Privacy vs. Analytics

Every day, companies seek to gain a competitive advantage in their respective market through more efficient, timely, and cost-effective information gathering and analysis. As this process moves forward, not all governments around the globe are comfortable allowing leading analytics firms carte blanche to mine, store, and report on the information they collect.

We Do Analytics.

. Analytics programs are popular for good reasons. Your company is deploying analytics already – in the form of enhanced reporting, better planning, prediction, and optimization; metrics management; business intelligence; and data management and data governance programs.

Test: Metrics Paradigms

Metrics paradigms, such as Six Sigma and The Balanced Scorecard, can provide helpful points of departure for enterprise metrics and analytics-oriented improvement programs.  How familiar are you with the leading schools of thought?

Test: General Analytics 1

Got the stuff to make a real contribution to your organization’s enterprise analytics program?  Test your understanding of this essential domain.  It’s fun!  It’s free!

Test: Software Vendors 1

Analytics and business intelligence software applications comprise an essential technology infrastructure for advanced analytics, as well as basic business intelligence capability.  How familiar are you with the leading technology vendors?

Software Solutions

Familiarize yourself with some of the most common business intelligence and analytics software products, providers, and solutions.

Paradigms

Business and performance measurement paradigms provide a philosophical point of departure and, in some cases, a prescriptive road-map, for defining how an enterprise measures itself.  Some can be more helpful than others, depending on your culture, industry, and functional domain.  Learn more about the popular paradigms here.

What Does Analytics Mean?

Fundamentally, an “analytic” is any quantifiable informational input to an analysis.  “Analytics”, then, support and enable analysis … and analysis is a very fancy word for pondering and hopefully solving a particular problem, or reach one or more conclusions.  Learn more.

Basic Measurement Nomenclature