DataKitchen

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Your data consumers are focused on business objectives. They need to grow sales, pursue new business opportunities, or reduce costs. What would it mean for a company to lead its industry in savvy and business agility? Impactful DataOps projects are those that help colleagues and executives pursue their objectives.

Business Objectives 245

Business Objectives Cost-Benefit Measurement Metrics 245

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Aligning modernisation with the firm’s business results and corporate vision is another key factor. The prioritisation and implementation of steps have to be adapted accordingly in order to achieve specific business objectives.

Cost-Benefit 122

Cost-Benefit Consulting Business Objectives Data Architecture 122

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Clearing business strategy hurdles Choosing the right technologies to meet an organization’s unique AI goals is usually not straightforward. Business objectives must be articulated and matched with appropriate tools, methodologies, and processes.

Analytics 97

Analytics Cost-Benefit Finance Data-driven 97

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

APRIL 29, 2025

Ultimately, this pressure weighs heavily on security leaders, hindering their ability to align security goals with broader business objectives. Streamlining operations and modernizing security management is essential for overcoming these barriers and ensuring alignment with current business objectives.

Enterprise 130

Enterprise Business Objectives Risk Management Risk 130

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

DECEMBER 31, 2024

CIOs and IT leaders play a pivotal role in championing automation technologies that improve alignment with overall business objectives and foster a culture of innovation. Developing a phased migration strategy can mitigate risks and smooth the transition from legacy systems to modern automation solutions.

Cost-Benefit 130

Cost-Benefit Data-driven Enterprise Business Objectives 130

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

For example, IT and business leaders could be jointly measured on metrics such as the adoption rate of new digital platforms or improvements in customer satisfaction. This approach not only encourages cross-functional collaboration but also ensures that transformation efforts are aligned with broader business objectives.

Digital Transformation 128

Digital Transformation Metrics Measurement Key Performance Indicator 128

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Forrester predicts that vague business objectives and premature integration in decision-making will create confusion when it comes to leveraging AI agents. Determining the optimal level of autonomy to balance risk and efficiency will challenge business leaders,” Le Clair said.

ROI 127

ROI Data-driven Enterprise Experimentation 127

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 14, 2025

How does our AI strategy support our business objectives, and how do we measure its value? Too quickly people are running to AI as a solution instead of asking if its really what they want, or whether its automation or another tool thats needed instead, says Guerrier, currently serving as CTO at the charity Save the Children.

Strategy 141

Strategy ROI Experimentation Risk 141

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Instead, CIOs must partner with CMOs and other business leaders to help quantify where gen AI can drive other strategic impacts especially those directly connected to the bottom line. Below are five examples of where to start.

Sales 143

Sales Metrics Data-driven Measurement 143

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 7, 2025

But CIOs will need to increase the business acumen of their digital transformation leaders to ensure the right initiatives get priority, vision statements align with business objectives, and teams validate AI model accuracy.

Digital Transformation 143

Digital Transformation Experimentation Cost-Benefit Strategy 143

Rocket-Powered Data Science

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

First, don’t do something just because everyone else is doing it – there needs to be a valid business reason for your organization to be doing it, at the very least because you will need to explain it objectively to your stakeholders (employees, investors, clients).

Strategy 290

Strategy Experimentation Uncertainty Machine Learning 290

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 21, 2025

CIOs, therefore, need a clear strategy for aligning GenAI investments with organizational capabilities and business objectives to justify both current spending and future growth. At the same time, organizations must maintain a realistic understanding of their AI maturity to avoid overestimating readiness or scaling too quickly.

Cost-Benefit 98

Cost-Benefit ROI Measurement Strategy 98

Rocket-Powered Data Science

JUNE 17, 2022

Observability is a business strategy: what you monitor, why you monitor it, what you intend to learn from it, how it will be used, and how it will contribute to business objectives and mission success. The key difference is this: monitoring is what you do, and observability is why you do it.

Machine Learning 238

Machine Learning Recreation/Entertainment Risk Business Objectives 238

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Rick Boyce, CTO at AND Digital, underscores how a typical IT project mentality toward DevOps can undercut the CIO’s ability to deliver on business objectives. Platform engineering is one approach for creating standards and reinforcing key principles.

Enterprise 143

Enterprise Testing Business Objectives Experimentation 143

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 7, 2025

To do so, we need to first ask ourselves three key questions: Question #1: How will we use AI to meet our specific business objectives? Lets promise ourselves that this will be the year that we adopt a pragmatic approach to harnessing the vast potential of AI. Question #2: How will we make sure that we use AI responsibly?

ROI 52

ROI Business Objectives Technology Optimization 52

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

But in some cases, a leadership change becomes necessary for the good of the team and the success of the project or business objectives.” Open communication and a collaborative approach are key to resolving most issues, but the success of the team and business objectives must come first.”

Reporting 128

Reporting Business Objectives Consulting Manufacturing 128

datapine

JULY 17, 2019

Let’s start by considering what KPIs are and what they mean in a business context. KPI is a value measured to assess how effective a project or company is at achieving its business objectives. What Is A KPI? As such, performing an audit of your data sources is essential.

KPI 223

KPI Reporting Key Performance Indicator Dashboards 223

BA Learnings

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Critical success factors can be a help in this regard, allowing you to measure and track your progress in achieving overarching business objectives. Deciding what matters Does your team have its eye on the ball? You can refer to them whenever you need to, ensuring that your strategies are on track.

