Insights Talent: Ask, Listen, Act
"Ask, listen, act." If the pandemic has taught us one critical lesson, it's that environmental changes don't occur in a vacuum and can dramatically in...
Insights Strategy
One of the featured categories on All Things Insights, Insights Strategy features a range of helpful information for the insights professional. This includes content such as the purpose and mission of insights, the talent/team, leadership, stakeholders, strategic insights, data-driven culture, organizational influence, the speed and storytelling of insights, upskilling/reskilling, resilience, and more. This section is ideal for those involved in insights strategy, executive management, and recruitment and provides knowledge and education for the insights expert and novice alike.
An insights strategy is a strategic plan that outlines how an organization will gather, analyze, and leverage insights from data and information to drive informed decision-making, innovation, and overall business success. The goal of a data-driven culture is to create a systematic approach to generating valuable insights through strategic data analytics that can guide actions and strategies across various aspects of the organization.
An effective insights strategy enables organizations to transform data into actionable knowledge, helping them make informed decisions, uncover opportunities, address challenges, and continuously innovate. It aligns data-related activities with the organization’s broader goals and ensures that insights become a driving force for growth and competitiveness. From a broader viewpoint, data-driven culture could include objectives and goals, data collection and sources, analysis methods, stakeholder engagement, integration with decision-making, reporting and visualization, continuous improvement, data privacy and ethics, performance measurement, training and skills development.
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Translating Data Into Action
"Data is the new oil," and it seems like everyone wants to get a piece. But what is it that most major companies are missing when it comes to harnessi...
Ripple Effects on Insights
For many of us the pandemic brought along with it a series of impactful changes that honestly, none of us could have predicted. Everything regarding w...
Insights Synergy
As the political climate changes, so do our working habits. Going through a pandemic also changes things, as Jim Newswanger, the Senior Market Intelli...
Timely Insights
"May you live in interesting times." We are all familiar with this curse (or blessing, depending on how you see it). Many of us even know it as Chines...
Insights Enablers
Over the past two and a half years, there "have been more DIY projects'' thus "Insights teams are moving more to becoming consultants and enablers fro...
Insights Hacks
What are the hacks, the shortcuts, the clever or elegant solutions which can be applied now? To answer this question we checked-in with three executiv...
Insights Resilience
Way back at the beginning of our modern almost apocalypse, there was one term used across the globe and up and down the organization- resilience. Faci...
New Work Order: The Future Of Work Is Here
2022 still has some work to do in figuring itself out. We've clearly not yet definitively evolved to what's next. That said, some patterns have emerge...
Internal Insights
Think back to the office of February, 2020. In many ways it felt like the office in February, 2010 and February, 2000. For the most part, every single...