The document summarizes insights from a research symposium on current trends, challenges, and risks in marketing, communications, and analytics. Some key findings include: centralization of data and analytics often fails to provide actionable insights; analytics teams lack knowledge of what they analyze; and most business professionals cannot use BI tools. Additionally, aggregating and optimizing data remains a challenge. The presentation calls for increased accountability, new compensation models based on proven impact, standardized measurement metrics, and third party auditing of performance and impact.
CMO/CCO, now analytics software CEO
Business bias, then function
Worked on the business impact question for 12-13 years
Collaboration with 600+ F500 CxOs for more than a decade
Proof is a fully democratized business impact analytics platform with five major use cases: marketing, communications, HR, CSR, and IT change management.
There are no “soft factors” – only those not well instrumented
Combination of client work, large surveys and CxO interviews.
We worked directly with more than 200 Fortune 1000 organizations to learn what’s getting in the way of successful data-driven decision making and here’s what we learned:
Analytics teams don’t know the business. 70% of companies struggle with lack of functional knowledge: analytics professionals don’t know the right questions to ask from the data.
Business teams don’t understand analytics. Almost 100% of organizations believe that business professionals don’t have enough technical knowledge to use legacy BI tools.
90%+ reported having plenty of performance data, but that aggregating and optimizing that data remains a challenge.
So much data. So few insights. Data analytics teams can’t keep up with demand for insights due to limited access to quality data (not the absence of it), inadequate legacy software, and conflicting expectations between business and analytics teams.
96% of companies ranked external partners, agencies, and consultants as “consistently well below expectations” when it comes to performance measurement.
100% cited data security as the primary blocker to true data federation: their ability to bring relevant data together across their enterprise ecosystem.
95% of organizations suffer from inadequate time-to-insight: their data analytics teams often fail to deliver results when the business needs them.
Distrust, bias, and blind spots. Teams across the organization, from analytics to functional groups to the C suite, don’t trust their data analytics unless it’s data they control. This sets up organizational and technical silos that get in the way of a data-driven enterprise.
Proof was the first company to create a mathematical engine that reveals the hidden business impact of marketing and communications.
Wrapping it in easy-to-use software, we’ve made it easy to crunch your data and reveal what’s moving the needles the business cares about, and how long it takes to move them.