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Srini Koushik President and CEO
Right Brain Systems LLC.
Twitter Handle - @skoushik
RBS on Analytics
innovation – agility - execution
Right Brain Systems LLC.
Building Smarter Organizations
with Analytics
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Big Data
Storage Capacity is growing
at an annual growth rate of
23%
Computing Capacity is
growing at an annual growth
rate of 54%
60% of the world’s
population used cell phones
in 2010 12% of cell phones are smart
phones and this number is
growing at 20% a year
Over 30 million network
sensor nodes in 2010 growing
at 30% a year
30 billion pieces of content
shared on Facebook every
month
13 hours of content is
uploaded on YouTube
every minute Lower barriers to connectivity
drives integration of islands
of data
Source – Big Data – The next frontier for innovation,
competition and productivity
McKinsey Global Institute, May 2011
Digitization and Connectivity drives Big Data
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Consumerization Universal Access Internet of Things
Cloud Computing Social Business Big Data
The pace of change is accelerating and converging
Current trends help drive more data
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“What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.” - Herbert Simon
“Avoidable failures are common and persistent, not to
mention demoralizing and frustrating across many fields –
from medicine to finance, business to government. And
the reason is increasingly evident: the volume and
complexity of what we know has exceeded our individual
ability to deliver its benefits correctly, safely, or reliably. “
Dr. Atul Gawande, The Checklist Manifesto
Human ability to deal with complexity has not changed Machine learning while useful has its disadvantages. Example, automated hedge fund trades Success requires the effective blending of human intuition and decision making with business intelligence and machine learning
Can humans keep up?
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What is Analytics?
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These patterns lead to business insights which can be
translated into specific actions to drive meaningful
business outcomes.
Analytics is the discovery and communication of meaningful patterns in data.
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How did we get to Analytics?
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• Linear programming
• Regression analysis
• Markov chain Monte
Carlo methods
• Simulations
Availability of different
types of data
Digitization & Storage
Easy and inexpensive
access to any data
Cloud and Connectivity
Visualize and act anytime,
anywhere using mobile
devices
Pervasive Access
• Enterprise Data
• Federated Data
• Public/Syndicated Data
• Structured data
• Semi-structured data
• Unstructured data
Computing Capability
Ability to quickly
organize and process a
lot of data
• Provide insights and
actions in real-time
• Deliver them to the where
they can be used
• Access them from any
device
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Business Intelligence can answer questions such as: what happened; how many, how often, where did it happen; where
exactly is the problem; what actions are needed.
Business analytics answers the questions: why is this happening; what if these trends continue; what will happen next
(predict) and what is the best that can happen (optimize).
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Uses advanced analytics to
identify and propose the
“Next Best Offer” based on
Customer browsing and
buying patterns
Uses Cinematch,an advanced
analytics engine to make movie
recommendations based on
rental patterns
Pioneered the use of customer
segmentation and profitability
analysis to target and acquire
most profitable customers Uses web analytics and
customer loyalty program data
to target and drive business
through its most profitable
customers
Source – Competing on Analytics – The new science of
Winning. – Thomas H. Davenport and Jeanne G. Harris
Harvard Business School Press, 2007
Today’s market leaders have “cracked the code”
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The RBS Approach to Agile Analytics
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RBS on Analytics
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We want to build Smarter Organizations that deliver meaningful business results through secure, seamless context-aware experiences in a data driven
world
Our approach to Analytics is focused on building the organizational capability that
can sense changes, understand them, respond to them through business actions and refine these actions continuously to
deliver better business results
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ACTIONS: What do we do?
DATA & INFORMATION
MANAGEMENT
• Understanding the data ecosystem – Structured, Semi-structured and Unstructured data
• Creating and maintaining data as an asset
BUSINESS
INTELLIGENCE
• Aggregation of Information – primarily from Structured data within the enterprise
• Historical view aimed at enabling business planning and improving business performance
BUSINESS
ANALYTICS
• Correlation across internal and external data sources
• Identify patterns and causal relationships in historical and real-time data
ANALYTICS DRIVEN
ORGANIZATION
• Predict / optimize business decisions
• Translate insights into actions through operations
• Experiment, implement, measure and improve
DATA What data?
INFORMATION: What happened?
INSIGHTS: Why did it happen?
