Tim Hortons, Justin Bieber, and The Flames: How Analytics is Fueling Calgary




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Summary: What does Tim Hortons (https://www.timhortons.com/us/en/index.php), Justin Bieber (http://www.justinbiebermusic.com/)and the Calgary Flames (https://www.nhl.com/flames) have in common? Brett Roberts (https://twitter.com/broberts2261) and Erin K. Banks (https://twitter.com/banksek) explored just this with Deniece Kennedy (https://www.linkedin.com/in/deniece-kennedy-51508148/), Senior Director of Business Intelligence and Special Projects and Ziad Mehio (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ziad-mehio-b4523b27/), Senior Director of IT and Food and Beverage from an operations side from the Calgary Sports and Entertainment. We talk about their business problems and how they are able to solve them with data analytics. One of them being the drop count and getting people to come back to the building. Listen to some of the surprises they encountered through data analytics as well as some items that they already knew and data analytics was able to confirm. They discuss their internal business as well as their partnerships that have helped them drive even more business. Show Notes: http://bit.ly/BDB_EP26 (http://bit.ly/BDB_EP26) Music from this episode is by Andrew Belle (https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/andrew-belle/291731793).