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How to Compete on Analytics
How Can You Make Performance Management Fun?
What Are We Blogging About?
The Performance Management Exchange
Your Visions for Business Intelligence
Barclays France Improves Customer and Product Profitability



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Dear Readers,
Author and educator Thomas Davenport is one of the 10 "masters of the new economy," according to CIO magazine. His groundbreaking research into how leading companies use analytics shows that if you're not using data to outthink your rivals, then you're missing out on a potent competitive tool. In this issue, he shares key takeaways from his research.

Also in this issue, we've got tips for making performance management fun (yes, really), a new SAS blog and your answers to our BI survey.

Happy reading!

Anne-Lindsay Beall
Editor, SAS Business Report



 

How to Compete on Analytics
Thomas Davenport's article "Competing on Analytics" was the best-selling Harvard Business Review reprint in 2006. To write it, Davenport studied the characteristics of more than 50 leading organizations that have made a commitment to quantitative, fact-based analysis. Why is the January 2006 Harvard Business Review article so popular? We recently asked Davenport that question and discussed further insights from his research.
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How Can You Make Performance Management Fun?
The air carrier that built its business on "making flying fun" has done it again - Southwest Airlines has made implementing performance management not just fun for its employees, but also profitable, says performance management expert Gary Cokins in his most recent article for DM Review.
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What Are We Blogging About?
We're discussing NBA MVPs and the upcoming book SAS for Dummies at the new sascom voices blog. Join the conversation at: blogs.sas.com/sascom.
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The Performance Management Exchange
BusinessWeek and SAS have conducted a survey to learn how C-level executives use performance management to create smart, profitable growth. Read the research results, listen to podcasts with real-world successes and download complimentary resources.
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Your Visions for Business Intelligence
At the end of 2006, we conducted interviews with SAS executives, industry experts and leading research analysts, asking each the same set of questions about the role of business intelligence (BI) in the next two to five years. We published their responses in the first quarter 2007 issue of sascom magazine and online. In those articles, we also invited you, our readers, to offer your perspectives on business intelligence. Here, are some of your responses.
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Barclays France Improves Customer and Product Profitability
Barclays Bank France specializes in providing financial and investment solutions for international, private and corporate customers with high net worth. In a market where market shares are anything but stable, how can valuable customer and product profitability data be translated into increased profits? Patrick Moyon, Director of Management Control, Planning and Project Finance, shares how Barclays France does it.
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