Decision-Making: The Last Mile of Analytics and Visualization

Synopsis: The lifecycle of data to decision begins with data, moves on to information, analysis, visualization, and finally action or decision. The path is fraught with multiple challenges where each challenge has become the rallying cry for a new technology, acronym, or concept. Examples are metadata, taxonomies, master data, data quality, data ownership, business intelligence, predictive analysis, big data, visualization, data science, etc. The topic that is significantly underserved in all this is the actual usage of the end result in decision-making. What are the challenges in the last mile of the lifecycle? Without a good solution to meeting the challenge of decision-making, the rest of the phases are analogous to producing a Ferrari without giving the user any drivers' education. About the Speaker: Kiran Garimella | Blog: http://www.kirangarimella.com/ C-level executive (ex-GE CIO, ex-GE Chief Architect), BPM expert, author, speaker, and management consultant. Kiran specialize in Business Process Management (BPM), Enterprise Architecture, Data Analytics/BI, Change Management, Centers of Excellence, Continuous Improvement, Business & IT Alignment, Business Transformation, and Governance. He is passionate about helping companies adopt BPM and various standards-based frameworks, processes, and best practices, such as APQC, TOGAF, ITIL, PMI, Balanced Scorecards, Six Sigma, Lean, Business Model Innovation, COBIT, CMMI, and IEEE. He has provided advice and consulting expertise to over 50 companies worldwide: 268,000 miles to 86 cities in 24 countries in the Americas, Europe, Middle East, Asia, and Australia. Sponsor Note: Thanks to: http://HackReduce,org for providing awesome venue for the event. http://A2C.com IT Consulting for providing the food/drinks. http://Cognizeus.com for providing book to give away as raffle.