The First Analytics Team in Action
We seek big opportunities and take a wide-angle view of what’s possible through advanced analytics. Our success has been based on our ability to be nimble, to respond and react quickly to our clients’ needs, flexibly tailoring and channeling our skill sets to their projects. No guesswork; not intuition; just a deep belief and reliance in the power of analytics.
We drive insight, intelligence and change. And we’re ready to do it for you.
- All
- Analytics Platform Modernization
- Analytics Enablement
- Analytics Strategy
- Animal Health and Protein Production
- CPG and Consumer Products
- Design of Experiments
- Forecasting
- Healthcare
- Human Resources
- Industrial Engineering
- Intelligent Process Automation
- IoT Analytics
- Legal
- Machine Learning
- Machine Vision
- Manufacturing
- Marketing and Promotion
- Optimization
- Predictive Maintenance
- Pricing
- Product Quality
- Public Relations and Social Media
- Quick Serve Restaurants
- Retail
- Safety
- Sales and Demand Planning
- Sustainability
- Text Mining
- Transportation
Keep Safety Rates on the Right Track.
The nation’s largest railroad came to us with a challenge. After seeing initial declines in their reportable employee injury and safety incident rates, stagnation set in. The railroad had...
Optimizing Tight Spaces
A global pharmaceutical company came to us with a unique space optimization challenge. The company had developed and launched a new product line of pre-filled syringes, promising to improve safety and control...
Machine Learning Supporting Demand Planners
A leading consumer packed goods company relied on statistical models to forecast demand of their product. While baseline statistical forecasts were generally...
Improving Service Parts Forecasting
An automotive company’s legacy parts forecasting system suffered from age, scalability issues, and expensive licensing fees to the vendor. During a short planning cycle at the end of each month...
Augmenting Statistical Forecasting with Machine Learning
This company has a very capable data science team which looks for ways to bring machine learning into business processes...
Identifying the Drivers of Employee Attrition
For its key operations, the company relies on workers who require extensive training which takes the course...
Reducing Manufacturing Scrap Through Root Cause Analysis
A discrete manufacturer produces a technology product which has narrow measurement tolerances...
Predicting and Understanding Adverse Rail Network Events
Railroads can be severely impacted by interruptions to the flow of trains on thier network...
Optimizing Gasoline Prices
An operator of about 1700 gas stations needed to set fuel sales volume and profit targets at the corporate level...
Machine Vision for Detecting Equipment Problems
This company operates equipment in motion at high speed. Certain components develop defects or damage that could cause...
Uncovering Product Quality Issues using Machine Data
A food company experienced manufacturing issues with one particular product, where the product was...
Predictive Maintenance for Trucks
A mining company relies on high-payload-capacity trucks to haul extracted material for extraction of ore and...
Improving Fuel Conservation
A transportation company spends over a billion dollars a year on fuel. Even a 1% savings in fuel consumption...
Protecting the Public at Rail/Highway Crossings
Vehicle-train collisions at railroad crossings is a significant problem in North America...
Machine Learning for Data Quality
The client augments their own sales data with multiple third party sources to get a comprehensive view...
Automatic Order Writing
A consumer goods company redesigned a portion of their supply network. For certain sales outlets, a distinct distribution...
Uncovering Adverse Safety Trends
Two companies were looking to identify developing trends in safety incidents with their employees...
Menu Price Optimization for a Quick-Serve Restaurant
An operator of a national chain of fast food restaurants desired to improve profits through price...
Promotional Risk Feedback for Sales Account Managers
The client relies heavily on promotions for many of their products, and future planned...
Developing a “Big Data” Analytics Strategy
A consumer goods company wanted to determine the opportunities and challenges...
Improving Case Fill Rates
A consumer goods company struggled, in some of their categories, to maintain desired case fill rates to customers....
Forecasting and Planning for an Online Retailer
A popular online retailer needed to understand and project demand for nearly 30 million SKUs over multiple websites. We implemented a...
Predictive Maintenance for Medical Instruments
A medical device company has maintenance contracts for thousands of their instruments...
Improving Financial Forecast Accuracy with Less Effort
A retailer’s quarterly financial forecasting process would take 28 people, 160 hours to...
A Recommender System for Field Service Technicians
The company operates an organization of field service technicians who make repair and...
Making a Railroad’s Employees Safer – An Open Source Case
After seeing the success of our project at another railroad, this company asked us to do...
Measuring the Effectiveness of a Novel Treatment for Opioid Addiction
An employer of tens of thousands of employees maintains a hotline for employees to anonymously...
