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Zoetermeer, Netherlands: Today, ORTEC and many other organizations raise the flag to create awareness for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations. Exactly five years ago the world embraced these 17 goals that guide us to a more inclusive, fair, and sustainable society by 2030.
September 2020
Many businesses aspire to become data-driven organizations. They embark on a digital transformation or start making use of data analysis, artificial intelligence, or machine learning. But not all organizations are equally successful in their attempts to use data to generate business value. After all, state-of-the-art technology and data alone do not guarantee successful digitization. Businesses must also pay attention to their customers’ needs, the education and training of employees and cultural change, all coming together in a holistic digital strategy that is crucial for a well-functioning data-driven organization.
This is the fifth and final article in the series on Five Ways of Translating Data into Better Decision-Making. In this article, we will summarize the first four articles and show how they can be combined into a single, integrated approach.
The coronavirus outbreak has reduced the number of flights worldwide. It is without doubt the airline industry enters a new reality: dealing with uncertainty.
While many things remain outside direct control, maximizing agility helps airlines to deal with uncertainty and anticipate future scenarios. Agility is about making better and informed decisions that enable airlines to respond quickly to changes.
In this Downloadable Insight our experts have identified the steps to take to achieve the required level of agility by increasing the analytical maturity level and organizational alignment.
This month, ORTEC organized the 2nd Global Retail Summit. This second edition of the event was held online and was very well-received by our customers: 90 people from 43 companies in 21 countries participated. Read on to discover the highlights and key planning insights we got from the event.
August 2020
Technology is almost always supportive of character, says ORTEC’s Chief Technology & Innovation Officer Patrick Hennen. “At most, you can use highly innovative technology as a driver, but even then you shouldn’t be using it at all costs. The technology has to create value for the business; business should be able to do something with that technology that was not possible before. Ultimately, technology is an enabler, not an end in itself.”
This is the fourth article in the series on Five Ways of Translating Data into Better Decision-Making. In this article, Patrick Hennen, Chief Technology and Innovation Officer at ORTEC, discusses the role of technology in data-driven decision making.
Zoetermeer, Netherlands ORTEC announces to have recently joined the Dutch AI Coalition (NL AIC). This coalition of Dutch commercial, non-profit and governmental organizations commits to accelerating Artificial Intelligence (AI) initiatives to position The Netherlands as the frontrunner in the development and application of AI for economic and social value. One of these initiatives is U-Prevent, an interactive mathematical model that indicates for each individual patient the effect of medicines on cardiovascular diseases. U-Prevent is an initiative by ORTEC, UMC Utrecht, Erasmus MC, LUMC, Amsterdam UMC, Amphia Ziekenhuis Breda, Harvard Medical School, and the association of cardiologists.
Zoetermeer, Netherlands Today, ORTEC announced that Marianne Tijssen is appointed as Non-Executive Board Member, effective July 1, 2020.
Marianne Tijssen will take over the position of Lineke Sneller, whose term is ending as per July 1, 2020. Tijssen has worked at ABN AMRO for over 24 years and is co-founder of FiveDegrees. Since 2014, she supports multiple organizations by being part of their supervisory boards. Among them the board of Univé, a cooperative insurance company.
Over the past century, business have made huge improvements when it comes to optimal and cost-efficient planning, as well the organization of processes. However, efficient processes alone won’t solve the challenges of the current world. Demands and needs are changing; as a result, the traditional performance indicators are currently out-competed by other ones, such as customer satisfaction, employee engagement, and impact on the SDGs. The puzzle is becoming a more difficult one to solve. Businesses will need to adopt new ways to thrive, and maybe even to survive. Data and mathematics can help to solve the puzzle, but that means data and AI need a place in the boardroom.
November 7, 2022
By solving 10 out of 12 algorithmic problems, ORTEC wins first place in the company pool of the Benelux Algorithm Programming Contest (BAPC) this year. In this contest, the brightest computer science minds take the challenge to solve complex algorithmic problems. Over fifty teams from leading universities and different companies participated in this year’s contest in the student- or company pool.
Rianne Langenberg, Business Strategist at ORTEC, argues that algorithms should be treated somewhat like human employees by having the organization and management monitor whether they’re doing their job properly. She outlines five factors that, when done properly, will make it possible to manage algorithms. At the same time, she’s fully aware that life has to be made as easy as possible for human employees: “Algorithms are often new for senior management. We want to make them more accessible by giving them a familiar face. Our approach is anything but new: it’s a rejigged version of a system that most companies are thoroughly familiar with.”