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How ATD is “Re-Inventing the Wheel” through Advanced AnalyticsUNCC Analytics FrontiersMarch 2019
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This is ATD…
~80,000 customers ~200 suppliers
▪ 140 distribution centers
▪ 5,000 employees
▪ $4.5B in revenue (2017)
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… and this will be ATD in the future
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Three things to make this happen
Recruiting top advanced analytics
talent
Changing the DNA of the company
Make ATD an analytics player
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Three things to make this happen
Recruiting top advanced analytics
talent
Changing the DNA of the company
Make ATD an analytics player
▪ Know your pitch ▪ Create different
culture ▪ Focus on learning ▪ Move beyond the
“classroom”
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Recruiting top advanced analytics talent
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Three things to make this happen
Recruiting top advanced analytics
talent
Changing the DNA of the company
Make ATD an analytics player
▪ Start with executives
▪ Train translators ▪ Democratize
analytics
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Changing the DNA of the company
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Three things to make this happen
Recruiting top advanced analytics
talent
Changing the DNA of the company
Make ATD an analytics player
▪ Find partners ▪ Organize around
events ▪ Spread your
knowledge
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Make ATD an analytics player
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And then this happened
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Analytics became very real…
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… and changed one of ATD’s core processes
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Analytics helped ATD through the toughest year in its history…
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… and now we accelerate (with 25 use cases in parallel and analytics partnerships both up- and downstream)
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Lessons learnt & how we can get better
Be more transparent
Invest in your people
Educate
Measure more
Invest more in your people
Make business
accountable
Fail faster
Push back on the
wrong work
Develop a data
strategy
Don’t accept friction
Document our work
more
Demand a seat at the
table
Push the envelope
Don’t sound too smart
Invest in others
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Thanks a lot!
Questions? Tim Eisenmann Chief Analytics Officer, ATD [email protected] 646 651 5798