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…

Based on insight from our research and assessments, IIA has identified five areas that are critical to crack if you want to leverage analytics for business advantage and move to a more advanced stage of analytics maturity. We have consolidated them in a whitepaper we…

By David Alles Excerpt: Organizations today face an increasingly challenging business environment. Across industries, new companies and nimble competitors are taking advantage of analytics and leveraging the full potential of the internet, disrupting traditional business models and markets. Cloud computing and open source have caused…

Increasingly sophisticated and complex analytics technologies, the movement to cloud and open source technologies, and digital native market disruption are making improvements in analytics maturity increasingly difficult. Based on the 5 Stages of Analytics Maturity from Competing on Analytics, most traditional companies are still in…

As enterprises of all shapes and sizes commit to harnessing the power of data and analytics to transform all aspects of their businesses, the DELTA Plus Model and Five Stages of Analytics Maturity have become the industry standard for assessing analytics maturity and setting a…

The era of impact with analytics has arrived, and the business world is taking notice. Google, Facebook, Amazon and Netflix have all built hugely successful businesses around algorithms feeding on Big Data. The emergence of these “digital native” companies has led to dramatic upheaval in…

Does the development of enterprise analytics capabilities really drive superior company performance? As IIA works with clients from around the world, we are often asked this question. Of course, we strongly believe that it does. This very premise is at the center of our founding…