Why Data-Driven Growth is so Difficult

Many executives get excited about the huge potential the new digital world offers to their organizations. Yet despite the billions of profits assumed to be accessible through digitalization, only a fraction of this new wealth is realized. Our project, fashionably entitled “From Big Data to Big Business”, reveals the challenges executives face on their journal …

From Data to Profits: Ingredients for Successful Data-Driven Business Development

This webinar was recorded as part of the series by the CSL Community of Practice on Monetizing Data and Analytics. Any profitable digitization strategy starts with a business model.   Business Model Framework Why going digital? What is the business objective? (Objective) Who are the customers? What are their jobs-to-be-done? (Customers) What is the company offering? (Value proposition) …

Driving Business Value from Digital Transformation

Webinar with Dr. Michael Wade, Professor of Innovation and Strategy and Cisco Chair in Digital Business Transformation, at IMD Business School, located in Lausanne, Switzerland and Director of the Global Center for Digital Business Transformation, an IMD and Cisco Initiative Author of Digital Vortex: How Today’s Market Leaders Can Beat Disruptive Competitors at Their Own Game …

Leveraging Big Data Analytics to Create Value

Interview with Professor Peter C. Verhoef, a co-author of the new book Creating Value with Big Data Analytics: Making Smart Marketing Decisions. Podcast Transcript This podcast was brought to you by the Center for Services Leadership, a ground-breaking research center in the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. The Center for Services …

Hub-of-All-Things: Breaking Data Silos for a Better Service

The advent of the Internet-of-Things (IoT) in today’s world of connected things and connected people has made it possible for firms to harvest lots of real-time customer data – information from people and objects, and indeed everything. This is compounded by individuals spending much of their time generating data for others about our lives, placing …

Aligning Business Model & Culture to Maximize the Analytics Opportunity

In a recent blog post Analytics in Services: Actions versus Talk, we reviewed how companies are applying big data and analytics for both internal and external uses. That review led to a survey and executive panel discussion at the November 2015 Arizona State University Center for Services Leadership (CSL) Annual Compete Through Service Symposium where we further explored adoption rates, challenges, and lessons learned.

Analytics in Services: Actions Versus Talk

The INSIGHT Group / CSL CTS Symposium Survey Panel By Ed Petrozelli By all accounts, the use of big data and analytics is exploding. Ironically, relatively little hard analysis has been done to assess exactly how it is being applied, and to what effect – especially as it relates to services. So, as has been …