Operating Models Are Like Diets Everyone eats and so everyone has a diet. Some people, however, are more intentional in their diet, which can lead to better long-term outcomes and…

In non-data-driven businesses, data may play a role in decision-making, but it doesn’t drive decisions. In contrast, data-driven businesses let data guide decisions, outcomes and strategies, even when the data…

Data governance has often been looked upon as a burdensome but necessary hedge against legal or compliance issues, which we refer to as Data Governance 1.0 (DG1.0). In contrast, Data…

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…

Self-service is best characterized as a broader business effort to continue the maturation of your enterprise analytics by identifying more and better business challenges against which to apply advanced analytics…

Analytics resources are scarce and the demands on those resources are ever increasing, so it’s critical to have a clear, transparent, and intentional method to source and execute the analytics…

A Comprehensive Data Strategy is Not Optional The growth in the demand for better decision-making with data means that a comprehensive data strategy is no longer a nice to have.…

An analytical application combines data and computationally-intensive logic to produce a mechanism for predicting future states, or prescribing actions in the present, that are demonstrably valuable to a business beneficiary.…

Companies that think strategically about analytics achieve the biggest impact from analytics. To realize the full potential that analytics offers, don’t overlook the importance of the way you organize your…