Managing data mining advice from experts /

In response to increasingly high customer demands and formidable competition, today's organizations have implemented new technologies that generate and collect massive volumes of data. However, a large majority of the data collected goes to waste or becomes obsolete. Inconsistency, repetition,...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: IGI Global.
Other Authors: Kudyba, Stephan, 1963-
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2004.
Series:IT solutions series.
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Online Access:View fulltext via EzAccess
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: data mining and the world of commerce: a background of data mining, business intelligence and business process management / Stephan Kudyba
  • 2. Data mining and the banking sector: managing risk in lending and credit card activities / Àkos Felsóvályi, Jennifer Courant
  • 3. Credit scoring and risk management for small business lending / Vernon Gerety
  • 4. The utilization of business intelligence and data mining in the insurance marketplace / Jeffrey Hoffman
  • 5. Sales force management in the consumer products industry / Navin Sharma
  • 6. The healthcare cost dilemma: what health insurance companies can do to mitigate unsustainable premium increases / Russ Danstrom, Jeff Nicola
  • 7. The application of data mining techniques in health plan population management: a disease management approach / Theodore L. Perry ... et al.
  • 8. Toiling in the media data mines / Robert Young
  • 9. Audience measurement applications for online advertising and e-commerce / David Martin
  • 10. Taking a close look at the evolving utilities industry: factors that drive volatility and methods to help manage it / Nicholas Galletti
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  • Index.