Is Your Data Strategy an Island, a Bridge or a Rapid Response Team?
Implementing an effective data and insights strategy. It’s certainly a business goal for most leaders.
However, easier said than done… There is a natural tension between management’s need for rapid response data insights into business processes and operations and the reality of understanding, structuring, cleansing, curating and delivering this data insights capability “as a service”.
As an organization, you are certainly planning or rolling out an enterprise-wide data strategy. You probably have done anything from setting up a lab, building data lakes, acquiring analytics and process mining platforms to hiring/contracting the appropriate staffing for it. You may even have appointed a “Chief Data and Analytics Officer”
You already know that it takes time and effort to bridge the gap between what that data strategy is designed to achieve and the direct needs of the business leaders and process owners to exploit data insights to optimize and transform operations today.… Read More
Read MoreDoes Your GBS Have a 5th Gear?
Does Your GBS Have a 5th Gear?
The “front office” is all about winning and sustaining our Customer relationships. The “middle office” is all about product (or service) design, manufacturing, logistics, getting product to the customer. The “back office” is everything else.
Continuous Improvement… Changing the wheels at speed?
In a recent survey we ran in the heat of COVID summer, 75% of Shared Services and GBS leaders agreed that the business emphasis is now shifting, as a result of the crisis, from large scale transformation initiatives to more targeted process change and continuous improvement.
Data Culture is the new Business Challenge
Data Culture is the new Business Challenge
In the clamour of constant challenge to be more data-driven, businesses worldwide are pushing the agenda on a data-driven culture and processes. “Without data, all you have is an opinion” as the legendary engineer W.
In a recent survey we ran in the heat of COVID summer, 75% of Shared Services and GBS leaders agreed that the business emphasis is now shifting, as a result of the crisis, from large scale transformation initiatives to more targeted process change and continuous improvement.… Read More
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