IIA's 2018 Predictions & Priorities

Based on IIA's new and updated research on organizing analytics teams, Research Advisor Bob Morison will review the objectives and variables of organizational structure and share examples of how enterprises are adjusting their structures to deploy and develop analysts effectively, incorporate new methods and technologies, address strategic business opportunities, and leverage the analytics ecosystem.

In today's data-fueled world, organizations are increasingly looking to the cloud for analytics to help accelerate time-to-value, spin up resources at will, and reduce financial risk while enabling in-house talent to focus on value-add.

The path to cloud is rarely straight and wide, however, and a number of factors affect each company's journey:
- Data gravity and migration
- Network connectivity and latency
- Use cases, culture, skills, and expectations

Tune in to this exciting webcast to hear three cloud experts – an architect, an advocate, and an evangelist – engage in a lively, free-flowing conversation about the many considerations when moving analytics into the cloud. One thing's for sure: you'll pick up new knowledge and get a fun, fresh perspective on one of the hottest topics of our era.

Featuring:
- Kevin Bogusch, Cloud Solution Architect, Teradata
- Marc Clark, Global Field Enablement, Teradata
- Brian Wood, Cloud Marketing, Teradata

Moderated by Bill Franks, CAO, IIA

In this webinar, Bill Franks will cut through the hype surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) to help the audience better understand what they need to know about the state of AI today. He will share examples of AI in action and the value it can drive, what AI can and can't do today, how AI differs from (and is similar to) other analytics approaches, tips on getting started, and perspectives on the future of AI. The aim of this webinar is to be both educational and thought-provoking.

Analytics can mean different things to different people depending on their background, perspective, and organizational context and culture. For example, for some, analytics serves as the underpinning of organization strategy and innovation, while others treat analytics as an alchemy yet to be fully understood. Regardless of where you are in your analytics journey, there are a number of best practices that help frame the discussion of analytics value and position an organization for success.

In this presentation, we will talk about the five best practice areas of analytics and the importance of design thinking as a tool to help us design and deliver analytic products and services that create value for organizations.

A Design Self-Assessment Guide for Non-Designers and Business Leaders

More ML, AI, Data Lakes, and Data Viz alone is probably not going to delight your customers or enable your business to maximize the power of analytics. Brian O’Neill (Designing for Analytics) will help business and technology leaders learn how strategic product design and design thinking have a direct impact on turning data into actionable, indispensable insights and enable business objectives to be met. While there are many great data visualization and UI resources available today, this webinar is more focused on the topic of holistic user experience and the role that design plays in enabling delightful end-to-end analytics experiences that also deliver on the bottom line.

A free Self-Assessment Guide will be provided at the end of the webinar so that participants can evaluate current projects against the design techniques and topics discussed in the webinar.

Every day, IIA helps analytics leaders answer their pressing questions. Hear from our clients how IIA helps them improve analytics performance

Southwest Airlines is leveraging a growing team of analytics professionals, ample data, and state-of-the-art methodologies and technologies to create and sustain a strategic competitive advantage. In this webinar, Enterprise Data & Analytics Director, Doug Gray will address Southwest’s journey to date as well as future plans for the use of analytics, and highlight the organizational models, methodologies, techniques, and technologies being utilized. Two award-winning solution case studies will be highlighted: Fuel Supply Chain Optimization & Irregular Ops Recovery Optimization.

UPS has gone through a long evolution in moving up the analytical hierarchy, which required organizational commitment and significant process change. UPS has seen a reduction of 185 million miles driven per year by integrating analytics within its operations’ systems. Its award-winning dispatch optimization tool ORION (On Road Integrated Optimization and Navigation) completed deployment in 2016 and is saving $300M to $400M annually. In this webinar, Jack Levis will share his experiences and best practices to compete with analytics, requiring organizational support in the form of data, tools, and senior management commitment.

Given the recent demand for data analytics and data science skills, adequately testing and qualifying candidates can be a daunting task. Interviewing hundreds of individuals of varying experience and skill levels requires a standardized approach. In this webinar, Tanya Cashorali explores strategies, best practices, and deceptively simple interviewing techniques for data analytics and data science candidates.

Many industries need to consistently be in touch with their customers, but tend to create a poor customer experience with excessive and uncoordinated promotions through a lot of different channels. In this webinar, we will examine an analytical approach that improves customer experience by using a collection of data science algorithms – how to personalize channels and content by inferring customer preferences, how to detect touchpoint sequences that have the best impact on results, and how to design a harmonious sequence of promotional contacts to create the best experience.

