CULTURE SHIFT – An indispensable shift to building an AI-Powered organisation

Helping leaders make more informed, effective and intelligent business decisions is the core idea behind analytics. Yet, entrenching data, evaluation, and evidence-based reasoning into the organisation’s decision-making processes has fallen short of mainstream application in a wide variety of cases. In a report published by Deloitte on Becoming a Data-Driven Organisation, surveyors found that “fewer than four in 10 (37 per cent) place their companies in the top two categories of the IDO (Insight Driven Organisation) Maturity Scale, and of those, only 10 per cent fall into the highest category. The remaining 63 per cent were aware of analytics but lacked infrastructure, found themselves still working in silos, or were expanding ad hoc analytics capabilities beyond silos”.

Reasons for this vast discrepancy ranged from lack of leadership direction to even a lack of