THE HISTORY AND ROOTS OF PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS
Blog #1 discussed the history of predictive analytics going back to 1689 with Lloyds of London, insurance company. Predictive approaches, irrespective of the computing science and machine learning underpinnings, have been here for over 337 years. Blog #2 will define predictive analytics methods in more detail and in particular, I will explore the relevance and history of artificial intelligence.
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SalesChoice Inc. has been officially recognized by the CIO Review in their 2016 annual listing of 20 leading companies that are at the forefront of providing sales management solutions.
Todays sales managers and sales professionals are leveraging social, mobile, big data, and cloud technologies to optimize the way they gain and retain new customers.
SalesChoice CEO Dr. Cindy Gordon started on the topic of sales becoming a science by saying there’s a huge uptick in the market for sales forecasting and analytics.
“Analytics is the most effective factor in modern day sales,” she said.
Toronto, Canada August 18th, 2015. SalesChoice, a Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics company specializing in Making Sales A Science announces a partnership with Obero SPM to help mid-market to enterprise B2B sales companies increase their corporate sales performance.
A 2012 Time-Warner Study on the media consumption habits of Digital Natives (millennials in their twenties who grew up with digital) showed that young people flipped between content across different devices on average 27 times per non-working hour. That’s roughly 13 times in 30 minutes. This is in contrast to
SalesChoice is moving ahead with a Predictive Analytics/Data Sciences Webinar series.
With 40-60% of sales organizations behind in meeting their sales quotas, most Chief Revenue Officers (CROs) are not confident that they will get to their revenue target. According to Accenture and CSO Insights, less than 14% of CRO’s are confident they will make their plans.
Predictive Analytics: Four Attributes
Predictive and prescriptive analytics are new territory to most companies working in big data today. According to Gartner Group, Predictive analytics describes any approach to data mining with four attributes:
Originally posted on ITBusiness on February 7, 2014.
The last post I wrote at ITBusiness defined three market segments: predictive analytics, business intelligence, and big data to help frame a baseline of understanding. This blog post I wanted to continue our conversation and focus on why you should care, or with my western heritage, we always used to say, where is the beef?
