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Harvard Business Review: Why Becoming a Data-Driven Organization Is So Hard
February 24, 2022
“Right now, the biggest challenge for organizations working on their data strategy might not have to do with technology at all. In the latest NewVantage Partners annual survey, which tracks the progress of corporate data initiatives, corporate chief data, information, and analytics executives reported that cultural change is the most critical business imperative.”
CFO Journal: Take Five: Steps to Building a Strategically Adaptive Enterprise
February 24, 2022
“Companies characterized by nimbleness, scalability, optionality, and stability can respond opportunistically to environmental shifts and navigate periods of disruption and crisis better than their competitors. Enterprises with a high capacity for change more consistently achieve superior financial performance and valuations compared with others in their industry. Superior capabilities for change enable exponential enterprises to adapt advantageously despite challenging operating conditions, sustaining their ability to win and to deliver value to stakeholders.”
CFO Dive: Supply Chains Top CFO Business Risk Concerns
February 22, 2022
“To keep costs down and meet those high customer expectations, CFOs call accurate demand and inventory management their most important supply chain priority. The goal is to leverage technology to replace the just-in-time inventory approach that has been causing bottlenecks this past year with something similarly cost-effective but more resilient.”
CFO Journal: Got Data? Now Create the Right Operating Model
February 18, 2022
“Companies embracing an ED&A operating model have the opportunity to unite the enterprise around data and make everyone aware of and accountable for its strategic value. By eliminating data silos and introducing data governance, they give the enterprise transparency and access to high-quality and expanded datasets that enable use cases previously considered out of reach. Data and analytics become available as a service through modular platforms grounded in a common data architecture. Instead of just hindsight, data starts delivering foresight.”
