Podcasts by Ask QueBIT About Analytics

Episode 62: Taking Technology Fandom to the Next Level from 2022-12-14T10:31:28

Episode 62: Taking Technology Fandom to the Next Level

Guest: Christoph Hein

Most of us are ambivalent about the technology we use at work. Ideally, we don’t even want to think abo...

Episode 61: ESG and Sustainability Reporting from 2022-09-01T13:59:20

Episode 61: ESG and Sustainability Reporting Primer

Guest: Bill Primerano

ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) and Sustainability Reporting requirements for businesses are w...

Episode 60: Analytics Shorts: 3 Stories from 2022-07-21T15:02:09

Episode 59: Analytics Shorts: 3 Stories

Guests: Tyler King, Deepak Kumar, A.G. Tan

This week we are showcasing three of QueBIT’s expert consultants: Tyler King, Deepak Kumar and A....

Episode 59: Breaking Down Silos between Finance and Operations from 2022-07-07T12:39:37

Episode 59: Breaking Down Silos between Finance and Operations 

Guest: Amyn Dhamani

Specialized functions – or “Silos” – evolve in companies for a very good reason. It’s simpl...

Episode 58: Whatever happened to IBM Watson? from 2022-05-19T14:40:58

Episode 58: Whatever happened to IBM Watson?

Guest: Mike McGeein, IBM

In early 2011 a computer called Watson, developed by IBM, stunned the world by beating two of the all-time bes...

Episode 57: How to be a Transformative CFO from 2022-04-14T13:39:13

Episode 57: How to be a Transformative CFO

Guest: Brian Frohn

Large influential consultancies like McKinsey, Gartner and others have been talking for several years now about how th...

Episode 56: Predictive Planning for Finance from 2022-03-31T16:01:58

Episode 56: Predictive Planning for Finance

Guest: Justin Croft

How can Artificial Intelligence (AI) help the Office of Finance? Since most of the AI use-cases in the media revolve...

Episode 55: A New Era for Procurement and Sourcing from 2022-03-17T14:16:38

Episode 55: A New Era for Procurement and Sourcing

Guest: Bryan Baum/Anaplan

Procurement and Sourcing are critical functions, especially at companies whose prosperity depends on ma...

Episode 54: Use KPIs to Make Integrated Planning Easy from 2021-12-23T14:27:12

Guest: Deepak Kumar

As a company grows and needs to develop specialized functions such as “Sales”, “Operations” and “Finance”, keeping everyone coordinated and on the same page takes more...

Episode 53: Connecting Supply Planning to Demand from 2021-12-09T15:29:18

Guest: Bruna Garcia

In 2021 “Supply Chain” went from being an esoteric piece of business jargon, to being a household phrase. We will leave it to the popular press to fan the flames of pu...

Episode 52: Allocations for the Insurance Industry from 2021-12-02T18:08:12

Episode 52: Allocations for the Insurance Industry

Guest: Chris Willson

Isn’t profitability the same as revenue? Why does the difference matter?

If these questions sound bor...

Episode 51: Accelerating down the Home Stretch of xP&A from 2021-09-30T14:45:12

Episode 51: Accelerating down the Home Stretch of xP&A

Guest: Andy Weiss

Some of the most important beneficiaries of a good Listen

Episode 50: End-to-end Integrated Planning Processes at Chemtura from 2021-07-29T15:01:09

Episode 50: End-to-end Integrated Planning Processes at Chemtura

Guest: Jessica Quiles

Everyone is talking about Extended Planning and Analysis – or xP&A – these days.&nbs...

Episode 49: The Importance of Data Strategy for xP&A from 2021-07-01T13:32:42

Episode 49: The Importance of Data Strategy for xP&A

Guest: Mike Burke

At which point does the “data” part of your planning project start to take center-stage? When you go beyo...

Episode 48: Hybrid Cloud for Planning, Reporting and Analysis from 2021-06-24T14:25:26

Episode 48: Hybrid Cloud for Planning, Reporting and Analysis

Guest: Mike Cowie

It’s the summer of 2021 and IBM has been airing a series of TV commercials on something called “hybr...

