Data and Analytics for Digital Transformation

Digital business success begins with strong data analytics leadership and promoting data literacy

Understand trends critical to successful planning

The digital business provides organizations with nearly unlimited possibilities to create business value and, data and analytics are key to a successful digital business.

This collection of more than 100 data and analytics related strategic planning assumptions (SPAs) through 2024 summarizes predictions released in early 2020. Data and analytics leaders should include these in their planning for successful strategies.

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