Understanding Litigation Trends using an Employee Reporting System
An employer of tens of thousands of employees maintains a hotline for employees to anonymously...
Understanding and Improving Worker Productivity
A company in recent years had experienced a wide variation in productivity and were alarmed about...
Strategy for Applying Analytics to a Demand Signal Repository
A consumer packaged goods company had invested heavily in building a so-called demand signal...
Using Social Media for Business Decisions
This case is an amalgamation of several projects we have undertaking to incorporate social media...
Incorporating New Media into Marketing Mix Models
A company which for years had relied on marketing mix models to attribute sales volume to marketing..
Alerting to Potential Lost Sales
A business-to-business company with many high volume, high-quantity orders from customers..
Forecasting Maintenance Requirements
A transportation service company provides maintenance services to very large fleets. They needed...
Pricing Segmentation Using a Demand Signal Repository
A consumer goods company spent several years and millions of dollars building a demand signal...
Deploying Multi-tier Causal Forecasting Systems
Four consumer product companies we have worked with have recognized the value of linking...
Multiple CPG Demand Forecasting Implementations
Several of our CPG clients have similar challenges with demand forecasting. How to produce accurate...
Better Quantifying of Promotional ROI
The sales executives of this consumer packaged goods company relies on sales and promotion data...
Empowering Decision-making on Livestock Health
Ethiopia's substantial livestock sector, contributing almost 20% to its GDP, is a crucial element of its economy...
Projecting Beef Cattle Endpoint Performance
An international animal health company wanted to build an improved decision tool for beef producers looking...
Food Safety in Meat Processing Plants
A company that provides products and services to the animal health industry was looking to help meat...
Better Control Groups for In-market Tests
A retailer was conducting an in-market test of a store format change...
Commodity Prices, Producer Profitability and Spending
A producer of animal feed medications and vaccinations wanted to understand how livestock....
Commodity Prices and Customer Demand
A railroad transports crude oil from refineries to many oil customers. They need to understand demand...
Building In-house Price and Promotion Modeling Capabilities
This retailer was dependent on large enterprise software to manage pricing...
Quantifying the Effect of Public Relations on Corporate Earnings
A public relations services and measurement company desired to show how their data...
Knowledge Transfer to Build Automated Daily Order Forecasts
A growing company that provides daily grocery delivery services through online...
Text Mining to Understand Accidents
A transportation company maintains a database of accidents. Along with data about each incident, textual narratives...
Predicting Legal Claims Costs
The senior general counsel of a company with tens of thousands of employees who sometimes work in hazardous conditions...
Architecting a Big Data Analytics Platform
A utility desired to establish an “integrated customer data and analytics” platform...
Advising on Product Strategy for IoT
A semiconductor manufacturer began to foresee opportunities in the exploding potential applications of the so-called internet-of-things...
Public Affairs Crisis Management
A global consumer products company wanted to understand the impact of public relations events such as...
Finding IT System Bottlenecks and Predicting Performance
The company processes large amounts of documents and other data. The processed...
Recommending Discount Levels for B2B Customers
A large animal health company wanted to create more rational discount structures for their B2B customers...
Focusing on Human Factor Derailments
A Class I railroad began focusing on reducing human factor derailments. Though incidents reported..
Predicting Profit Erosion in Commercial Construction
A large national construction company was experiencing a loss of tens of millions of dollars of profit...
Facility Cost Benchmarking
A large global manufacturer desired to implement a cost benchmarking system to understand...
Analytics Strategy to Adapt to an Evolving Market
This client provides analytical services to national direct marketing companies. The services include...
Analytics Platform Modernization
This client had a very capable data science team but productivity was hampered by each analyst having a desktop workstation versus a unified consistent...
Forecasting Application Hosting
The client licensed new software for forecasting and wanted to realize the gains immediately. But between constraints with the company’s IT department...
Forecasting Audit
A manufacturer had invested in forecasting software and staff time with the expectation of realizing substantial...
Teaching Analytics for Predictive Maintenance
The company needed to predict when, over the next three months, certain components would trigger...
Is the Safety Triangle Valid?
A client for whom we had implemented a predictive safety analytics dashboard came to us with an interesting research proposition...
Enabling Your Data Science Team
Several of our clients have sizable, capable data science teams. But with the rise...
Pandemic Response
In the earliest days of the COVID-19 pandemic our clients and other companies needed...
Weather Data in Analytics
Weather plays a factor in many of the subjects our case studies. Although the weather is often...