Analytics Enablement
Digital transformation initiatives tend to fail when user adoption and business alignment efforts fall short. Successfully executing against a data and analytics strategy requires a multifaceted enablement approach that spans project, product and change management to ensure successful delivery and adoption. Our analytics enablement experts leverage leading tools, proven frameworks and a product mindset to reduce implementation challenges and accelerate success.
Post-implementation, true enablement requires a focus on adoption and facilitating a shift in culture toward analytics. When users understand why a data product exists, as well as what it’s intended to do, your organization can fully reap the operational and growth benefits of these solutions.
Applying a product mindset to analytics solutions: five lessons
Here are five lessons from our experienced product teams using agile, value-centric approaches that can be applied to data analytics and other internal operational solutions.
Enabling successful data and analytics implementations that build trust
Our analytic enablement experts minimize obstacles and expedite client success across all stages of enterprise program, project and product management. They are adept at empowering agile transformations and orchestrating impactful change management. From launching internal data products to accelerating digital transformation, we can help.
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Product Management
By employing a product mindset, our teams ensure that solutions serve the users who will rely on them. Our product managers are solution champions accountable for keeping development efforts aligned to business goals, overseeing continual iterations and ensuring each product delivers value on its first day and last day of use.
Project Management
Project management dovetails with product management by tracking the progress of complex implementations and anticipating roadblocks before delivery. Our project management experts function as invaluable liaisons between teams using different project methodologies (agile vs waterfall), surfacing risks and dependencies to give a full view of the project.
Change Management
Change management in the data and analytic enablement context is all about facilitating adoption, empowering users and incorporating feedback. While a strategy informed by hands-on discovery can get you most of the way there, we help you with the change management required to ensure the strategy becomes reality — not just at launch, but over time.
Business Analysis
From platforms and products to operational strategies and frameworks, our business analysis capabilities can identify what’s working, what isn’t and what optimizations can maximize ROI. We have a keen understanding of how to unearth insight across verticals and specialized functions to drive new value.
Agile Transformation and Delivery
Too often, agile comes to life within one department but doesn’t achieve comprehensive, enterprise-wide adoption. Our agile transformation experts work with you to create a strategy tailored to the objectives and desired outcomes of your business before leading your team through every step of implementation.
Scaled agile transforms how telecom leader brings new products to market
See how the move to scaled agile, led by NTT DATA analytics enablement experts, allowed a large telecom company to improve collaboration, rally around shared priorities and reduce new product time-to-market from 2.5 years to as few as 45 days while cutting costs by 33%.