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Karen O\u2019Brien is the Operations and Analytics Division Chief in the Army Materiel Command\u2019s Analytics Group. With a 20-year analytics career ranging from ballistics to logistics, Ms. O\u2019Brien supports Army leaders at the highest levels with innovative analyses that save taxpayer money today and preserve tomorrow\u2019s decision space. She is at her best untangling complex systems, working with sparse data and no precedent. Ms. O\u2019Brien was a physics and chemistry nerd as an undergrad and holds a MS in Predictive Analytics from Northwestern University.<\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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Analytics in Defense Logistics: Decision-centric Analytics in a Data-centric World<\/h2>\n

As the analytics marketplace fills with easy-to-implement data-centric technology solutions, a critical niche is increasingly underserved: decision-centric analytics. Decision-centric analytics is nevertheless the mainstay of senior leaders and their staffs. In developing an advanced analytics capability in support of Army decision-makers at the 4-star level, the Army Material Command has navigated this paradigm gap. The key to success has been using the conceptual analytics framework provided by Keenan, Owen, and Schumacher in 2019 to provide a common vocabulary and meeting ground for these two very different approaches to analytics. Examples will be provided to illustrate the success that can be achieved when data-centric and decision-centric experts meet in the middle.<\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Karen O’Brien Karen O’Brien Division Chief at U.S. Army Material Command Analysis Group Karen O\u2019Brien is the Operations and Analytics Division Chief in the Army Materiel Command\u2019s Analytics Group. 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