Blake Sheldon

An engaged strategic innovator and solution architect who develops others to develop the whole.

[Blake Sheldon @BlakeTSheldon]

@sasforums Don't forget the reason for analytics is to achieve value for your business. Over-rotating on the means to the end is wasteful. Focus on what makes your problem-owners become problem-solvers with the least amount of technology & people in process -- that's just friction #saschat

[Blake Sheldon @BlakeTSheldon]

@sasforums A4: Exchanging an on-prem CapEx cost profile for a cloud OpEx cost profile means "#innovation" has a unit cost. The cost-burden is shifting from IT/Finance/Procurement to Engineers themselves. An engineer must now be concerned about cost-of-code, not just innovation #saschat

[Blake Sheldon @BlakeTSheldon]

@sasforums A3: The best persona to solve problems which generate value in the shortest amount of time... is the person who owns the problem. Every other technology/persona is a cost or delay in value. No/low code enables personas to solve their problems, improving uniteconomics #saschat

[Blake Sheldon @BlakeTSheldon]

@sasforums A1: A2: Both questions into one. The analytics platform must be cost-performant & optimized against the value it provides. When you pay by the minute in the cloud, you need to get the most value for every operating minute. Time-to-value is the goal. Speed is essential #saschat

[Franklin Manchester @FJManchester]

Cloud-native-first: which according to Forrester 40% are doing anyway. Distributed computation. Code “agnostic.” ACTION: “Cloud leaders should accelerate the shift to containers and Kubernetes.” #SASchat #analytics

[Blake Sheldon @BlakeTSheldon]

@sasforums Hello universe -- I am Blake Sheldon, a Senior Manager for Cloud Economics at SAS. I'm also a FinOps member and I spend my time researching & quantify the cost of analytics in the cloud #saschat #analytics

[Blake Sheldon @BlakeTSheldon]

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[Blake Sheldon @BlakeTSheldon]

@SASsoftware Always a pleasure!

[Blake Sheldon @BlakeTSheldon]

@MFaccenda @angieblum @bid_company Milo, I think you're on to something. A recent customer's engagement survey's least favorable question was around being compensated fairly. When we conducted segmentation analysis, that question, even though "low", was not a significant driver of any of the 5 segments!

[Blake Sheldon @BlakeTSheldon]

@leosadovy Couldn't agree more. Would love to grab lunch and talk more!

[Blake Sheldon @BlakeTSheldon]

A5: Looking forward to discussing this topic next week. Text analytics plays a huge role in creating data for jobs & employees alike. Then integrate this data with your forecasts to identify which people address gaps and which need skilling up #peopleanalytics #saschat

[Blake Sheldon @BlakeTSheldon]

A3: The impending skills gap will require organizations to think differently about the talent they already have. Addressing increased talent competition by creating fulfilling careers internally - to do more with what you have - will be paramount #saschat

[Blake Sheldon @BlakeTSheldon]

A2: This is a passion topic of mine. We're doing some great work internally here at SAS that uses segmentation analysis on engagement survey results, then predicts the drivers of each segment. This provides the evidence management needs to buy in #peopleanalytics #saschat

[Blake Sheldon @BlakeTSheldon]

@TCalvio Totally agree! Love the quote... what gets measured gets done :)

[Blake Sheldon @BlakeTSheldon]

A1: So many options with analytics. I think the first challenge is HR being able to access the data they need to make smarter decisions. Korn Ferry's CEO said last week that it will be more about candidate "fit" than anything else. Analytics can help determine "fit" #saschat

[Blake Sheldon @BlakeTSheldon]

Hello Twitterverse and fellow colleagues in #peopleanalytics. I am former HR consultant who moved into SAS' HR department before marrying SAS' analytics to solve HR's challenges with our customers. Look forward to talking today! #saschat

[Blake Sheldon @BlakeTSheldon]

Pay it forward #GiveGood

[Blake Sheldon @BlakeTSheldon]

Great to see Soumi Alphons in SAS India speaking at the HR futures conference! https://t.co/xA93uIp5Pe

[HR Futures @HR_Futures]

Delighted To Announce Our Pune Speaker - @SoumiAlphons, Head - Human Resources, @SASsoftware
Register Now - https://t.co/otwCJkFqSp #HR

[Blake Sheldon @BlakeTSheldon]

@henardmba I know you're into negative feedback stories. Here is one for Dominoes that was great: https://t.co/5ZnUTAhfT7

[Blake Sheldon @BlakeTSheldon]

@NCSU_SHRM When I search "SHRM" on Google, NC State's SHRM program is the second link. That's a feat in itself. Keep up the good work!