{"id":13325,"date":"2017-02-28T15:05:30","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T14:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/?p=13325"},"modified":"2017-02-28T15:05:30","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T14:05:30","slug":"bi2017-deloitte-keynote-seize-the-insight-driven-advantage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/bi2017-deloitte-keynote-seize-the-insight-driven-advantage.html","title":{"rendered":"BI2017 Deloitte Keynote: Seize The Insight-Driven Advantage"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the SAP Insider BI2017 \/ HANA 2017 conference,\u00a0Jag Bandla<\/a> and Chris Dinkel<\/a>\u00a0shared\u00a0the practical experiences of\u00a0Deloitte customers in the market, and gave a preview of where things are going in the future.<\/p>\n

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Jag opened up the session talking about his personal experiences of doing analytics at Deloitte:<\/p>\n

Over the last seventeen years I’ve done lots of operational reporting projects. And my takeaway is this: it doesn\u2019t matter how many reports we build, unless that data actually gets acted upon.<\/p>\n

And this can happen in two different ways. A sales person, say, can look at the data and figure out what to do do differently in the future. That’s what we mostly do.<\/p>\n

But you can also take the data and really\u00a0embed it\u00a0in real time into business processes. Take the example of purchase orders. What typically happens today is that you choose a vendor in the system, and itemize what you want to buy.<\/p>\n

But when you think about it, that’s the wrong way around! You should put in what you want to buy, and the system should use all the data available to figure out the best vendor, in real time…<\/p>\n

Technology is just one aspect of getting it right. There are a lot of smart people in this room that can implement technology. But are we really thinking about what it means to the business when you embed analytics?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Jag and Chris covered the research around the top trends in IT for the “Kinetic Enterprise”. The first of the trends covered — IT unbounded<\/strong> — covered the transformation of IT into an open, agile, and cross-disciplinary operating and delivery model.<\/p>\n

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Deloitte does a lot of research<\/a> into business satisfaction with IT, and the changing nature of the IT function.<\/p>\n

The chart on the right shows some of the big gaps between what the business expects of IT organizations, and what it’s currently capable of delivering.<\/p>\n

These gaps have driven the adoption of “shadow IT”, but Deloitte believes that the next phase of IT-business collaboration will dissolve the idea of shadow IT by fundamentally blurring the line between\u00a0the two.\u00a0Going forward, they should be\u00a0be joint partners in the use of technology to operate a function or commercialize a product<\/p>\n

Key recommendations to current IT leaders from Deloitte include:<\/p>\n