Recap The 2010 Deloitte Analytics Symposium

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The 2010 Symposium presented an opportunity for executives, Deloitte professionals and leading academics to examine ways to create value with business analytics. Attendees heard real-world examples of how companies are using analytics to their advantage and explored current analytic trends and investments that can help maximize value and drive integrated decision-making.

Participants advanced, refined and began their analytics journey with direct access to some of the nation's leading thinkers in the field of analytics, as well as peers in other leading companies who have already realized returns on their investments.

Agenda highlights included:

Day one: October 7

Keynote presentation by Tom Davenport discussing how leading firms are basing their competitive strategies on the sophisticated analysis of business data.
Session covering the future of advanced analytics and if this is just another passing fad -- or a new capability that's going to become essential for any company interested in making smarter decisions.
Workshop on using analytics to stay ahead of the competition by capturing the predictive power of the crowd, including audience involvement to demonstrate the simplicity and power of “the wisdom of crowds,” and on consuming and interacting with analytics through data visualization.
Presentation on the financial impact of analytics -- how it can both help and hinder an organization depending on how the data is implemented.
Dinner and on-site social event

Day two: October 8

Keynote presentation on the future of analytics and academia by Dr. Frank Acito, Dr. Hugh Watson, and Dr. Barbara Wixom from Indiana University and the University of Georgia.
Session on using workforce analytics to help make more effective business-driven Human Resources decisions, including anticipating business issues to better manage the talent supply chain accordingly and on how to start your analytics journey with the right technology, data and people.
Panel discussion about the impact of forensic analytics on business organization and turning the array of data into meaningful information.