Analytics Adoption

Is your company striving to improve performance through more data-driven decision-making? Maybe you’re hiring data scientists, building data platforms, and deploying analytics programs, but have you thought about how to make sure that these investments pay off? You’re not alone if you’re finding it challenging to get stakeholders to consistently use the insights from your investments.

The Pacific Northwest Data Analytics Leadership Board has been exploring this question together. We reflected on our own experiences as leaders in data and analytics and wrote 14 case studies so that others can benefit from both successes and lessons learned. Through collegial conversation, six themes were crystalized as important analytics adoption best practices. Our board members, who are data analytics leaders in enterprises in the Greater Seattle Area, worked together with support from Unify Consulting to write articles for each of the six themes, highlighting real world applications from the case studies. It is our hope that you can benefit by applying these best practices to achieve greater value from your analytics investments.

Here’s a sneak peek at the six topics that we’ll be covering in the coming weeks:

• Engaging stakeholders and aligning analytics to business value 

• Building a data culture

• Establishing team composition and organizational structure

• Driving stakeholder and analytic team engagement

• Curating data and making it accessible for self-service

• Treating data as a product

Which of these best practice themes are you most excited to hear more about from our Board experts? We’d love to hear about it in the comments! Don’t forget to follow the Pacific Northwest Data Analytics Leadership Board for updates. And share this with your colleages – it's always more fun to learn together!