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Strategy & Thought Leadership

Prioritizing Analytics Efforts: A Framework

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…

Creating A Data Strategy

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.…

Analytics Application Lifecycle Framework

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.…

Six Organizing Models for Analytics Teams

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…

Analytics 4.0

Building on its predecessor, Analytics 4.0 marks a point when organizational culture allows for the embedding of finished-product advanced analytics into decision flows and operational business processes. Centered upon the…

2021 Analytics Predictions & Priorities

We are pleased that our annual Predictions and Priority research brief and the associated webinar have become among IIA’s most popular pieces of content of the year. This year, we’re…

Ideal Analytics Organization

By Doug Hague Excerpt: ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE To set the stage, the analytics organizational structure being presented below pertains to an analytics organization between 60 and 120 people; this is the…

Just How Important Is AI to Your Company?

By Thomas H. Davenport Excerpt: It’s still early days for artificial intelligence (AI) in the enterprise, and if you have some responsibility for analytics and/or AI within your company, you…

2020 Predictions & Priorities

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. Our predictions are…