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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
The Dark Side of Advanced Analytics: The Potential for Unethical or Illegal
Use of the Technology
Moderator: Tim Pletcher, CMU-RC
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
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
"Getting started with Advanced Analytics: CMU-RC Business Insight Services"
Tim Pletcher, Director of Applied Research
The Value of Business Intelligence/ Advanced Analytics for Global Corporations (11 MB, PDF)
Mario Leone, Chief Information Officer, Federal-Mogul
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
Organizing for Analytics, The Role of Information Technology (571 KB, PDF)
Tim Pletcher, Director of Applied Research, CMU Research Corporation
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
Forecasting Aligned with Business Processes (643 KB, PDF)
Jim Mentele, Senior Research Fellow, CMU Research Corporation
Analytics as a Mechanism to Manage Innovation (2 MB, PDF)
Bruce Wong, General Motors Corporation
Case Study: Advanced Applications of Web Analytics
Caroline Bahler
BI Clinic: The Advanced Analytics Road Map
Creating an Enterprise Reference Architecture
Tim Pletcher
Quantitative Analysis in Support of R&D Resource Allocation (567 KB, PDF)
Video Conference with Oak Ridge National Lab
Brett Bosley
Executing Sustainable Quality Improvement: Quality Analysis Best Practices
Leo Wright, Manufacturing Industry Strategist, SAS
The Emerging Role of Complexity, Genetic Algorithms, and Agent Based Modeling in Business Applications
Carl Simon, University of Michigan
Case Study: Michael Cavaretta of Ford will discuss the Ford warranty case and the business value.
Case Study: Michael Sullivan of Liability Management Systems will discuss a state of the art predictive warranty case.
Warranty Analysis and Market Research Applications: The value of GIS in the automotive supply industry.
Graham Duthie, Visteon Corporation
CMURC Predictive Warranty Model: Considering multiple variables that contribute to product failure
James Mentele, CMURC
Spatial Analysis: Using GIS and advanced mapping technologies to represent data
Ian Clemens, IDV Solutions
Using International Data for Marketing, Corporation Decision Making and Competitive Analysis.
Tim Pletcher and Jim Mentele
The Value of Innovative Analytics (1 MB, PDF)
Glenn Meyers
Complex Systems: Help with BI Challenges (679 KB, PDF)
Phil Tuchinsky, CMU-RC
Data Visualization; a necessary ingredient in making BI effective and realizing analytic excellence
Jon Weisz, JMP Marketing Director.
The Line, The Stitch and the War room: Building a Business Intelligence Competency Center
Mark Moorman, SAS Institute
The Value of Business Intelligence/ Advanced Analytics for Global Corporations (11 MB, PDF)
Mario Leone, Chief Information Officer, Federal-Mogul
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
BI Framework
Jim Mentele, CMU-RC
BI Clinic: “Business Applications of Game Theory: Players, Options, and Interests; Insights,
Strategy and Tactics”
Niall Fraser, Open Options
The Path to Better Decisions: A BI and Analytics Roadmap (835 KB, PDF)
Tim Pletcher, Director of Applied Research, CMU Research Corporation (CMU-RC)
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
Creating Your Corporate BI Road Map (637 KB, PDF)
Tim Pletcher, CMU Research Corporation
Using BI to Improve Competitive Position (253 KB, PDF)
Judy Kelly, IBM
Integrating and Visualizing Data to Drive Business Results (835 KB, PDF)
Sue Hall, Steelcase
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/
Framing BI for the Enterprise (1003 KB, PDF)
Maria Risov
Case Study: BI & Commercial Margin Optimization
Tim Rey/Dow Chemical
BI Clinic: BI and Fraud Detection Technology and Methods
Doug Wielenga
Case study: Solving Problems Using BI with Geographics
James Akright, GM
Case study: The Challenges of Turning Data into Business Intelligence Solutions
Tony Pittman, Manager, Enterprise Business Information Group, IBM
Linking business systems, manufacturing processes, and data analytics to drive profitable BI
Robert Wojewodka, The Lubrizol Corporation
BI Benchmark Study Preliminary Results
James Cappel, CMU
BI Benchmark Study Update
Dr. Mark Hwang/Dr. James Cappel
BI Benchmark Study Phase II Offering
Kelly Pastula
Using GIS to Extend and Leverage BI Systems (4 MB, PDF)
Steve Benner, ESRI
Central Michigan University BI Related Research Centers:
The Center for Geographic Information Science (CGISc)
Dr. Dave Patton
The Center for Supply Chain Management
Dr. Shanthakumar Palaniswami
The Center for Applied Research and Rural Studies
Dr. Mary Senter
BI Clinic: Advanced applications of GIS in market analysis, site selection and supply chain
optimization.
Steve Benner ESRI
BI Clinic: The link between Grid Computing and Business Intelligence.
Bryan Goodman/Thomas Montgomery, Ford Motor Company
Ramesh Natarajan, IBM Watson Research
BI Case Study: Discussion on the Henry Ford Hospital predictive model project
Mike Meitzner (HFHS) & Jim Mentele (CMURC)
BI Clinic: The current state of machine language translation
Systran Corporation
BI network concept
Tim Pletcher
Opportunities and Challenges for Managing Business Intelligence Initiatives.
