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You have to work backwards and know what success will look
like in order to select the tools and platforms that will enable it. If
you don't, you end up throwing a lot of different technologies at
problems in an attempt to solve them.
Starting at the End
They have to be the ones who buy in
companies in a variety of industries
Our goals had been to evolve from
and then market them to the larger
are facing: how to take all the data
reacting to events to using business
organization.
we're capturing and turn it into
information to act before something
Here at Boeing we're confronting the
same challenge that countless other
to the technologies and processes
The goal here is to embed the
usable information.We're collecting
happens - or even to anticipate
analytics as close to the user of the
more data than ever before, and we've
a particular outcome in order to
data as possible. Why? So that it's
had to figure out how to change our
improve results. And that is as much,
actionable.
employees from simple data gatherers
or more, about culture than it is about
Our functional areas were in
and reporters into information users
the technology you use to capture,
different states of maturity in
who create business value.
analyze, and use that information.
terms of being able to capitalize
We want to increase the number of
on the business value of data and
several years. For a large corporation
decisions throughout the business
analytics. It's been beneficial to us
like ours, this level of change takes
where the analysis of information is
to start with the one or two areas
time. The first step was to take a hard
the primary driver of our actions.
that had the clearest understanding
We've been on this journey for
The first step in being able to do
of what success would look like for
gathering to figure out the business
that is to make sure you understand
them. That has made it much easier
value it might deliver.
the problem you are trying to solve.
to deliver something that not only
look at the information that we're
By starting at the end of the process,
reaps rewards for that area but also
Internet of Things and how to use
everything becomes less difficult.
serves as an example to the rest of the
the new data we're getting from
You can't take a "build it and they will
organization of what we can achieve
sensors embedded in machines to
come" approach. You have to work
with fact-based decision making. If
come up with new products and
backwards and know what success
you can achieve that business value
processes. After all, our Boeing
will look like in order to select the
with a fairly quick turnaround, you
787s create half a terabyte of data
tools and platforms that will enable it.
have a model that you can use in
per flight. But there's much more
If you don't, you end up throwing a lot
areas where it might take a little
immediate value we can get from
of different technologies at problems
more effort.
the information locked inside the
in an attempt to solve them.
It's sexy today to focus on the
data we've been gathering for years.
That has to start with the business
Self-Service and Sharing
For us, that meant rethinking how
owners. They have to be the ones
we use the data generated by our
to articulate what success truly is
Another primary goal of this long-
Finance, Supply Chain, and Program
and the value they want to derive
term transformation is to create an
Management functions.
from the data. They have to tell you
environment that enables as much
how they want to measure success.
self-service analytics and reporting
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