Be Bold in Starting Analytics: Times Have Changed

Jordan reflects on the difference in his experiences of two journeys, five years apart.

Starting an organisation on an analytics maturity journey has long been viewed as a daunting task. But, following years of technology change and advancement, and the laser focus the last 2 years have given business leaders on the need to make data-driven decisions about people and business outcomes – the journey can be much faster.

Now is the time to really double down on enhancing decision making about people and business outcomes with meaning analytics and insights, to move from data-supported, to data-driven decision making – and it’s not as daunting a task as once it was.

• The context for building analytics capability and maturity has evolved. Now is the time to get going
• The shift in data privacy frameworks has become a huge enabler of people analytics teams
• There is a pull from business to accelerate maturity in using people analytics
• From data-supported to data-driven has become a rapid change available to the bold.

• Inspiration to get things started
• Ideas for enabling rapid change
• Ideas to focus on driving behaviours.