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Eating the Elephant of Data Strategy

Paul Blogs on BI

While the current state subject matter expertise is likely to be internal, the future state and gap analysis is often better performed by Data Architects and consultants who have done this exercise before and can bring both experience and current technology/methodology knowledge to the table.

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How to unlock a scientific approach to change management with powerful data insights

IBM Big Data Hub

Leveraging data to replace the ‘gut feel’ on which too many business decisions are made enables change practitioners to separate perceptions from reality and decide which processes need the most focus. Process mining tools can perform a fit-gap analysis on new processes to rapidly and more accurately identify the greatest change impacts.