Data Governance Separates Winners from Losers
According to a recent IBM report, leading companies are three times more effective in collecting and leveraging information than the laggards in their markets. Analytics has replaced intuition for business decision-making through what IBM dubs business analytics and optimization (BAO).
The IBM report, titled “Breaking Away with Business Analytics and Optimization,” describes three ways leading companies use data to separate themselves from the pack: 1) disrupting the status quo, 2) anticipating the future, and 3) empowering workers to make decisions based on information.
Top performers, IBM continues, are eight times more likely to pursue information-led transformation at an enterprise level than underperformers. The laggards sit around the conference table, each manager with his/her own spreadsheet, arguing over whose data is right. Where does your company fit in? more