Key Performance Indicator 130

Key Performance Indicator KPI Business Objectives Sales 130

BA Learnings

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

If you’re a manager in charge of a business analyst team or are a part of any team in charge of achieving key business objectives, this article discusses useful insights on how you can trigger and sustain critical thinking in the team. You present a business analysis plan and ask your team members to share their thoughts.

Business Objectives 177

Business Objectives Business Analysis Management IT 177

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Skills gaps “hold workers back from reaching their full potential” and ultimately “hinder organizations in achieving their key business objectives,” said Ciara Harrington, the company’s chief people officer, in a release. The most critical gap? AI and machine learning (ML).

Machine Learning 135

Machine Learning Business Objectives Statistics Management 135

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Besides technical considerations, however, there are unique business implications to consider, adds Bizagi’s Vázquez. “We We must address the value proposition, who the target user is, what the alignment with the business objectives is, and how APIs can be marketed and monetized, if possible,” he says.

Business Objectives 124

Business Objectives Cost-Benefit Strategy Data-driven 124

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 23, 2022

Organizations should embrace value-based decision making that focuses on the business objectives and that benefits for the various stakeholders (technology, operations, procurement, finance, security, data analytics, environment, etc.) Additionally, the NaaS provider removes the traditional challenges of managing/operating networks.

Cost-Benefit 105

Cost-Benefit Business Objectives ROI Risk 105

Rocket-Powered Data Science

JULY 6, 2021

Observability is a business strategy: what you monitor, why you monitor it, what you intend to learn from it, how it will be used, and how it will contribute to business objectives and mission success. The key difference is this: monitoring is what you do, and observability is why you do it.

Machine Learning 279

Machine Learning Data-driven Deep Learning IoT 279

AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The seamless integration of these services works cohesively to achieve end-to-end business objectives. In this architecture, purpose-built services like AWS Data Exchange, AWS Glue, AWS Clean Rooms and Amazon DataZone, have been used. The following diagram illustrates this architecture.

Sales 116

Sales Data-driven Data Processing Key Performance Indicator 116

IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The primary goal of any data governance program is to deliver against prioritized business objectives and unlock the value of your data across your organization. Realize that a data governance program cannot exist on its own – it must solve business problems and deliver outcomes.

Data Governance 76

Data Governance Business Objectives Data Quality Measurement 76

datapine

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

When selecting KPIs to measure success, align them closely with your overarching business objectives. Anything else is just background noise and can distract you from what’s truly important in your business. While both can help to tell a story about your business’s performance, the two are not interchangeable.

KPI 221

KPI Management Key Performance Indicator Measurement 221

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 24, 2024

Organizations that have made progress on environmental objectives to include circular economy principles have also made progress on broader business objectives of better asset management strategies and reduced procurement cycles.

Management 110

Management IT Cost-Benefit Metrics 110

AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 16, 2024

With SageMaker Lakehouse unified data connectivity, you can confidently connect, explore, and unlock the full value of your data across AWS services and achieve your business objectives with agility.

Visualization 95

Visualization Data Processing Testing Publishing 95

DataKitchen

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Why is the change necessary (alignment with business objectives or regulatory compliance)? Their role is to highlight problems and propose solutions, but the responsibility for actual changes often lies with data engineers or business units. How the change should be communicated and implemented.

Scorecard 177

Scorecard Data Quality Measurement Testing 177

Octopai

JULY 11, 2022

Tie data quality directly to business objectives. How are you, as a data quality evangelist (if you’re reading this post, that must describe you at least somewhat, right?), going to convince top-level management that adopting a data quality strategy pays big dividends? Better data quality? How will it directly impact our bottom line?”.

Data Quality 98

Data Quality Strategy Business Objectives Sales 98

Smart Data Collective

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Not only do you want to ensure that your predictive analytics tools are providing you with an accurate forecast after data preparation, but you also want to determine that you can correlate predictive analytics to your business objectives.

Predictive Analytics 139

Predictive Analytics Analytics Predictive Modeling Data mining 139

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Increasingly, it’s about using the cloud to give organizations the facility and flexibility to achieve their business objectives faster, rather than necessarily having numerous added features from the onset. “Agility is not always well understood,” explains DePerro. For many, multicloud is the new reality.

Cost-Benefit 98

Cost-Benefit Business Objectives Business Driver Data Processing 98

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 11, 2024

What that means differs by company, and here are a few questions to consider on what the brand and mission should address depending on business objectives: Is IT taking on more front-office responsibilities, including building products and customer experiences or partnering with sales and marketing on their operations and data needs?

IT 136

IT Digital Transformation Broadcasting Business Objectives 136

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 3, 2022

Throughout this time, Garvey-North has focused on four areas of business: to improve IT operations, simplify employee and customer experiences, build a performance and governance team to deliver projects and improve IT governance and ensure strategic technology and digital delivery is aligned with business objectives.

IT 98

IT Business Objectives Technology Strategy 98

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 14, 2022

Forty-eight percent of those polled also say that a distinctive culture can result in better business outcomes, while nearly 90% point to improved customer satisfaction. While that is a good foundation, sustaining a strong culture, especially in today’s hybrid work environment, requires less rhetoric and more action.

IT 105

IT Business Objectives Metrics Reporting 105

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

You’re ignoring the culture aspect of agile — or not aligning it with business objectives Transformation requires a culture change for people to look beyond how things work today and to challenge assumptions. You can always add more, but you can never get back the wasted time.

Digital Transformation 135

Digital Transformation Uncertainty Metrics Business Objectives 135