Thoughts from the Inventor
Robin Burgener
Stump the Neural Net
National Visualization and Analytics Center: Dealing with Information Overload - Science to Solution
Richard May, Pacific Northwest National Lab
Overview of the BI Framework and Advanced Analytics Roadmap (634 KB, PDF)
Tim Pletcher
FastBit: An Efficient Indexing Technology for Accelerating Data-Intensive Science (760 KB, PDF)
Video Conference with Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
John Wu
Michigan Leadership Summit on Business Intelligence and Advanced Analytics: Strategies and Approaches to Improve Corporate Competitiveness and Increase Innovation through Advanced Analytics
Leveraging Information to Improve Michigan's Global Competitiveness
Teresa Takai, Michigan Department of Information Technology
How to Thrive in the Age of Big Information (1 MB, PDF)
Thornton May, IT Leadership Academy
The Dow BI Value Equation (542 KB, PDF)
Mike Costa, The Dow Chemical Company
Analytics as a Mechanism to Manage Innovation (2 MB, PDF)
Bruce Wong, General Motors Corporation
Creating Your Corporate BI Road Map (637 KB, PDF)
Tim Pletcher, CMU Research Corporation
Integrating and Visualizing Data to Drive Business Results (835 KB, PDF)
Sue Hall, Steelcase
Using BI to Improve Competitive Position (253 KB, PDF)
Judy Kelly, IBM
5th Annual Business Insight Forum: Implementing Cost Effective Healthcare: Best Strategies and Practices Using Business Intelligence
Location: CMU
Setting the Tone: The Healthcare Challenge (344 KB, PDF)
Robert Moroni, The Leapfrog Group
Using Data to Improve Quality and Contain Costs (130 KB, PDF)
Tina Brown-Stevenson, Aetna
IBM’s Patient-Centric Healthcare Strategy (545 KB, PDF)
George Chedraoui, IBM
Case Study on Achieving Success Through Alignment of Member, Provider, Employer and Community (2 MB, PDF)
Jennie Dulac, Spectrum Health
Dr. Frank Marre, Priority Health
Doug Peterson, Shape
Making Michigan’s Healthcare More Affordable and Accessible (141 KB, PDF)
Janet Olszewski, Michigan Department of Community Health
Partnering for Value: Alternative Approaches to Pay for Performance (1 MB, PDF)
Mark Casmer, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan
Case Study on Using Data Mining to Improve Market Performance
Dr. Morgan Wang, University of Central Florida
Brad Jordan, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida
Data and Text Mining the Electronic Medical Record to Improve Care and Lower Costs (1 MB, PDF)
Patricia Cerrito, University of Louisville
Research Committee Meeting
Case Study: "Applications of a Visualization Tool to Business and Science problems"
David Rothman, Tom Boomgaard (Dow Chemical), and Christian Chabot (Tableau Software)
BI Clinic: A survey of BI visualization tools
IDVSolutions
Jim Keenan
http://www.idvsolutions.com/sites/
iDashboards
Lawrence Pier
http://www.idashboards.com/
MetaCarta
Bob Warren
http://www.metacarta.com/
IBM Alphablox
Dan Dubriwny
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/db2/alphablox/
Round Table Discussion: The future of Adobe Flex and Eclipse for BI visualization
All
Research Committee Meeting
Location: Central Michigan University Troy Center
Round Table: 21st Century Jobs Fund Grant Proposal
Tim Pletcher
Case Study: Advanced Applications of Web Analytics
Caroline Bahler
BI Clinic: The Advanced Analytics Road Map
Creating an Enterprise Reference Architecture
Tim Pletcher
Framing BI for the Enterprise (1003 KB, PDF)
Maria Risov
Vendor Presentation: Commonly used investigative analysis technology and their potential use in commercial applications
Kevin Moore