IIBA Seattle Chapter Meeting: Future of Work for Business Analysis with Analytics & Smart Machines

by | Feb 25, 2020 | News & Events

On Tuesday January 28, 2020, our Director of the UW Tacoma Milgard Center for Business Analytics, Haluk Demirkan, Ph.D., PMP, gave a presentation at the January IIBA (International Institute of Business Analysis) Seattle Chapter Meeting in downtown Seattle.  The title of his talk was Future of Work for Business Analysis with Analytics & Smart Machines.

Abstract:

There is no doubt that computers are increasingly capable of doing things that humans could once do exclusively. Smart machines are gaining human capabilities, such as recognizing voices, processing natural language, and interacting and learning with the physical world through vision, smell, touch, mobility and motor control. In some cases, these machines do a much faster and better job than people at recognizing patterns, performing rule-based analysis from very large amounts of data, and solving structured and unstructured problems. Moreover, of course, data & analytics are on the core of this smart-machine enabled digital transformation. It is obvious that the role of a business analyst in 2020 will become increasingly digital-focused. According to IBM, the number of job profiles for all US business analysts who are analytics & digital-savvy is set to increase from 364,000 openings to 2,720,000 in next few years. We will discuss about how to become next generation business analysts who collaborate with smart machines to co-create value.

Haluk’s presentation was very well received by the attendees leading to a lively discussion thereafter.  We thank IIBA for inviting Haluk to present at their Seattle Chapter meeting in January.

If you are interested in learning more about educational and research opportunities in Business Analytics at UW Tacoma, please contact Michael Helser, Ph.D. (Manager of Operations & Programs in the Milgard Center for Business Analytics) at mcba@uw.edu.

About Haluk Demirkan, Ph.D., PMP
Milgard Endowed Professor of Service Innovation & Business Analytics at UW-Tacoma
Founder & Director of Center for Business Analytics, and Master of Science in Business Analytics

Dr. Haluk Demirkan is an innovation and analytics evangelist, maestro, data gig, recognized leader, experienced practitioner (20+ years), awarded consultant, accomplished scholar (~ 15 years), active applied researcher, cross-disciplinary teacher, effective mentor, invited speaker, productive author (150+ pubs) and professional student. His achievements brought him a global leadership and reputation in co-creation of value and service innovation with out-tasking, complex data, analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, intelligence augmentation and service-oriented technology & management.  He has more than 20 years professional experience advising more than 40 Fortune 500 companies like IBM, GE, Cisco, HP, Intel, American Express and others in maximizing the return on companies’ resources by effectively implementing strategic data, analytics, cognitive and service transformation solutions. In 2014, he was ranked 5  in Top-100 World-wide Researchers (the Association for Information Systems sanctioned rankings). He also received four IBM Faculty Research Awards as a result of his analytics and cognitive business models research.

 

Blog Post Contributed by: Michael Helser, Ph.D. – February 25, 2020