Turning Data Into Profitable Insight

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To collect the right data, you must ask the right questions. When you ask the right questions, you will get the right data.

‘To best leverage analytics, first assess your organization’s analytics maturity.’

‘Effective influencing can help accelerate the execution of any initiative.’

‘Prioritization is a necessary process, which, when done democratically can foster innovation while keeping the organization focused on the big rocks.’

‘Data doesn’t speak; it responds.’

‘Coordination across groups can save on redundancy and create a harmonious organization in which teams build on each other’s success.’

‘If you are a business leader, define your measures of success, uncover drivers of those success metrics, and orient your entire team toward them.’

‘Don’t expect data to reveal insights; instead, ask the right questions to uncover the insights.’

‘If you are a business manager, ask the right questions of data and learn to do simple analytics.’

‘If you are an analytics leader, lay out an analytics agenda aligned to the success metrics and make data access easy across the organization.’

‘Cultivate and motivate your team; inspired team members will go beyond their mandate to deliver.’

‘Think big– what metric can you move with the resources you currently have?’

‘Make decisions based on data; you will consistently drive results if you do.’

Source

Piyanka Jain and Puneet Sharma (2015). Behind Every Good Decision: How Anyone Can Use Business Analytics to Turn Data into Profitable Insight

This Is What Happens When You Put Your Priorities First

‘When you make sure you put your priorities first, the rest of your life will wrap around and fill in the gaps. … You have to put priorities ahead of the little stuff.’ Chris Hodges

Putting the wrong things ahead of the right things won’t get you to where you want to be. If you want the right things to happen in your life, then you must focus on what is really important to you.

If what you are doing is not what you are supposed to be doing, you are setting yourself up for failure. Because you get what you put into something.

Let us not kid ourselves. If you are not putting the right things first, if you are not taking responsibility for what you are doing, if you are not measuring what you are doing, if you are not paying attention to what is going on in your life, you are not being honest with yourself.

You are playing with your future. Do not do that. Do not limit yourself. God is not going to be happy with you. Because God wants the best for you. Because God wants you do great things in your life. God wants you to be a leader, not a follower.

If you want to be better than you were yesterday, you have got to start putting your priorities first. If you are in doubt, remember that God wants the best for you.