Amongst the key findings: Top performing organisations use analytics five times more than lower performers.
Senior executives now want businesses to run on data-driven decisions. They want scenarios and simulations that provide immediate guidance on the best actions to take.
Top performers approach business operations differently from their peers. Specifically, they put analytics to use in the widest possible range of decisions, large and small. They were twice as likely to use insights to guide day to day operations. They made decisions based on rigorous analysis at more than double the rate of lower performers.
With such emphatic confirmation of the value of analytics organisations may care to consider one class of analytics that is capable of transforming decisions in strategy and innovation. Roadmap analytic distils the insights available within existing roadmap documents an prepares them to support innovation investment decisions.
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