There is no point on aimlessly analysing data in the hope that something will jump out at you. It won’t and all that you will do is waste vast quantities of time and effort. Like any search, there must be an objective and a plan to reach that objective. This is where a mature approach to analytics comes in. The author reveals a mature approach to data analysis that includes 4 stages.
Too often software evaluations are restricted to features and functions. It’s like evaluating a car by looking at individual components but without seeing if they all work together to meet your needs. So next time you are tempted to view a demonstration, make sure you’re prepared with questions that will help you to assess the true business value of the solution.
‘Business Analytics’ is often portrayed as the latest miracle cure for managers wanting to improve corporate performance. But like most IT-based capabilities, the hype is often in the realms of fantasy, which can never be realised. However, analytics is a capability that can bring tremendous value to those organisations who understand how and when it can be applied.
The role of planning is to help manage what can be controlled (i.e. the organisation’s business processes, the resources it applies to those processes, and the volume and quality of work done in those processes) to produce outcomes that will achieve organisational objectives, within an uncontrollable and unknowable external environment.
In this blog we will look at the components of a modern solution and why it matters. At the heart of every Analytic application is a mathematically based business model. This model describes the organisation in terms of its relationships between:
Organisations operate in an uncontrollable and often unpredictable business environment, such as market demand, energy, inflation and exchange rates. As a consequence, the role of planning is to help manage what can be controlled to produce outcomes that will achieve organisational objectives, within an uncontrollable and unknowable external environment.
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Most FP&A departments are on a journey to a place where they can cope with today’s ‘new normal’. From our experience, organisations that are in the Leading state of the FP&A Analytics Maturity Model exhibit several characteristics.
Synergistic teams are built by understanding where people best fit into the team. The biggest drivers of productivity have always come when people have purpose and are allowed to be creative.
These notes were made during the meeting of the FP&A Board on 6th February 2020 in London. They are a mixture of comments made by attendees and thoughts of those who presented case studies. These notes are the copyright of the FP&A Board and are for the attendees of the FP&A Board and their business colleagues. They are not to be used in publications unless authorized by the FP&A Board.
In December 1999, Gartner introduced the concept of Corporate Performance Management (CPM), which they defined as the “... the processes, methodologies, metrics and systems used to monitor and manage an enterprise's business performance”.