What Makes Good Analytics: Vision and Direction
Justus Niemzok
June 23, 2022
Strategy, Vision & Roadmap
Our Strategy, Vision and Roadmap (SVR) sessions assess the state of your analytics environment and business to outline a confident future with your data.
Dustin Wyers
Assist Lead
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Lindsey Ison
BI Support Engineer
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An InterWorks SVR brings business, analytics and technology stakeholders together for a series of cross-functional workshops. We’ll provide concrete recommendations in each area we explore, maximizing the value of your data, optimizing people and processes, and contributing to your strategic organizational goals in a meaningful way. Below, you’ll see the five key areas we hone in on to ensure thorough and sustainable success.
Vision
Identifying your North Star early to assess your ability to execute on key objectives and goals.
- Identify opportunities for data to create business value
- Capture timelines for major milestones, outcomes, and targets
- Explore existing pain points and challenges in leveraging data
- Map ownership and contributions of internal groups
Data Strategy
Evaluating existing strategies for data capture, storage, preparation and analytics.
- Review architecture, capacity, licensing and performance
- Inventory data systems, sources, standards and catalogs
- Define data temperature strategy
- Establish security and governance baselines
Platform
Understanding the requirements for maintenance and preventative health in your data systems.
- Review tool selection, architecture, capacity and performance
- Structure platform management, administration and governance
- Risk evaluation, cloud vs on-premise strategy, disaster planning
- Define analytics access systems
People
Focusing on the people within your organization and their experience with data and analytics.
- Define roles and responsibilities for users
- Refine education and enablement strategies
- Define long-term support strategies
- Capacity planning for future adoption and demand
Process
Reviewing management, governance and organizational strategies for success drivers.
- Understand analytics organization structure and CoE
- Explore Analytics-as-a-Product and Self-Service strategies
- Plan analytics governance path to production
Putting It All Together
Our final step will provide definite direction from each area within your roadmap. We'll review our findings and recommendations together, outlining the best possible path forward. We can then help you execute that strategy with awesome efficiency.
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