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Monitoring surgical quality

By Guest PostMay 10, 2014Healthanoxic basin, australia, biopsy, bodysnatchers, canada, deep hypersaline, dhab, ginny edgcomb, hong kong, pec 215, statistician, united kingdom, virginia tech

Distinguished statistician discusses probability and statistics in health care

William H. Woodall, a distinguished professor and statistician at Virginia Tech, spoke to a large audience on “Monitoring and Improving Surgical Quality” at the fourth annual W.L. Gore Lecture Series in Management Science last week on the University of Delaware’s Laird Campus.

The series, hosted by the Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics and sponsored by an endowment from the Gore family, annually recognizes the role that probability, statistics and experimental design have played in the success of W.L. Gore and Associates Inc. (more…)

IBM Study: CIOs Have a New Boss – Customers

By Guest PostMarch 13, 2014Technologybusiness strategy, business value, cio, critical trends, customers, data scientists, ibm study, ibv, macro economic changes, market factors, new boss, peter korsten, statistician, value

Study of more than 1,600 CIOs adds customer satisfaction to the tech executives’ performance review

ARMONK, N.Y. – 13 Mar 2014: With consumers engaging more directly with businesses through mobile and social media, more than 60 percent of CIOs will focus more heavily on improving the customer experience and getting closer to customers, according to a new report released by IBM.

The report, entitled “Moving from the Back Office to the Front Lines – CIO Insights from the Global C-suite Study” is based on face-to-face conversations with more than 1,600 CIOs from 70 countries and 20 industries worldwide. The research, conducted by IBM’s Institute for Business Value, reveals that customers drive CIOs to turn their focus to the front lines. (more…)

Climate Change is not an All-or-Nothing Proposition, Researcher Says

By Guest PostFebruary 25, 2013Environmentamericans, climate, climate change, climate model, climate research, data accumulates, earth, extreme disasters, high tides, human difficulty, human nature, mark berliner, mitigation strategies, model, negative impacts, ohio state university, periodic floods, statistician

BOSTON — An Ohio State University statistician says that the natural human difficulty with grasping probabilities is preventing Americans from dealing with climate change.

In a panel discussion at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting on Feb. 15, Mark Berliner said that an aversion to statistical thinking and probability is a significant reason that we haven’t enacted strategies to deal with climate change right now. (more…)

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Monitoring surgical quality

IBM Study: CIOs Have a New Boss – Customers

Climate Change is not an All-or-Nothing Proposition, Researcher Says