Analytics and AI are booming in organizations, but many companies are not yet getting strategic value from their projects and investments. Many projects are not deployed into production. Analytics and AI initiatives may not be targeted at important business problems…

When it comes to scaling analytics at a large organization, a lot of focus has been placed historically on successfully creating clean, consistent data that feeds well-defined, consistent analytical processes. This focus was necessary and valuable. However, as data governance…

Vendors of software and software-based online services have long employed a product focus with their offerings. They seek to discover what customers want in the products before they build them. They have product managers to oversee the process of product…

Members of the Analytics Leadership Consortium (ALC) come together every quarter to share and discuss some of their most pressing topics in analytics. Our highlighted topics from discussions this spring include Remote Work, Job Family Modernization, Managing Complexity, Scaling, and…

Each year, the International Institute for Analytics ends the year with a look at the latest analytics trends and the most pressing analytics challenges currently facing organizations. Each year’s predictions are based upon our day-to-day work supporting and advising a…

Understanding How Oil & Gas Companies Can Leverage Data as One of Its Most Valuable Commodities. The Oil & Gas Industry (O&G) is fundamentally based on the ability to explore, locate, and extract valuable assets from the ground. In the…

We hear all the time about business sponsors who don’t seem to get analytics and who are difficult to work with. There are some great business sponsors out there too, though they don’t get as much written about them. Sometimes,…