Blogs

Quality Thinking: Essential skills for the 21st century​

We can unlock unimaginable human potential, but the limiting factor is not technology but us, our thinking abilities, and our capacity for change.​​

[Part 1] Data-Driven Change: Essential Mindsets​​​​

Clear-eyed analysis often competes with bureaucracy, agendas, egos, and risk-averse, consensus-driven cultures. Mindsets help you take an outside view — outside yourself and your specific circumstances.​​

[Part 2] Decision Process Improvement (DPI): Better, Faster Decisions​​​

In this post, we examine why you need to systematize your decision-making processes to reinforce the behaviors found in data-driven cultures.​​

[Part 3] Using the CALM Method to Sustain Change

​Organizations feel pressure to adapt and change as they scale and operationalize advanced analytics solutions, but they often don’t have a formal process to help sustain the change over time. 

​AI and the Knowledge Worker Revolution

​The ability to query massive stores of unstructured data to extract insights or build applications with just natural language prompts changes what’s possible for individual output and should change our expectations about what people can accomplish and, potentially, their roles within the company.  

Moving Beyond ROI: Return on Adoption

​With generative AI showing early promise of substantial productivity gains, organizations should start to think not just of traditional metrics like ROI but ROA, Return on Adoption as a critical measure of success in the future. 

Video + Podcast

4 Keys to Successful Analytics Change Management​

The CALM method for change can help organizations address this resistance and build an AI-ready organization. ​

Keep CALM and Create Change

In this podcast we discuss how change management is synonymous with continuous learning, common barriers to change and how to foster an environment of trust

Guides

Decision Process Improvement

Check out the Decision Process Improvement Guide to find out how to align your analytics efforts across the enterprise for speed and scale. ​

CALM Change Management

Check out the CALM Change Management Guide to find out how to easily integrate change management capabilities into  your existing project management and analytics software development processes.