Recipe for success in data driven decision making

Here is a good list of the talent and resources you need to create and sustain your actionable intelligence journey. 

• One spoonful of purpose‐driven passion
  
• One or two strategic business questions to focus on
  
• Organization leaders who know they can do better
  
• One or more senior leaders/business sponsors to support the effort by removing obstacles and enabling results
  
• One business‐led approach to support the culture and mindset change required when new technologies are implemented and strategic business questions are being answered
  
• One budgeting process that supports actionable intelligence
  
• One or more advisors who know where the relevant data resides
  
• One data acquisition team to manage the data needed to answer the question.
  
  
  
  
• One data dictionary to act as a cross‐reference between business terms and related data fields
  
• One central repository , dead simple to use, easy to control, edit, update, and cheap
  
• One visualization team responsible to deliver rapid, iterative answers in a business discovery tool
  
• One business discovery software tool that is easy to install and able to start small and scale big.
  
• One or more forward‐looking intelligence tools made by the team mentioned previously to provide answers to the strategic questions asked by the sponsor
  
• One adoption and insights person who engages business people in value realization
  
• One data management team acting as air‐traffic control to orchestrate success
  
  and the result...
  
  
  
  
  
• Monetized business improvements making the whole team proud.
  
• Passionate business ambassadors who share the results with their colleagues.
  
• A joyful you, who has joined us on the purpose‐driven journey to improve the lives of others by giving them the answers they need to make better decisions faster and easier.