Operational Research Society News

Bespoke data management at ‘the Airbnb of camper vans’

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21 Oct 2021

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MyCamper earned the nickname ‘the Airbnb of camper vans’ by helping private owners rent out their vehicles to holidaymakers. However, the small team initially lacked the skills to manually build the necessary data-crunching tools.

21 Oct 2021

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Benefits of data analysis not felt in companies’ marketing functions

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21 Sep 2021

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A report, entitled Navigating Blind Spots: The State of Digital Marketing, reveals that 73 percent of 200 companies studied were caught off guard by new customer trends, despite having access to significant amounts of data on customer behaviour, purchase processes and preferences.

21 Sep 2021

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Optimising for Empathy

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07 Mar 2020

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It is easy to appreciate that AI systems improve business workflows but what about ones that enable better human-to-human interaction? This is where AI-enabled CRMs come in.

07 Mar 2020

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Invisible Women

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28 Nov 2019

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Caroline Criado Perez has won the prestigious Royal Society Science Books Prize with her book, 'Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men',

28 Nov 2019

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Using soft skills and OR tools to solve "data analytics' big problem"

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11 Nov 2019

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OMV Petrom, a Romanian oil company, is using soft power to get employees to use its new data analytics tools.

11 Nov 2019

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