the ceo wants analytics! now what?
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Introduction to scoping analytics initiatives for business analysts. Explains how advanced analytics such as statistics, data mining and text mining improve the bottom line, why business analysts are well-equipped to promote effective use of analytics, and key issues for scoping analytics initiatives.TRANSCRIPT
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The CEO Wants Analytics! Now What?
Meta S. Brown
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You are listening to Toccata & Fugue in D-minor BWV 565 by J. S. Bach, played by Frederik Magle on the organ of Latvia’s Riga Cathedral.
You may wonder why you are listening to Toccata & Fugue in D-minor BWV 565 by J. S. Bach, played by Frederik Magle on the organ of Latvia’s Riga Cathedral, and what this has to do with business intelligence, analytics or any other matter pertaining to you.
Make yourself comfortable, and I will explain all that when the presentation begins.
This performance can be downloaded here:http://www.magle.dk/music-forums/23-bach-toccata-fugue-d.html
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Artist
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Us
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Not Artists
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Get Ready for a New Era
Who?
What?
Why?
When?
Where?
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Get Ready for a New Era
Who?
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Get Ready for a New Era
Who?
Business Analysts
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Get Ready for a New Era
What?
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Get Ready for a New Era
What?
Executive demands for volumes of in-depth, constantly updated analytics driven by
bestselling business books and influential management consultants and vendors.
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Get Ready for a New Era
Why?
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Get Ready for a New Era
Why?
To stay competitive,
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Get Ready for a New Era
Why?
To stay competitive, so everybody can eat.
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Get Ready for a New Era
When?
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Get Ready for a New Era
When?
Already begun. Coming soon to a theatre near you.
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Get Ready for a New Era
Where?
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Get Ready for a New Era
Where?
That’s a good question.
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Get Ready for a New Era
HOW?
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A New Era in Analytics
What’s the big deal?
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A New Era in Analytics
Google reports 33,100 searches for “business analytics” per month
IBM survey - 2,500 CIOs – 83% identified analytics as a priority
Web commerce ideal for analytics – over 25 million business websites in the US
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Analytics?
Using only the information on a brief loyalty
card application, a retailer can accurately estimate each customer’s spending propensity, and use that information to target mailings and improve returns on marketing expenses.
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Analytics?
Through investigation of routine claims processing data, an insurer discovers that one office is processing common claim types far more quickly than other comparable offices. By duplicating the practices of this office throughout the business, processing costs can be reduced, and customer satisfaction improved.
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Analytics?
A manufacturer, faced with shutdown or costly retrofit to a factory due to a series of accidental chemical releases, uses historical operating data
to identify advance indicators of failure, prevent further accidents and continue to operate without major plant modifications.
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Business Analysts
• Big picture• Functional structure• Probing questions
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Business Analysts
• Big picture• Functional structure• Probing questions
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Questions
• Real business problems
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Questions
• Real business problems
• Responsibility
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Questions
• Real business problems
• Responsibility
• Value
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Questions
• Real business problems
• Responsibility
• Value
• Willingness to change
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Creating Structure
• Process
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Creating Structure
• Process
• People
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Creating Structure
• Process
• People
• Tools
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Beware the worst tools of all!
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The worst tools of all
What We Know About Spreadsheet Errors
Raymond R. PankoUniversity of Hawai’i
College of Business Administration
Spreadsheet Research (SSR) Website: http://panko.shidler.hawaii.edu/ssr/
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Questions
• Real business problems
• Responsibility
• Value
• Willingness to change
© 2011 Meta S. Brown
Meta S. BrownLearn more about analytics: http://www.metabrown.com/articles
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