As companies using analytics in decision making? The extent to which managers access to the data they need? What are the main problems, and how the major business objectives changed? MIT Sloan Management Review and the IBM Institute for Business Value united to ask business leaders, managers, and analysts think about the role data plays in their organizations, and received more than 4,000 responses, representing every major industry in every region of the world. Full results of the second annual survey to be published in autumn 2011 release, but this article provides some preliminary conclusions. The first few results stand out: Only about four out of 10 respondents have access to the information they want, and nearly one-fifth say they have little or no access to the data they need to be successful. Three of the biggest problems people bring to use analytics difficulties "integrating internal data silos," the time and cost analysis, and lack the skills to interpret and use data. While the first three business objectives of the organization refers to the use, analysts have not changed from last year's survey, according to their importance changed in the last year of the respondents said that the most important task was to "innovation for competitive advantage," this year, the number one priority "The growth of income," and then "reduce costs and increase efficiency." Innovation for competitive advantage has dropped to number 3. All told, the 2011 survey contains 27 questions. Charts in this preview article is a response to only eight of them are presented in the form of simple input data, pure and uncut. The full report, the new information will be combined and refined, and in many cases, compared with last year, to give the reader a snapshot of what has changed since our initial survey and the opportunity to compare their organization in relation to its peers. "Hide
by Nina Kruschwitz Source: MIT Sloan Management Review 3 pages. Publication Date: July 1, 2011. Prod. #: SMR391-PDF-ENG
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