Data-Driven Agility
How data-driven are you?
Being data-driven defines the ability of an organization to act decisively based on insights derived from data.
From digital to data-driven transformation
To stay competitive in today’s fast changing markets businesses need to become increasingly data-driven. Leading in the digital sphere means transforming your business and operational models to inc. This means they must strengthen their capabilities of data analytics, data science and business intelligence. With artificial intelligence (AI) entering the stage, the potential impact of data has been lifted to new dimensions.
Still there are challenges in how to:
- Translate data and insights into actions
- Ensure decisions are informed by the right data
- Make KPIs drive your business outcomes while staying adaptive and flexible
- Establish a data-driven lean-agile culture fit for digital leadership
Lost in the data gap?
How actionable is your data?
Processing large amounts of data is necessary. But it does not guarantee better outcomes or efficient processes.
Even with high quality data and advanced analytics there is still the challenge how to make sense of your insights, how to put them into context, and – most importantly – how to put them into action on all levels of the organization.
- Greater data complexity leads to exponentially higher interpretation efforts
- Missing data guidance entails loss of direction, focus and priorities
- Data gets stuck in cluttered reports, data silos, multiple sources of truth
Do you act based on insights?
You have the data and the analytics. But decisions still happen based on gut feelings. Data analytics and reporting is lagging behind
The most elaborated analytical tools and methods are of little use if the insights generated from them are not an integral part of business processes – from strategy to operations.
- Data-driven action needs clarity, simplicity and transparency
- Data accessibility must keep up with the needs of agile decision making
- Org structure and processes must be ready to use data-driven insights
Data-Driven Agility fixes this.
Organize around data
Put data first and design your organization around it. Identify and break up data silos. Own your org structure together with your data strategy.
Optimize value and data flows
Understand how the flow of data interplays with the flow of value in your organization. Discover process complexity, redundancies and potential synergies.
evolve your KPI framework
Combine critical metrics to build your KPI framework using a simple and clear structure. Visualize dependencies starting from business outcomes to output- and process-related performance indicators.
Bring data to action
Unblock decisions and action around data by identifying impediments and learning how to resolve them. Streamline steps to make swift and informed local and centralized data-driven decisions.
Put outcomes first!
Managing key performance indicators (KPIs) can be much more than just dry number crunching.
- Make sense of your KPIs by putting them into an clearly structured, actionable framework starting from business outcomes going down to a network of output and process metrics.
- Infuse every step of business process and value generation with data to turn KPIs into a powerful tool for strategic, cross-organizational alignment and business development.
Let data power your agile engine
If data is the “oil” that powers the digital age, agility is its engine.
- Make relevant empirical data available to an agile organization to provide domains and teams with the guidance they need for autonomous fact-based decisions.
- Put traditional lean and agile metrics such as velocity, cycle times, work in process indicators into context and finally make sense of them on an organizational level.
Instant Impact
Experience Data-Driven Agility and benefit from day one
Focus on outcomes
The journey towards Data-Driven Agility starts with identifying key outcome metrics and data to create focus and get priorities straight
Make smarter decisions
Change direction easily
Get a data-based understanding of the degrees of freedom in your operations and business model and lets you iterate towards continuous adaptation.
Fix problems early
Connecting data and value flows allows early discovery and proactive reaction to problems that may arise in the future
Take controlled risks
Smart decision making grounded in data makes risky decisions calculable. Make experimentation, thinking in scenarios and a culture of active risk taking part of your daily business
Break up silos
Agile Data Fusion creates transparency on how data is generated and processed along the value chain
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