Watch the live session on-demand here: https://goo.gl/Sc6JNG An increase in data leadership correlates to an increase in business success. Every single item on a company mission statement relates to data at some level. It is from the position of data expertise that the mission will be executed and company leadership will emerge. The data professional is absolutely sitting on the performance of the company in this information economy and has an obligation to demonstrate the possibilities and originate the architecture, data and projects that will deliver. After all, no matter what business you’re in, you’re in the business of information. The data leader will anticipate the need -- the voracious need -- for data. If the need does not seem to exist, that is where to start. Commit to growing the data science at your organization. It's simply not enough to be responsive to urgent requests and be the data leader that companies need. The speaker will share from experience some of the hallmarks of mature, leading data environments that leaders will be guiding their data environments towards in the next few years, with the goal of helping true data leadership emerge.

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William McKnight
www.mcknightcg.com
214-514-1444
Company Leadership from Data Leadership
An Increase in Data Leadership Correlates to an Increase in
Business Success
@williammcknight

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Source: 603 global decision-makers involved in business intelligence, data management, and governance initiatives Source: Forrsights
Strategy Spotlight: Business Intelligence And Big Data.
Top Performers Realize They
Need Data
14%
19%
3%
8%
7%
7%
21%
13%
“What best describes your firm’s
current usage/plans to adopt big
data technologies and solutions?”
Planning to implement in
more than 1 year
Planning to implement in
the next 12 months
Implemented, not
expanding
Expanding/upgrading
implementation
Average
performers are
thinking about
big data
Top performers
are expanding
their big data
implementations
Big Data
Adoption
Company
Performance

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Some Top Initiatives
 Subject Areas
• Customer, Product,
Transactions
• Claim, Encounter,
Customer, Product
• Person, Interaction,
Service
• Patient, Research,
Service
 Banking
• Churn Management, Cross-sell,
Up-sell, Compliance
 Insurance
• Churn Management, Cross-sell,
Up-sell, Compliance
 Public Sector
• Homeland Security, Service
Improvement
 Healthcare
• Computerized Patient Record

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2000’s
•
2010’s
Give Me
All Data
Fast &
Effectively!
Give Me
Good Data
But Do It
Efficiently!
1990’s
Just Give Me
Some Data
and Fast!
All Data!

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We Are in the Business of Data
• Our information is exploding
• Our business is real-time, all the time
• Our information differentiates us from our competitors
• Our information quality impacts our clients, our Associates,
and our shareholders
• Our information is used and reused; information usage
drives data value
• Information is a key business asset

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Raise the Foundation of Your
Company
Raise the Foundation of Your
Company

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Hitch your Leadership efforts to
a Ride

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Data Success Measurement
User Satisfaction
Business ROI and
growth instigated
Data Maturity
(Long-term User Sat
and Bus ROI)
Misc.

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Priorities

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Self-Service BI
Self-service business intelligence consists of the
facilities within the BI environment that enable BI users to
become more self-reliant and less dependent on the IT
organization
Self-service BI ≠ BI self sufficiency

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Data Profile vs. Usage Profile

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Best Category and Top Tool Picked
Best Category Picked
Top 2 Category Picked
Same Ol’ Platform
80%
70%
60%
50%
Increasing Probability that Platform
Selection Leads to Success

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Data Everywhere
And in Numerous Technical Forms
And in Numerous Clouds

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Data Virtualization
Enterprise-wide data fabric
providing consistent and timely access
to all structured and semi-structured data
Data Warehouses
Marts & Cubes Operational
Data Stores Transactional
Sources
File Systems
Big Data
Enterprise Data
Virtualization
14

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“It doesn’t take
more time or
budget to do it
right. It takes
knowledge and
focus.”

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Highly Mature Data Environment
Data Strategy
Data as asset in
financial statements /
executives; All
development is within
architecture
Architecture
EDW with DQ scored
and above standard,
enterprise model,
selective change data
Technology
Hadoop in production; Specialized
analytic stores for workloads with
requirements not suited for the
EDW; In-Memory Stores;
Columnar Stores; NoSQL; Data
Virtualization; EDW columnar
Organization
Data Governance by subject area across
all major subject areas; Organizational
Change Management program and part
of all projects; True Self-Service
Business Intelligence; Chief Information
Architect

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“Beyond the Mountain is
another mountain.”

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Data Strategy
Architecture
Technology
Organization
Highly Mature Data Environment
in 1 year

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Social Media
Cloud Computing
Mobile
Internet of Things
Information is the Next Natural Resource
Our economy is entirely dependent on the natural resource of
data.
We will not run out of data, but we may be overwhelmed by it.

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Unlock Potential
William McKnight
www.mcknightcg.com
214-514-1444
Company Leadership from Data Leadership
An Increase in Data Leadership Correlates to an Increase in
Business Success
@williammcknight