Steve Jones, National Routing Manager of Sears will discuss how business intelligence is used at Sears.
Case Study:Jerry Nichols of Cisco will discuss how Cisco uses business intelligence to manage customer relationships
Current approaches to use business intelligence strategies to mitigate risk and uncertainty such as Sarbanes Oxley compliance, Tread Act, and catastrophic events.
Dr. Mike Sullivan, Liability Management Systems
Case Study: Creating a Cost-Effective Business Intelligence Capability
Mike Costa, Dow Chemical Company
Business Intelligence Case Study Presentation: Text Mining Case Study (609 KB, PDF)
Jim Mentele (Central Michigan University Research Corp)
Business Intelligence Clinic: Mike Gilger will speak about the successful application of a new BI visualization technique based on KEGS to quickly simplify data representation of large quantities of data.
Opportunities and Challenges for Managing Business Intelligence Initiatives
Dr. Michael Cavaretta, Ford Motor Company
Best Practices and Key Factors to Ensure Successful Business Intelligence Initiatives (463 KB, PDF)
Allan Manning, SAS
Business Intelligence Critical Success Factors: Lessons Learned
Dr. Robert Berry, president/CEO, CMURC
Business Intelligence Best Practices
Chad Janz, SAS
Rising Tide: Creating 10 Years of Increasing Value Through OR at Proctor & Gamble (3 MB, PDF)
Glenn Wegryn, Procter & Gamble
Sense and Respond Systems for Adaptive Business Enterprise (3 MB, PDF)
Steve Buckley, IBM Watson Research
Manufacturing Flexibility and Capacity Investment Optimization (397 KB, PDF)
Mark Everson, Ford Motor Company
Using GIS to Enhance Core Business Processes (4 MB, PDF)
Steve Benner, ESRI
Solving Problems Using People, Process and Technology (443 KB, PDF)
John Shull, Steelcase
Vendor Presentation: Integrating Dun & Bradstreet data with BI, new global resources, how D&B is improving quality for BI Solutions
Bob Preston
Business Activity Monitoring using KEG Based Enterprise Communication: A visual solution for call center, manufacturing, and MRO activities
Kerry Gilger, FYI Corporation
Case Study: Dr. Michael Sullivan, Liability Management Systems, “Managing the Risk of Future Environmental and Product
Liability Claims”
New and Current Business Models Working in Harmony
Mike Lanham, Dow Corning
Cost Control of Procurement, Logistics, and Pricing
Roger Swantek, EDS
Supply Chain Management Best Practices
Mike Murray, IBM
Utilizing GIS for Compliance in the Natural Gas Industry (5 MB, PDF)
Jim Warner, Consumers Energy
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.
OFIS: A Compliance Overview
J.R. Beauboeuf, Office of Financial and Insurance Services, State of Michigan
Business Intelligence Case Studies in Customer Intelligence (1 MB, PDF)
Darren Bourn, EDS
Case Study: Ron Hurd of Harris Interactive - Creating Competitive Advantage through Customer Loyalty Management
Case Study: Dr. Michael Garver, Central Michigan University, “New Approaches to Segmenting Customers”
Revenue Generation Cases Studies With A Focus on Customer Relationship Management and Profitability
Moderated by Dr. Michael Garver, Professor, CMU
Modeling the Customer Loyalty Profitability Link
Tim Rey, Dow Chemical Company
Keeping Profitable Customers
Michael Khoury, DTE
Dow’s Most Effective Technology for Data Mining and Modeling Projects
Tim Rey, Manager, Data Mining and Modeling, The Dow Chemical Company
Mining Data from the Web and Converting it into Market Action (1 MB, PDF)
Janet Eden-Harris, CEO, Umbria
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 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
Piranha - High Volume, Real Time, Data Mining
Video Conference with Oak Ridge National Lab
Tom Potok
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
What Are Your Customer Comments Telling You? A Text Mining Approach
Matt Rottelli, Head, Statistics Division, Oncology and Osteoporosis Platforms, Eli Lilly
An Overview of Sarbanes/Oxley Act of 2002 and Data Mining (123 KB, PDF)
Tom Weirich, CMU
Discussion about data mining, statistical modeling visualization, and advanced statistical process control and Six Sigma at GE.
Dr. Roger Hoerl (GE)
Using SAS @ SAS: The mining of SAS technical support
Annette Sanders, SAS
Business Intelligence Case Study Presentation: Text Mining Case Study (609 KB, PDF)
Jim Mentele (Central Michigan University Research Corp)
Business Value from Data and Text mining at Ford
Dr. Phil Tuchinsky, Ford Motor Company
Collaborative Data Integration and MDM: The Big Picture (2 MB, PDF)
Ken Hausman, SAS Institute
Master Data Management in Healthcare
Tim Pletcher, Director of Applied Research, CMU-RC
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
Centralized MDM - What are the best practices around launching an MDM strategy? (2 MB, PDF)
Jim Whyte, Enterprise Data Architect, The Dow Chemical Company
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
Dow’s Most Effective Technology for Data Mining and Modeling Projects
Tim Rey, Manager, Data Mining and Modeling, The Dow Chemical Company
"Modeling Word of Mouth and the Enterprise with Complexity Science"
Bruce Tedesco, President, Tedesco Analytics
Case Study: All Models are Wrong...Some are Useful
Kevin Small, The Dow Chemical Company
Discussion about data mining, statistical modeling visualization, and advanced statistical process control and Six Sigma at GE.