Episode 47: Why xP&A is Not Just Marketing Hype from 2021-06-03T15:27:10

Episode 47: Why xP&A is not just marketing hype

No guest

Extended Planning and Analysis – or xP&A – is having a moment right now. It is the latest piece of jargon being hyp...

Episode 46: Taking the First Step from 2021-05-20T13:10:04

Episode 46: Taking the First Step

Guest: John Sterner

It’s interesting how human beings are used to planning journeys through life – like vacations, going to college, and retiremen...

Episode 45: Software Evaluation Principles from 2021-02-25T14:19:59

Episode 45: Software Evaluation Principles

Guest: Christine Schoenen

There is so much technology being thrown at us each day that deciding which software tools to invest in is over...

Episode 44: The Sad Truth about Data from 2021-02-18T14:04:11

Episode 44: The Sad Truth about Data

No guest.

“Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration” is a famous quote attributed to Thomas Edison. The Listen

Episode 43: 2020, The Year of Analytics from 2020-12-31T14:29:30

Episode 43: 2020, The Year of Analytics

No guest.

2020 was a difficult year on many fronts. It was also a year when companies needed to get more out of analytics technologies, to m...

Episode 42: Launching a Diversity and Inclusion Program from 2020-12-17T18:00:16

Episode 42: Launching a Diversity and Inclusion Program

Guests: Andrew Chavis, Dallas Crawford, Odile Davis-Wolfe & Gus Slaughter

In Episode 39 we talked about how companies th...

Episode 41: From “Spreadsheet Hell” to Better Decisions at Eversource from 2020-12-10T15:24:09

Episode 41: From “spreadsheet hell” to better decisions at Eversource

Guest: Fran Berger

As the largest utility in New England, Eversource has all the planning and reporting needs ...

Episode 40: Why Master Data Management Matters from 2020-12-03T15:27:33

Episode 40: Why Master Data Management Matters

Guest: Clare Hutton

Our clients often ask us whether we “do” Master Data Management (MDM). It’s a good question because Master Data M...

Episode 39: Diversity, Inclusion … and Transformative Analytics from 2020-11-19T18:49:13

Episode 39: Diversity, Inclusion … and Transformative Analytics

No guest

This episode was partly inspired by an article in the November-December 2020 issue of the Harvard Business ...

Episode 38: You Can’t Have Agile Planning Without Building Models from 2020-10-01T20:35:26

Episode 38: You can’t have Agile Planning without Building Models

Guest: Richard Creeth

Most businesses rely on spreadsheets as a tool to inform, and to drive decision-making. Ofte...

Episode 37: Learning about Splunk from 2020-08-06T23:49:53

Episode 37: Learning about Splunk

Guest: Jim Miller

It’s not easy keeping up with technology but one of QueBIT’s Master Consultants, Jim Miller, h...

Episode 36: Analytics Shorts: 3 Stories from 2020-07-30T13:30:33

Episode 36: Analytics Shorts: 3 Stories

Guests: Christine Schoenen, Dan Viterise, Jim Miller

This week we are showcasing three of Listen

Episode 35: Cash Forecasting from 2020-06-04T13:42:23

Guest: Gary Quirke 

What do “cash forecasting” and “looking out for bears” have in common? Both these activities have existential consequences. The damage a bear can cause is obvious...

Episode 34: The Hidden Heroes of Planning, Forecasting & Analysis from 2020-05-28T15:22:43

Guest: AG Tan

Planning, forecasting, reporting and analysis are core business activities served by analytics technology. Many companies are busily re-doing plans and forecasts in response...

Episode 33: Recommendations for Planning in a COVID-19 World from 2020-05-07T20:28:39

Guests: Justin Croft and James Saronson

When there is so much going on around you that you can’t do anything about, it is helpful to reflect on the things you can control. If your job inv...

Episode 32: Embedding AI in FPA Replay from 2020-04-23T13:54:29

Episode 32: Embedding AI in FPA Replay

Guest: AG Tan

This episode is a replay of an in-person keynote presentation delivered at IBM’s offices in New York City in November 2019. The...

