Q&A: Business Intelligence and Analytics for Decision Making

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This presentation with Gary Cokins will cover:

  • Learning why business analytics and leveraging Big Data provide a competitive advantage.

  • Understanding the difference between business intelligence (BI) and business analytics.

  • How to imbed statistics and analytics into enterprise performance management (EPM) methods.

  • How to differentiate forecasting from predictive modeling.

  • Learning alternative approaches to accelerating the adoption rate of business analytics.

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Q&A questions answered by Gary Cokins.

Q: Based on your observations what is a major lesson learned by organizations attempting to broaden the adoption rate of applying analytics?

Q: Why is the CFO and accounting function so many years behind with embracing the use of advanced analytics.

 

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Author: Gary Cokins

Gary Cokins (Cornell University BS IE/OR, 1971; Northwestern University Kellogg MBA 1974) is an internationally recognized expert, speaker, and author in enterprise and corporate performance management (EPM/CPM) systems. He is the founder of Analytics-Based Performance Management LLC www.garycokins.com. He began his career in industry with a Fortune 100 company in CFO and operations roles. Then 15 years in consulting with Deloitte, KPMG, and EDS (now part of HP). From 1997 until 2013 Gary was a Principal Consultant with SAS, a business analytics software vendor. He is now a strategic advisor for ERPFixers. His most recent books are Performance Management: Integrating Strategy Execution, Methodologies, Risk, and Analytics and Predictive Business Analytics.