Data Analytics

Tactics must evolve but the mission hasn’t changed As ‘Big Data’ continues to dominate discussions in the analytics space, along comes the notion of ‘Big Data Analytics’ to add confusion in the marketplace. If big data analytics warrants its own discipline, then its methodologies and approaches should be significantly different …

Intelligence: According to Merriam-Webster it’s “the ability to learn, understand or to deal with new or trying situations.” Intelligence is what market trailblazers like data centre giant Q9 and health benefits manager Express Scripts Canada have in massive proportions. Express Scripts is a Fortune 50 company with over $100 billion …

Since its founding after World War II, the United Nations Children’s Fund, or UNICEF, has saved more children’s lives than any other humanitarian organization. And for 60 years, UNICEF Canada has contributed to the cause by raising money for food, health care, sanitation and educational programs—$35 million this past year …

The world is awash in data, most of it unstructured, and the volume is growing rampantly. Consider that by 2020, it’s expected there will be 44 zettabytes of data in the world—the equivalent of 170 newspapers being delivered daily to every man, woman and child on the planet. What’s more, …

With so much emphasis on analytics for business decision making these days, I often find myself reminding marketers about the importance of the quality of the data they are using—not just the quantity. To develop data-driven insights, marketers first need to address the question of what data is valuable to …

We as marketers are very lucky to be witnessing a time of great development and exciting change in our industry. For years now, we have been discussing the notion of one-to-one marketing, but without the real technologies and capabilities to fully act on this big idea. Today, the marketing industry …

  For most Canadians living outside the province, Quebec is both a source of pride and a bit of a mystery. Canadians like the fact that the country is home to two strong cultural groups that, for the most part, are able to live and work together harmoniously. But for …

As you prepare to spend the rest of the year gathering with family and eating copious amounts of ham and turkey, you’re most likely spending these final few work weeks buried in annual data reviews, strategic planning meetings and other discussions to help build momentum for your 2016 marketing strategy. …

Many successful organizations around the world have tapped into the power of data analytics to improve their business operations. Analytics has also risen in corporate rank and often now holds a seat at the executive table. Those companies that have taken this data-centric approach glean accurate insights that directly inform …

By Mike Poyser Previously, I have talked about the importance of bringing together different data sources into an “intelligent data” single view of the customer, and then about how multiple segmentation can be used to create a much better understanding of your different consumers, enabling your company to start becoming …