Episode 31: Analytics in Uncertain Times: COVID-19 edition from 2020-04-08T16:39:16

Episode 31: Analytics in Uncertain Times: COVID-19 edition

Guest: Gary Quirke

Que...

Episode 30: Analytics for Hospitality & Property Management from 2019-12-05T15:20:59

Episode 30: Analytics for Hospitality & Property Management

Guest: Walter Hugo Añez

Customer experience is a hot topic in every business these days, but in the hospitality indu...

Episode 29: Predictive Forecasting: Under the Covers from 2019-11-07T15:17:41

Episode 29: Predictive Forecasting: Under the Covers

Guest: Scott Mutchler

If you have ever worried that Predictive Forecasting as an application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) an...

Episode 28: The Challenge of Implementing Analytics on a Global Scale from 2019-10-31T18:52:05

Episode 28: The Challenge of Implementing Analytics on a Global Scale

Guest: Dan Viterise

People, especially developers and other technologists like me, tend to view analytics proj...

Episode 27: Analytics in the Health Insurance Industry from 2019-10-25T19:53:03

Episode 27: Analytics in the Health Insurance Industry

Guest: Ryan McKinney

If you heard that profit margins in the health insurance industry can be as low as 3%, would you be surp...

Episode 26: Trusting the AI Forecast in Finance from 2019-10-16T15:48:49

Episode 26: Trusting the AI Forecast in Finance

Guest: Allen Hudson

Many companies are looking for a way to tr...

Episode 25: IBM Cognos Analytics – a New Paradigm for Business Intelligence from 2019-09-26T20:41:24

Episode 25: IBM Cognos Analytics – a New Paradigm for Business Intelligence

Guest: Gus Slaughter

Back in the early 2000s Cognos was the leader in enterprise business intelligence (...

Episode 24: Planning for Change Management from 2019-09-19T20:49:18

Episode 24: Planning for Change Management

Guest: Brian Moore

Regardless of whether you like or dislike change, the best way to manage it is to assume there will be disruption! Whe...

Episode 23: Predictive Price Optimization from 2019-09-12T21:07:02

Episode 23 - Predictive Price Optimization

Guest: James Saronson

How to price your product or service is a fundamental question in any business. If you price too high, you may sell...

Episode 22: A Practical Approach to Innovation in Analytics from 2019-09-05T23:22:32

Episode 22: A Practical Approach to Innovation in Analytics

Guest: Andreas Kugelmeier, IBM

Innovation is much easier to talk about than to do in practice. Challenges include gettin...

Episode 21: Everything you always wanted to know about Testing from 2019-08-29T20:37:15

Episode 21: Everything you always wanted to know about Testing

Guest: Jim Brinnen

When implementing a new analytics system, testing is sometimes treated as a “nice-to-have” rather ...

Episode 20: Data Virtualization from 2019-07-25T17:03:02

Episode 20: Data Virtualization

Guest: Keith Hollen

Data Virtualization technologies can be used in a number of different ways, including real-time operational reporting and analyt...

Episode 19: Lean Demand Forecasting from 2019-07-05T18:17:45

Episode 19: Lean Demand Forecasting

Guest: Dan Barrett

Dan Barrett, QueBIT’s Advanced Analytics Technical Sales Manager, claims that MOST companie...

Episode 18: The Evolution of Business Intelligence from 2019-06-27T20:11:06

Episode 18: The Evolution of Business Intelligence

Guest: Robin Wilkinson

It turns out that Business Intelligence (BI), as a concept, has been around since 1865! Back then it was a...

Episode 17: Analytics for Retail Buyers from 2019-06-21T19:17:35

Episode 17: Analytics for Retail Buyers

Guest: Jim Hanifin

As on-line shopping becomes the norm, the traditional retail industry is going through a lot of adjustments. Employing an...

Episode 16: How to become an Analytics Expert from 2019-06-14T13:54:26

Episode 16: How to become an Analytics Expert

Guests: Daniel Williams, Odile Davis Wolfe, Pete Horgan

QueBIT has grown by cross-training business and finance people in analytics te...

