Big Idea Competing With Data & Analytics

How are organizations leveraging data and analytics to increase operational efficiency, engage key stakeholders, and report on business successes? From 2010-2018, the Data and Analytics initiative investigated how technology enables competitiveness.

MIT SMR’s research employs global qualitative and quantitative methods to investigate how data is influencing business processes, offerings, and engagement with customers. It looks at trends in the use of analytics, the evolution of analytics strategy, optimal team composition, and new opportunities for data-driven innovation.

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Analytics & Business Intelligence

Better Decision Making with Objective Data is Impossible

As businesses become increasingly data-focused, it’s important to recognize that data is only as good as the analysis it’s put through.

Sam Ransbotham

July 28, 2015

Analytics & Business Intelligence

The New Data Republic: Not Quite a Democracy

Huge, complex datasets are becoming universal. The skills needed to work with them? Not so much.

Sam Ransbotham

June 30, 2015

Analytics & Business Intelligence

At This Education Nonprofit, A Is for Analytics

Chicago nonprofit Christopher House uses data to drive outcomes in providing education services to low-income families.

Lori Baas and Traci Stanley (Christopher House), interviewed by Sam Ransbotham

June 30, 2015

Analytics & Business Intelligence

Innovating with Airborne Analytics

Airline Cathay Pacific incorporates data into all its operations to make decision making more efficient. But experience counts, too.

Joe Locandro (Cathay Pacific), interviewed by David Kiron

June 30, 2015

The Analytics Talent Dividend

An authors’ briefing and Q&A on the findings from the MIT SMR/SAS 2015 global study on data and analytics.

Sam Ransbotham (Boston College), David Kiron (MIT Sloan Management Review) and Pamela Kirk Prentice (SAS)

June 04, 2015

Analytics & Business Intelligence

On the Care and Feeding of Your Analytics Talent

A panel of experts discusses how to attract and manage analytics talent for best results.

Denis Arnaud (Amadeus Travel Intelligence), Tuck Rickards (Russell Reynolds Associates), Sam Ransbotham (Boston College), interviewed by Michael Fitzgerald (MIT SMR)

June 03, 2015

Data & Data Culture

General Mills Builds Up Big Data to Answer Big Questions

Companies adding analytics professionals must navigate cultural tradition and turf tensions.

Wayde Fleener (General Mills), interviewed by Michael Fitzgerald

May 29, 2015

Analytics & Business Intelligence

Participant Questions from the Recent Data & Analytics Webinar

We answer three questions about the findings in our recent Big Idea Initiative research report, “The Talent Dividend.”

Sam Ransbotham

May 27, 2015

Analytics & Business Intelligence

Coca-Cola’s Unique Challenge: Turning 250 Datasets Into One

Coca-Cola uses forward-looking analytics to understand its customer base and international distribution network.

Remco Brouwer and Mathew Chacko (Coca-Cola), interviewed by Sam Ransbotham

May 27, 2015

The Talent Dividend

The 2015 Data & Analytics Report by MIT Sloan Management Review and SAS finds that talent management is critical to realizing analytics benefits.

Sam Ransbotham, David Kiron and Pamela Kirk Prentice

April 25, 2015

Analytics & Business Intelligence

Once You Align the Analytical Stars, What’s Next?

What do you do when you’ve got an unending stream of quality data, and processes in place for analytics… but you’re not sure what to do with it all?

Sam Ransbotham

March 31, 2015

Analytics & Business Intelligence

Minding the Analytics Gap

Increased access to data can be turned into better decision making by focusing on both the production and consumption of analytics.

Sam Ransbotham, David Kiron and Pamela Kirk Prentice

March 16, 2015

Data & Data Culture

What Is Analytics Amplifying in Your Organization?

Analytics acts as an amplifier for business processes — but companies should keep four principles in mind to avoid increasing “noise.”

Sam Ransbotham

February 24, 2015

Data & Data Culture

Analytics in E Major

The Echo Nest, a “music intelligence” company, uses machine-learning technology to connect people with new music.

Jim Lucchese (The Echo Nest), interviewed by Sam Ransbotham

February 24, 2015

Data & Data Culture

Are Data Scientists Really a Breed Apart?

What differentiates data scientists from other quantitative analysts? It’s partly their skill set and partly their mind set.

Leslie Brokaw

February 15, 2015

Organizational Structure

If You Think Big Data’s Challenges Are Tough Now…

By 2020, most new data will be generated not by people but by sensors and embedded, intelligent devices.

Randy Bean

January 27, 2015

Data & Data Culture

Detecting Bias in Data Analysis

Data analysts may have external agendas that shape how they address a data set — but a savvy manager can identify biases.

Sam Ransbotham

January 27, 2015

Technology Innovation Strategy

Gone Fishing — For Data

When it comes to big data, GE avoids warehousing and instead turns to the data lake approach.

Vince Campisi (General Electric), interviewed by Michael Fitzgerald

January 27, 2015

Analytics & Business Intelligence

How to Hire Data-Driven Leaders

As business moves to a real-time, data-driven focus, the search for talent has undergone a quantum shift.

Tuck Rickards (Russell Reynolds), interviewed by Michael Fitzgerald

December 18, 2014

Data & Data Culture

Data Scientist In a Can?

Can we automate enough of what data scientists do to ease the skills gap?

Michael Fitzgerald

December 18, 2014

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