Business Analytics Articles

Can Private Business Help Fix the VA?

Can Private Business Help Fix the VA?

Can new technologies help ease the bureaucratic logjam at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs while preventing future scandals such as those uncovered by the recent internal VA audits? Perhaps, say some analysts and business professionals who've been following the...

Big Data Isn’t Just For The Enterprise These Days

Big Data Isn’t Just For The Enterprise These Days

Around this time of year, the concentration of hoopla around Big Data, data warehousing and business intelligence is so thick you could probably make a chart about it. (I’m sure someone already has.) A lot of that is due to the Big Data love-fest known as O’Reilly...

Don’t Fall Victim to These Email Scams

Don’t Fall Victim to These Email Scams

Many of us love shopping on the Web and keeping in touch via email, but a digital life comes with a downside: Americans reported losing an incredible $525 million to online cons in 2012, with the average loss a whopping $4,573, says the federal government's Internet...

Small Business, Big Data, Entrepreneurs and Tech Will Reign in 2014

Small Business, Big Data, Entrepreneurs and Tech Will Reign in 2014

As 2013 draws to a close and pundits of all persuasions debate trends for 2014, five professors with the Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver say small business, big data, entrepreneurship and tech will boom in 2014. Spurred by growth in these four...

The University of Denver’s Shark Tank Experience

Dr. Stephen Haag is a Professor-in-Residence in the Department of Business Information & Analytics in the University of Denver’s Daniels College of Business. Formerly, he served as Chair of the Department of Information Technology and Electronic Commerce, Director...

Should the US have a national biometric ID card?

Should the US have a national biometric ID card?

Stephen Haag, Associate Professor-in-Residence, Department of Business Information and Analytics, speaks to MSN Money regarding a proposed national biometric ID card. As Congress grapples with new efforts at immigration reform and the best way to deal with...

How to Deposit Checks With Your Smartphone

As money increasingly goes digital, with online-only banks and apps that allow money transfers by tapping phones, customers have a new way of handling paper checks. Instead of using an ATM or a bank teller to deposit a check, customers of a growing number of...