Episode 15: A Financial Consolidation is an Analytics Project! from 2019-05-23T13:14:49

Episode 15: A Financial Consolidation is an Analytics project!

Financial Analytics is an important branch of the field of Analytics. It involves data management, modeling and reporting. A...

Episode 14: Nerding out on FP&A! from 2019-05-16T19:33:32

Episode 14: Nerding out on FP&A!

Guest: Beth Thomas

The Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) function is the original analytics function within any organization. The Pr...

Episode 13: The Evolution of Analytics Solutions from 2019-05-09T23:01:05

Episode 13: The Evolution of Analytics Solutions

Guest: Gary Corrigan

15 years ago, when Gary Corrigan first sold analytics technologies, customers were looking for technology plat...

Episode 12: My Bank FIRED me as their customer! from 2019-05-02T19:58:57

Episode 12: My Bank FIRED me as their customer!

A few years ago, A.G. – who lives in the United States - received a letter from her bank in Denmark telling her that their relationship wou...

Episode 11: Surprise! Analytics isn’t about Changing your Business! from 2019-04-25T17:47:02

Episode 11: Surprise! Analytics Isn’t About Changing Your Business!

Guest: Joel Kehm

Analytics is NOT about changing your business: it’s about running your business better! If your...

Episode 10: Implementing Predictive Demand Planning at a Paper Manufacturer from 2019-04-18T13:18:49

Episode 10: Implementing Predictive Demand Planning at a Paper Manufacturer

Guest: Tim Corrigan

Predictive Demand Planning is the classic application of Advanced Analytics. The ide...

Episode 9: Using APIs to Customize your Analytics Solutions from 2019-04-11T19:55:26

 Episode 9: Using APIs to Customize your Analytics Solutions 

Guest: Mike Cowie

At QueBIT our purpose is to help companies make better d...

Episode 8: Turning the Office of Finance into a Center for Data Analytics from 2019-04-04T17:37:33

Episode 8: Turning the Office of Finance into a Center for Data Analytics

Guest: Cathy Jirak

When Cathy Jirak and Gary Quirke founded QueBIT about 20 years ago, they were really ju...

Episode 7: Biotechnology Financial Modeling Case Study from 2019-03-28T20:11:16

Episode 7: Biotechnology Financial Modeling Case Study 

Guest: Lance Antwine

Lance Antwine, CPA and Implementation Manager at QueBIT, has had...

Episode 6: So you want to use Advanced Analytics to boost ROI? Here’s how. from 2019-03-22T20:52:13

Episode 6: So you want to use Advanced Analytics to boost ROI? Here’s how. 

Guest: Lee Allgood

Before he came to QueBIT, Lee Allgood used to work at a large manufacturing comp...

Episode 5: How to Shop for an Analytics Solution from 2019-03-13T20:26:48

Guest: Leo Cohen 

Leo Cohen began his professional career as a financial analyst in a very large corporation and has intimate first-hand knowledge of financial analytics including fi...

Episode 4: IBM Watson in Real Life from 2019-03-05T17:50:29

Guest: Jim Miller

QueBIT Master Consultant Jim Miller has an unusual hobby: he researches and writes books about technology! Jim has written Listen

Episode 3: A Practical Approach to Predictive Analytics from 2019-02-23T19:58:57

Guest: Dallas Crawford Predictive (and other Advanced) Analytics capabilities are often presented in a way that is daunting to the ordinary business person. Meanwhile the demand for people with dat...

Episode 2: Predictive Analytics for Finance: 101 - Ask QueBIT About Analytics Podcast from 2019-02-08T04:19:54

Guests: Gary Quirke

Long before becoming a founder of QueBIT Consulting, Gary Quirke was a Chartered Accountant and financial analyst. That experience in...

Episode 1: Why Embed Analytics in Everyday Business Processes? - AskQueBIT About Analytics from 2019-02-07T08:04:31

Guests: Gary Quirke (CEO and Co-Founder of QueBIT) & Dallas Crawford (General Manager, Advanced Analytics, QueBIT)  QueBIT has made it its mission to help companies embed analytics – including fina...