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Executive analytics:Nine strategies to deliver digital solutions
Common pain points
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• Unactionable, indigestible data
• Too many dashboards
• Data delivered in a vacuum
Most executives face common pain points in their
business intelligence (BI) and reporting solutions:
Business context
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The nine strategies
Improve the executive decision model
and transform the organization
Executive decision model
Internal analysis External
information
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Strategy
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Select an analytic platform Should address both enterprise and executive requirements
• Dynamic and immediate data
• Visual interfaces with interactivity
• Multidimensional analysis
• Unstructured information discovery
• Personalization to end users
• Action frameworks and alerts
• Device agnostic
Look for these platform capabilities:
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The Platform Lays the foundation for future executive analytic strategies
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Discover, predict and prescribe
Strategy
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What are analytics?
Predictive analytics builds on
descriptive analytics by combining
historical data with various algorithms and
rules about what might happen in the
future.
Prescriptive analytics builds upon
both descriptive and predictive analytics; it
predicts what will happen, when it will
happen, why it will happen — and what the
best course of action is to optimize
outcomes and reduce risks.
Basic analytics
Descriptive
Predictive
Prescriptive
Advanced analyticsDescriptive analytics uses historical
data to understand what happened and
why.
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Understanding the maturity model and need for a
comprehensive framework for flexibility is the key
to unlocking the value of advanced analytics.
Prescriptive analytics is a key differentiator
between industry leaders and followers.
Advanced analytics
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Facilitate the conversion of
measures to KPIs
Strategy
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Key Performance IndicatorsEssential to gauge what "right" looks like.
• when they are on course
• when they need to right the ship
KPIs can present a view to let executives know:
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Link strategies to measures &
reports
Strategy
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Linking strategiesMeasurements
Detailed reports empower leadership
to understand why a strategy is
succeeding or failing.
Identify financial and nonfinancial measures
that serve as the indicators of the health of
the business and gauge its strategy.
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Invoke multidimensional
balanced scorecarding
Strategy
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Balanced scorecardingMultidimensional applications should effectively sort
analytics across several factors
Views by business line, geo
location, product or salespersonare just a few ways to review a strategy
to see if there is true alignment across
all facets of the business.
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Provide online content
management for strategic planning
Strategy
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Online contentMaking the strategic plan
digital, and storing it in an
integrated platform with
performance management,
analytics and BI, would bring
the plan into the daily reporting
process.
This process helps provide
context to the data.
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Prompt user actions, alerts &
online collaboration
Strategy
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Prompt the user
The use of prompts accelerates the
ability to react swiftly to assess
critical changes.
Moreover, the accessibility of data
allows for a clear perspective of the
problem-solving process, helping
get the right answer from the right
people.
Swiftly assess critical changes
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Apply advanced visualization
techniques
Strategy
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Visualization techniques
Advanced visualization
techniques will allow different
subsets of KPIs to be cross-
referenced to related subjects and
provide a true 360-degree picture
of performance, as well as the
interdependence of certain
measures.
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Access via executive digital
devices of choice
Strategy
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Device access
Executives must be able to
access dashboards and key metrics
at a glance or on the move. They
need the ability to make key
decisions in real time.
Key metrics on the move
Additionally, executives in board
settings can access reports
along with the drill to detail when questions arise on the fly.
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• drive key benefits
• decrease time to discovery and
insight
• yield faster decisions and responses
to change
Executive analytics brings the ability to discern relationships
across subject areas and divisions, increasing enterprise
collaboration and executive context.
SummaryExecutive analytics strategies have the capability to:
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Ross, Jeanne W.; Beath, Cynthia M.; and
Quaadgras, Anne. “You May Not Need
Big Data After All,” Harvard Business
Review, December 2013.
“Until a company learns
how to use data and
analysis to support its
operating decisions, it
will not be in a position
to benefit from big data.”
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