For over a decade IIA has set the standard for assessing and progressing the maturity of enterprise analytics. Flash back to the founding of IIA and this meant creating awareness around the power of data…

With the proliferation and sophistication of self-service tools, it is likely your organization uses visually stunning dashboards to track and consume data on a variety of business functions. But to realize the full value of…

Formally and intentionally organizing your analytics teams is an integral part of any organization's analytics journey. Additionally, planning out how your company should eventually re-organize its analytics teams is also foundational to growing its capabilities and analytics maturity. Experts at IIA have put together this…

There is one primary reason why organizations need to adopt a product focus for analytics and AI: models simply don’t get implemented often enough. Data scientists often focus on model development, but the deployment process is much broader. There are multiple studies indicating that model…

From Europe’s GDPR to California’s CCPA, governments have cracked down on privacy in a big way – and this regulation will only escalate as AI becomes more entrenched across industries. Recently proposed and passed laws…

Several years ago, while focusing on the cohort of clients whose scores on IIA’s industry-standard Analytics Maturity Assessment (AMA) were below the assessment’s midpoint of 3.0, and specifically on those companies whose scores did not improve significantly, year-over-year, we discovered a series of blockers that…

According to NewVantage Partners 2023 survey on data and analytics leadership, there still exists a lack of clear expectations for the CDAO role or equivalent as organizations “struggle to deliver business value from their data…

Data and analytics continue to be integral to the success of today's businesses. As we look ahead to 2023, it's important to consider what your data and analytics teams should prioritize. This research brief authored by experts Tom Davenport, Bill Franks, and Brian Sampsel outlines…

What are the common hurdles encountered when putting analytics to work in a business, both in developing analytical models and applications and in building enterprise analytical capability? This question is central to IIA’s mission of helping organizations navigate the many challenges to achieving analytics maturity,…