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5 Years of Assessing Analytics Maturity
We at IIA delivered our first Analytics Maturity Assessment (AMA) in March 2014. Over the last five years we have seen some key trends across all industries. Join David Alles, VP of IIA, and Jack Phillips, CEO of IIA, as they talk through the top frameworks, insights, and learnings from
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5 Ways Analytics Power Digital Transformation
Are you working to harness the power of digital technology to enhance existing customer value, discover new market opportunities, manage risk, and improve operational efficiency? At the heart of digital transformation is data. New digital technologies are generating mountains of new data that is captured by organizations. However, without analytics,
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5 Trends of the Analytics Evolution: A Fireside Chat with Kathy Koontz and Bill Franks
Join us as we welcome our new Executive Director of the Analytics Leadership Consortium, Kathy Koontz, to the team and hear her insights on the industry. Kathy joins IIA with years of experience working with enterprise analytics teams – from her time at Nationwide to her experience at Teradata –
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Organizing Analytics Teams: New Angles on a Perennial Challenge
Based on IIA’s new and updated research on organizing analytics teams, Research Advisor Bob Morison reviews the objectives and variables of organizational structure and share examples of how enterprises are adjusting their structures to deploy and develop analysts effectively, incorporate new methods and technologies, address strategic business opportunities, and leverage
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Path to Cloud for Analytics
In today’s data-fueled world, organizations are increasingly looking to the cloud for analytics to help accelerate time-to-value, spin up resources at will, and reduce financial risk while enabling in-house talent to focus on value-add. The path to cloud is rarely straight and wide, however, and a number of factors affect
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Embracing Uncertainty: A Lesson From COVID Analytics
We are all painfully aware that there is plenty of uncertainty in the data we analyze and in the results that we generate through data science processes. Most of the time, we focus on removing as much uncertainty as possible in the attempt to provide the single “best” answer to
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Episode 1: Drew Smith
IKEA, the big yellow and blue megastores that everyone loves, does more than just shape the way we live our lives. Underneath the clean lines and tasty meatballs, is a global data and analytics capability optimizing every decision made. In this episode, Drew Smith shares some of his secrets in
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Episode 2: Maria Macuare
When you think of Campbell's Soup, the idea of a grilled cheese dipped in tomato soup pops to mind. What about Chicken Noodle? When it comes to analytics at Campbell's, ingredients don't matter, people do. Maria Macuare came on board three years ago to lead analytics at Campbell's and never
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Episode 3: Albert Marinez + Key Takeaways
When you’re in the business of saving lives, particularly during the pandemic, you better know what you’re doing, both medically and operationally. Albert Marinez recently took over Intermountain Medical Center’s highly developed data and analytics capability, and faced his first real test this year during the pandemic. He’ll share how
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Episode 4: Kira Barclay + Key Takeaways
When you think of America’s oldest heavy industry manufacturing brands, the big green machines from John Deere come to mind. What you may not know is how the company is pivoting to be at the center of intelligent agriculture, backed by an impressive data and analytics team spread across the