Audience Q&A – Analytics Strategy, Skills and Storytelling

This rapid Q&A invites the audience to set the agenda. Bring your most pressing challenges across analytics operating models, skills-based job architecture, real-time BI, and communicating insights that change decisions. The panellists will prioritise practical responses – how to frame value with Finance, balance speed with governance, and turn labour-market and internal data into products stakeholders actually use. The aim is clarity over theory: concise answers, worked examples, and signposts to proven practices you can take back to your organisation.

• Fast setup – gather and prioritise audience questions for maximum relevance.
• Operating models – scope, service catalogue and how to drive adoption at scale.
• Skills-based job architecture – data sources, update cadence and governance.
• Real-time BI and storytelling – turning facts into decisions executives act on.
• AI in the workflow – evaluation, guardrails and hand-offs to business owners.
• Measuring value – capacity, cost, risk and growth – what to report and when.

• Understand how to frame challenges to get a practical, decision-ready response.
• Learn patterns for linking skills architecture to workforce planning and mobility.
• Adopt concise storytelling techniques that prompt action from senior leaders.
• Know the essential guardrails for safe, credible AI-enabled analytics.
• Leave with simple measures and cadences to evidence value, not volume.

Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic

CEO · storytelling with data

People leaders face simultaneous pressures – tighter budgets, AI-driven change, regulatory scrutiny, and the need to move capacity and cost metrics, not just dashboards. Teams must align analytics, skills architecture and communication to deliver credible, finance-literate decisions at speed. A focused, audience-led Q&A surfaces what really works in the situations practitioners are facing right now.