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Managerial Analytics: Powering Your Career
Every manager today may not have the need to know how to program in R or SQL but every manager at every level needs to know how to solve key business challenges using data analytics. This podcast is dedicated to helping managers around the globe to hone their skills and knowledge around managing data to solve the business challenges they face.
Episodes
12 episodes
Behavorial vs. Predictive Analytics
There's lots of hype behind the power of predictive analytics these days. Dave asks: Why isn't everyone doing it if it promises to be a way to improve your chances of a sale? Primarily because it isn't easy. In this firs...
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Millennials and Data Anaytics
In this segment, Dave discusses his thoughts on a recent Wall Street Journal (Dave's favorite paper) article on how millennials are causing grocers heartburn because they can't seem to get them to spend more time in their stores or online buyin...
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4:40
Today's Manager and Big Data
How is big data impacting managers? You can't be successful today without understanding how to work with data and get the most out of it to solve business problems of all shapes and sizes.institutemanagerialanalytics@gmail.com
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4:41
Customer Profitability: Three Key Questions
Three key questions related to customer profitability that every manager should be asking. Co-author of "The New Marketing Analytics" David Dirks discusses his observations & insights on data & managerial analytics in his shor...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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5:11
Where Will The Next Gen of Data Scientists & Analysts Come From?
From my estimation, we are woefully under-preparing the current and next generations of data-oriented employees. Dave discusses his concerns about the shortages of data experts - including his idea to have junior and senior high school ac...
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Episode 8
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6:43
Amazon Prime & Data Analytics
Amazon is a wonderful business model to study. One specific area as a marketer that appeals to me is its ability to create ways to expand its data sets on its customers. Amazon uses its excellent Prime service as a way to collect th...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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5:04
Loyalty Programs & Data Analytics
What's the most valuable but under-utilized data in most businesses? Their customer service data! Organizations that collect customer service data very often don't think to mine it for insights and use it as one data set to integrate into...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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5:46
Predictive Analytics: Consider this First...
Before anyone even thinks about investing time and resources into moving towards predictive analytics for marketing - Dave covers three important considerations that can impact predictive analytics effectiveness: data accuracy, data refresh rat...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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8:43
Small Business & Big Data Spells Opportunity
In the media hype behind Big Data, we often forget that small business enterprises can also take advantage of data analytics. The challenge is that many businesses - even as we speak - still haven't either captured critical data and/or ha...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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5:41
The Opportunity of Customer Analytics
What's the most valuable but under-utilized data in most businesses? Their customer service data! Organizations that collect customer service data very often don't think to mine it for insights and use it as one data set to integrate into...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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3:10
Manager Alert: Beware of Algorithm Bias!
We often take for granted that the algorithms we have in our applications that help us crunch and analyze data are without any bias. As if they were constructed in a vacuum. The reality is much different. In this podcast, recorded a...
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Episode 2
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3:19
Data Governance in 7 Minutes
If your organization hasn't made an effort to govern the vast data it has from one end of the organization to the other, it might be your opportunity to help it along. Establishing the "rules of the road" in context to how your organizati...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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