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  • Services Overview

    Offerings designed to help companies make the transition to data-driven decision making, advanced analytics and AI

  • Expertise Overview

    IIA help clients build capabilities across seven areas critical to building a successful and effective enterprise analytics capability

    • Organization

      Organization models, talent, analytics skills, roles & responsibilities, funding models, etc.

    • Culture

      Analytics maturity, information economies, leadership, decision-making skills, ethics, etc.

    • Process, Methods & Practices

      Analytics techniques, artificial intelligence, business intelligence, agile, visualization, storytelling, UX design, etc.

    • Plans & Programs

      Developing an analytics strategy, building an analytics program, measurement, communication, etc.

    • Demand Management

      Business alignment, operationalization, requirements definition, prioritization, ROI, metrics, etc.

    • Data

      Data strategy, data management, data governance, access, privacy, data engineering, etc.

    • Tools & Technology

      Analytics platform strategy, analytics application lifecycle, Cloud, Dev Ops, tool selection, etc.

  • Resources Overview

    Example insights, frameworks and best practices derived from IIA’s experience working directly with clients

  • Community Overview

    Content designed to share trends, challenges, insights and best practices from our work with clients in the broader analytics community

    • Blog

      Timely, relevant perspectives from IIA leaders and experts based on our experience with clients and unique market perspective

    • Podcast

      Informative and engaging discussions with successful analytics executives from leading companies

    • Events

      Virtual and in person Symposiums with practitioner-driven agendas, collaboration and peer-to-peer networking

    • Roundtables & Webinars

      Regularly scheduled, in depth presentations on topics that matter from IIA executives, experts and thought leaders

  • Company Overview

    Over a decade of experience delivering unbiased research, advisory and assessment services designed to accelerate analytics performance

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Creating An Analytics Community Of Practice

A Community of Practice (CoP) enables individuals to come together to work towards a common goal. Why should you consider starting a CoP in your organization?

  • To improve analytics activities within an organization by tapping into the energy and passion of individuals around topics, ideas, skills development, and knowledge sharing

  • To increase opportunities for employees to collaborate, especially across roles and functions

  • To share and communicate challenges, successes, new approaches for problem-solving, and discover innovative ideas and solutions

  • To identify unknown pockets of analytics use and expertise

  • To align activities to a corporate pillar or goal, creating additional attention and effort to a key priority

Besides establishing why you should consider a CoP, this free IIA eBook provides actionable insights on how to start a CoP within you organization, including:

  • Securing approval and support from business leaders

  • Suggestions for marketing your CoP internally to maximize interest and momentum

  • Defining the CoP mission to identify the focus, purpose, value and audience

  • Designing the CoP’s objectives and activities

  • Supporting CoP engagement opportunities to benefit the entire enterprise.

Full clients of IIA also have access to a comprehensive research brief with specific examples of CoP activities and suggestions on how to test and implement different CoP initiatives within your organization. Clients also have direct access to the experts, thought leaders and practitioners that developed this research.

For more, read the blog post “Creating an Analytics Community of Practice”by the author of this eBook and research brief.