Just because it feels like something is true doesn’t necessarily mean it is so. That’s one of the benefits of analytics: the data can tell you whether or not your instincts are on the right track. For many people, the state of the economy makes it feel like there is a recession happening. But do the numbers actually back that up? Here’s what data can tell us about a recession.More
Alcoholic Ice Cream: Data’s Pivotal Role in a Disruptive Product
PROOF Alcohol Ice Cream pairs alcohol and ice cream, delivering its pints directly to retail partners or through alliances with handpicked distributors. It also ships directly to customers through its online store. All of this is the result of years of data collection as the company’s co-founders worked to find the right combination of ice cream and alcohol, and then to find a market for the product. The result was a product that didn’t just disrupt one industry, but made an impact in two: ice cream and beverage alcohol.More
How Analytics Can Make a Difference in the Radiology Department
In a radiology department, the amount of data that is collected can be overwhelming. From the coordination with other departments to the images that are produced to simply scheduling machine usage, everything revolves around data.
With the right tools, though, that data can be used to help the department work at an optimal level, without adding to the burden on the department’s employees. Here are some of the ways analytics can be applied to the work that happens in a healthcare system’s radiology department.More
How Hospitals Can Use Data to Go Green
How can a place that does so much good end up being so bad for the environment? That’s the counterintuitive part to many people about hospitals and healthcare, an often-overlooked industry when it comes to impact on the environment. When you stop and think about all of the waste, the equipment delivery, and the non-stop electricity coursing through hospital buildings, though, it starts to make a lot more sense.More
Supply Chain Presents an Olympian Hurdle
For organizations that deal with the global supply chain, making an adjustment at this time of year is nothing new. The Lunar New Year is the most important holiday in China, and it typically falls between the end of January and the end of February. Companies know the holiday is coming and the impact it will have, and they know what to do to adjust. This year’s Lunar New Year, though, which was beginning to look like an opportunity for the supply chain to right itself, might end up causing even more problems.More
Rethinking Logistics and How the Government is Getting Involved
Over the past year-plus, the supply chain has seen a remarkable number of changes. Organizations have had to adjust to various disruptions, and many have used those adjustments to re-think how they handle their logistics.
More changes could be on the way, because now governments are getting involved. In the United States, the Biden administration is taking steps to decrease reliance on other countries for certain products. Across the Atlantic, the European Union is setting climate goals that will impact a number of industries. Data will play an even more important role in logistics moving forward. Here’s what your organization needs to know about the latest changes impacting the supply chain.More
Looking on the Bright Side of Logistics
So much of the news over the past year regarding the supply chain and logistics has been negative. Everything from bare supermarket shelves at the beginning of the pandemic to huge backups at the ports as Brexit affected global trade provided images that illustrated the dire circumstances the world was facing. Optimists, though, can see a bright side—a supermarket shelf half full, if you will. John Sucich looks at the brighter side in more detail.More
Analytics Provides the Road Map to the Supply Chain’s Uncertain Future
For some companies, 2020 exposed gaps in their supply chain that proved devastating. For others, the events of this year provided them with a chance to take a step back and figure out what worked and what needed to be changed moving forward. The supply chain has perhaps never been more transparent than it is right now. Here are some ways that companies are working to make sure their supply chain is scrutinized in a positive rather than a negative light.More
How the Meat Processing Industry is Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic
With some states in the USA lifting stay-at-home orders and allowing certain businesses to reopen, focus has shifted to the supply chain. What will be available and what will be missing because of disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic?
The meat processing industry has been one of the industries most affected by the coronavirus.More
Experimenting with Nationwide Higher Ed Analytics
The United Kingdom has spent the past year using a national learning analytics service. Institutions in England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland pool their resources and have opportunities to learn together about how to best use learning analytics. Here’s what collaboration around learning analytics through a diverse group of colleges looks like.More
How Artificial Intelligence Is Being Used in Higher Education
Colleges and universities are using data in ever-growing ways. They analyze data in order to figure out which programs are doing well or whether new programs need to be added. They then examine the data to identify past patterns that might help predict what will happen next. And the data is increasingly being put to work in the field of artificial intelligence.More
Lessons Learned from a Technological Transformation Gone Wrong
It is a tense time in the world of higher education. The schools that aren’t putting pressure on themselves to respond to popular trends and try to stay ahead of the curve are certainly receiving pressure from their communities to do so – whether it’s from a Board of Trustees or reflected in feedback from students and parents.More
