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This is a book about business technology and business culture. Specifically, it's about how the right combination of technology and culture can transform the use of data and analytics so that even the largest organizations achieve new found levels of agility, insight, and value from their information sources.
This book is also written for a very wide range of business professionals. By that we mean not just senior technology executives and data scientists, but also business users, anyone who might have "analyst" in the job title, and pretty much everyone whose role is impacted by how data is gathered, analyzed and applied in the organization.
Whether you're establishing the next-generation digital strategy, setting up data experiments to explore deep neural networks, or establishing controls for access to your corporate KPI dashboard, this book is for you. Our goal is to build bridges across job functions and departmental silos to solve common challenges that most business professionals will recognize-challenges such as:
"How can we stop multiple teams from pulling information into their own data silos and then spending all our meeting time wondering why everyone's data doesn't match up?"
-Data scientist at a major auto manufacturer
"Just because we're big doesn't automatically mean we're the best; what's the best way to leverage our economy of scale while remaining agile?"
-Chief data officer for a telecommunications giant
"Why is it that my kids at home have self-service apps on their phones to build their own games, but I have to go through IT and a long requirements process every time I want to experiment with data?"
-Product testing analyst at an electronics manufacturer
"Given that our clients rely on us to be there tomorrow with the innovations they need, how can we get on a more predictive curve so any success we have today isn't just on borrowed time?"
-Senior VP for a profitable global networking company
These are tough questions from the many business perspectives you'll find across any company that relies on data (and in today's information-driven economy, which means pretty much any company at all!). Furthermore, these questions are not hypotheticals. They happen to be actual challenges relayed to us by top executives-from Dell, Verizon, General Motors, Siemens, Wells Fargo, and nearly a dozen other organizations we interviewed for this book-about the challenges they and their colleagues face on a daily basis.
Fortunately, these companies came up with innovative and scalable analytic solutions to address these challenges. In the pages to come, we'll examine these success stories and combine them with our own research and emerging best practices in big data and advanced analytics. In doing so, we'll chart a journey through what amounts to a new model for analytic capability, maturity, and agility at scale-something we call the Sentient Enterprise.
At its core, the Sentient Enterprise will change the way everyone in business makes decisions-from small, tactical decisions to mission-critical strategic decisions. We'll chart the path that technology and all of us who leverage it are taking to become more productive. The journey is as complex as it is valuable, so we've organized the Sentient Enterprise into a capability maturity model with five distinct stages:
While Chapters 3 through 7 deals sequentially with each of these five stages, it's important to remember that the journey is an ongoing one, and there is no single point of entry or completion. Think of the Sentient Enterprise as less a finish line than a North Star to guide your quest toward the strongest possible agility and value around data. The good news is that you don't have to do it all-and you don't have to do it all at once-in order to find plenty of big wins along the way.
Data is driving progress across all kinds of industries, but too many people-from analysts and business users to top C-suite decision makers-still don't know enough about how to innovate with it.
A few decades ago, this was enough rationale for most information technology (IT) leaders to dole out resources to the rest of their company colleagues through a stately and slow requirements-driven process. Sometimes that approach is still necessary. But in a world where every home, pocket, and purse has countless real-time and self-service apps, many companies are embarrassingly behind the curve in making data and analytic muscle more accessible to the diverse workforce that needs these resources to innovate.
On an organizational level, failing to leverage data for innovation and decision support can put your whole business on a downward trajectory. Success today requires navigating a constantly expanding data universe, and companies that don't fully embrace the data available to them are operating on borrowed time.
We'll explore in this book how the five-stage Sentient Enterprise capability maturity model can put data in the hands of more business users, part of a broader revolution into how companies listen to data, conduct analysis, and make autonomous decisions at massive scale in real time. In the process, we'll visit with top analytics professionals at some of today's largest and most successful organizations-Verizon, Dell, Cisco, General Motors (GM), Wells Fargo, and Siemens, just to name a few-to see how this revolution has, in many ways, already begun.
"We remind ourselves every day-it's even in our Company Credo-that being big is not the same as being the best," said Grace Hwang, Executive Director for Business Intelligence and Advanced Analytics at Verizon Wireless, one of the top executives who gave extensive interviews for the writing of this book. "Our job is to leverage economy of scale-but at the same time to be nimble and proactive."
In the pages to come, we've packed lots of real-world perspective from Verizon and other influential companies that have agreed to share their...
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