Dr. Roger Hoerl (GE)
Using Model-based Decision Making in Turbulent Times (696 KB, PDF)
Speaker: Jim Mentele, CMU-RC
Agent-based Modeling for Business (368 KB, PDF)
Michael North, Deputy Director of the Center for Complex Adaptive Agent Systems Simulation, Argonne National Laboratory
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
Making Michigan’s Healthcare More Affordable and Accessible (141 KB, PDF)
Janet Olszewski, Michigan Department of Community Health
Pandemic Flu and IT Preparedness - an example of risk management (661 KB, PDF)
Speaker: Kas Kasravi, EDS
Simulation (2 MB, WMV)
Partnering for Value: Alternative Approaches to Pay for Performance (1 MB, PDF)
Mark Casmer, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan
Master Data Management in Healthcare
Tim Pletcher, Director of Applied Research, CMU-RC
Data and Text Mining the Electronic Medical Record to Improve Care and Lower Costs (1 MB, PDF)
Patricia Cerrito, University of Louisville
IBM’s Patient-Centric Healthcare Strategy (545 KB, PDF)
George Chedraoui, IBM
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
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
Managing Quality using Business Intelligence in Healthcare
John Byrnes, M.D., Sr. Vice President for Quality Systems, Spectrum Health
Henry Ford Health System – Predictive Model for Healthcare (233 KB, PDF)
Mike Meitzner
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.
Dashboard Design - An Oxymoron?: The next Generation of Dashboards (3 MB, PDF)
Dan Dubriwny, IBM
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
Key Performance Indicators in the New Economy
Tim Pletcher
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: Supply Chain Network Risk Management
Dr. Kevin McCormack, CEO, Supply Chain Redesign
Positioning Technology and Resources in a "Service Center" Delivery Setting (9 MB, PDF)
Eric Swanson, Director, Michigan Center for Geographic Information
The Tread Act - Lessons Learned (515 KB, PDF)
Brian Westenberg, Senior Principal, Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone, P.L.C.
Technologies and Services to Support Virtual Work (142 KB, PDF)
Dr. Alan McCord, Professor of Management, Lawrence Technological University
Stochastic Programming for Decision Making in an Uncertain Environment (690 KB, PDF)
Speaker: Jeff Linderoth, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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
SAP Location Intelligence - Geospatial Support for Business Users
Speaker: Oliver Mainka, SAP
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
Technology Wave Market Simulation (471 KB, PDF)
Phil Jackson, EDS
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
Google @ Work
Kurt Layson, Google Enterprise
SAS Presentation: “Enterprise Analytical Delivery Platform"
Melissa Hinkle
ESRI Presentation: "Business Analyst Server"
IBM Presentation: "Dynamic Warehousing"
Nancy Kopp, Business Unit Executive
"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)
Use of Simulation to Evaluate Future Scenarios (2 MB, PDF)
Dr. Onur Ulgen and Steve Beeler, PE, PMC
Your Best Attainable Outcome - How to determine your best path forward using Game Theory
Mike McGlogan, Open Options
Case Study: “Driving Decision Excellence by Leveraging Enterprise Strategic Decision
Management – a proposal for IEEE P1694”
Gary DeGregorio, Motorola
Innovation Portals
Tim Pletcher, CMU-RC
Enterprise Strategic Decision Management: A new Source for Innovation and Action (1 MB, PDF)
Gary DeGregorio, Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff, Motorola Labs
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
What's Happening at CMU? - Part 1
Integrating SAP into CMU College of Business MBA Undergraduate Programs (545 KB, PDF)
Frank Andera
What's Happening at CMU? - Part 2
What’s New in the GIS Department (1 MB, PDF)
Bin Li
"Managing Complexity" (179 KB, PDF)
Glenn Dunn, Director, Simplicity Initiative, Steelcase
National Visualization and Analytics Center: Dealing with Information Overload - Science to Solution
Richard May, Pacific Northwest National Lab
FastBit: An Efficient Indexing Technology for Accelerating Data-Intensive Science (760 KB, PDF)
Video Conference with Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
John Wu
Leveraging Information to Improve Michigan's Global Competitiveness
Teresa Takai, Michigan Department of Information Technology
Vendor Presentation: Commonly used investigative analysis technology and their potential use in commercial applications
Kevin Moore
Social Network Visualization: Using network communication patterns to highlight significant interactions
Valdis Krebs, Inflow
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
Data in the Life of a Change Agent
Jack Bishop
Sustainability Management for Manufacturing Based Companies
Mike Newkirk
Visual Intelligence: The Value of Location-Based Information
Tony Bansal
Using Geographic Information to Identify Business Opportunity
Bin Li
Structured Innovation (4 MB, PDF)
Peter Hanik