Automating the decision-making process and being able to activate machine learning and predictive models into business processes and decision models are key to gaining operational efficiency and digital transformation.

In this webinar, we will explore how analytics-as-a-service and real-time digital decisioning methods and platforms provide lower-cost, more efficient solutions. Expert Joe DeCosmo, CAO at Enova International and Enova Decisions, will explain how businesses can utilize these solutions to vastly improve operational decision-making capabilities and create measurable results.

One of the continual challenges for analytics leaders is measuring the work of their analytics groups and communicating the results to business leaders. Sound measurement and transparency form the foundation for strong working relationships, adequate funding of analytics, and trust in the analytics organization.

Join IIA Lead Faculty Member, Bob Morison as he shares highlights of recent market research on analytics metrics. He'll share best practices in the four key domains of analytics measurement: Intent, Performance, Results, and Health.

The International Institute for Analytics will unveil its annual list of top predictions and priorities on December 7. Each year, IIA shares its perspective on the year ahead in the world of analytics, presenting viewpoints from leading analytics practitioners, executives and thought leaders. This year IIA has gathered feedback from more than 200 analytics executives and our broad network of unbiased analytics experts.

Join IIA Co-Founder Tom Davenport, IIA CAO Bill Franks, and IIA Lead Faculty Bob Morison as they discuss the major trends and pressing priorities analytics professionals should pay attention to in 2018. Don't miss this compelling hour of insights to learn where to focus your time, attention and resources in the coming year.

Learn how top performers are winning with analytics in the Age of the Customer.

Financial Services companies are among the market leaders when it comes to analytics performance. How does your business rate?

Join this webinar to hear how brands stack up in their analytics maturity, where you fit in, and how your institution can measure its performance and improve to stay ahead of the competition.

You’ll hear how Belfius Bank was able to put their analytics into action to improve customer profitability with their “mobile-first” strategy and app, and discover the technologies needed to be a customer experience leader in the Age of the Customer.

Ready to boost your ROI on analytics? Did you know that 80-percent more analytics projects meet or exceed forecasted ROI when they’re aligned with business strategy? What’s your game plan to point your analytics projects where your company or department is headed?

Register for the webinar “Strategies to Overcoming Analytic Obstacles,” and hear from analytics expert, Tom Davenport, at the International Institute for Analytics to learn:
* Four typical issues that risk analytics value
* Proven strategies to boost success
* Prescriptive game plans to drive alignment

While many organizations are keen on becoming data-driven, most focus on only a small fraction of the many types of available data. Not accessing and analyzing a fuller spectrum of data, including those from “dark data”—emails, texts, images, photos, videos, and other documents—along with traditional data sources can limit an organization’s ability to gain a complete picture of their customers and operations, and exclude them from game-changing insights that improve business outcomes. Join Tho Nguyen of Teradata and industry analyst James Taylor of Decision Management Solutions to learn about dark data and the new technologies that make it worth storing and analyzing to become a data-driven organization.

Join Tom Davenport and Jeanne Harris, analytics thought leaders and co-authors of the seminal book Competing on Analytics for a fireside chat where they’ll share key themes from the 10th anniversary edition of their book, Competing on Analytics, coming out in September.

The discussion will focus on examples of companies that have successfully reinvented themselves and are thriving in today’s data economy and discuss what you can do to better compete. The discussion will also dive into what's changed in the 10 years since the book came out, what's still largely the same, and what the most critical factors to analytics success are in today's environment.


Don’t miss this fascinating discussion about Reinvention in the Age of Analytics with Tom and Jeanne.

Join us Thursday, September 21st at 9am PT / 12pm ET.

With the proliferation of analytics expanding across every function of the enterprise, the need for broader access to data, experienced data scientists and intuitive tools for non-technical users to produce reports and make discovery is growing exponentially.

To meet this growing demand, organizations need to invest in the tools, build processes and enable users to be self-sufficient to avoid bottlenecks while at the same time maintaining the governance and data security standards required to safeguard this critical corporate asset.

This webinar will illustrate how organizations are solving these challenges and enabling users to both access larger quantities of existing data as well as add new data to their own models without negatively impacting the quality, security or cost to store that data. It will also highlight some of the cost and performance benefits achieved by enabling self-service data management.

In this webinar, Healthcare Analytics Expert, Dr. Gwen O'Keefe will explore analytics capabilities that have transformed other industries, like healthcare, and how they can be applied to yours. She'll outline the key steps for success and adoption of predictive analytics projects and share how to advance the use of predictive analytics and machine learning to improve all aspects of your business.