BETTER
BUSINESS
OUTCOMES
• Ability to sense and understand changes in marketplace
• Rapid decisions driven by Information
• Enable differentiated and seamless context aware experiences
Building a Smarter Organization
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The RBS approach for building an analytics driven
organization focuses on five key domains:
• A data foundation that provides an enterprise view of data, its types,
sources, latency and how it is understood and used (metadata) in the
organization
• An Information Design that describes how users will visualize, access,
utilize and act on the insights generated
• Analytics Capabilities which includes the foundational practices, skills
and approaches for driving agility into the organization
• An Analytics Operational Framework that helps establish where and how
analytics can be used within the enterprise and
• Active Business Ownership from Operational leaders within the
company who understand and use the insights generated to make
informed decisions
Building an analytics driven organization takes more than good technology
Building an Analytics Driven Organization
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Data Foundation
Information Design and
Visualization
Analytics Capabilities
Analytics Operational Framework
Active Business Sponsorship
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Building the Data Foundation
The Data Foundation defines:
1. How data is organized and used in the Enterprise (Semantics)
2. How data is persistently stored and accessed (Structure) and
3. How data is managed and understood (access, inquiry, replicated, updated etc.)
Real-time and Batch Queries (OLTP and OLAP)
Real-time queries
Data Warehouse, Data marts and Operational Data Stores
Real-time In-memory Databases
Enterprise Data Governance
Customer Financial Functional (HR, IT, Marketing,
Enterprise Risk Management etc.)
Operational (Product, Sales, Service,
Fraud Detection, Operations etc.)
Metadata, Data Modeling, Master Data Management
Enterprise Application
Integration (EAI)
Extract Transform
& Load (ETL)
Unstructured Data Loads (pattern matching, stop word filtering, backward
pointers etc.)
Real-time Integration
Structured Data Operational data from internal
and external data sources
Unstructured Data Digital data (audio, video),
text data (from social networks) etc.
Semi-Structured and Real-time Data
Data from real-time sensors, high volume
transactions etc.
Source: Enterprise Data (Internal), Federated Data (External), Syndicated Data (External) Volumes: Streams, High Volume, Low Volume Latency: What is the latency of the data – real-time, near real-time or batched
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Information Design
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User Specific Information
Context Information
Visualization and
Interaction
• What role do they play – consume content or create content?
• What are their preferences?
• What are the capabilities of the device they are using?
• What is the context of the interaction?
• Where is the interaction happening?
• What is the nature of the interaction? – support, transactional etc.
• What are the constraints? – Device capabilities, Location awareness, Network capabilities etc.
• How do we represent the information being consumed?
• How does the system accept inputs from the user?
• What does the interaction look like if there is no human involved?
• What are the requirements for data access? – Fire and Forget, Request/Response, Complex Event Processing etc.
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Analytics Capabilities - Governance
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Understand Data Domains Information Classification Model Governance Model
Information Privacy, Security, Regulatory and Compliance Rules and Guidelines
Enterprise Risk Management
Confidential
Privileged
Public
Customer
Finance
Product/Pricing
Operational
Operational
Personal Information – Name, Address, SSN, Credit Car # etc. Financial Performance Data etc.
Non-identifiable individual data Historical data Customer interaction data
Syndicated data Public data Historical data
• One Enterprise Governance Board for all confidential data, compliance and regulations
• Information and IT security policies are driven by the Enterprise Governance Board
• Business ownership and stewardship for data domains and Metadata
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Analytics Capabilities – Core Competencies
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Data Integration
Analytic Modeling
Agile Delivery
Visualization
Embedding Analytics
into Operations
Co-relate outcomes to facts and events and build models based on patterns discovered in these relationships
Implementing metrics, decision making
structures and a closed feedback loop to take advantage of insights
Rapid Prototyping, incremental delivery, built-in retrospectives and continuous improvement
Visualization and User Experience
design to present insights in
a meaningful way that
results in the desired action
The ability to integrate with, ingest, understand all types of data from internal and external sources
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Analytics Capabilities - Agile Analytics
Analytics Story Maps
User Stories
Analytics Epics
Analytics Personas
Analytics Solutions
Agile Delivery
Rendering and Visualization Data Ecosystem and relationships Information design Analytics Patterns Access and Integration Use and Implementation
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Analytics Capabilities - Reference Architecture
Visualization and User Interaction
Interaction Model – Fire-and-forger, Request-Response, Complex Event Processing (CEP)
Analytics Solutions – Social Analytics, Value Chain Performance Analytics, Customer Interaction Analytics etc.
Advanced Statistical Modeling
Quantitative Analysis Linear Programming Markov Chain, Monte Carlo
Methods
Regression Models Simulation
Real-time and Batch Queries (OLTP and OLAP) Real-time queries
Data Warehouse, Data marts and Operational Data Stores Real-time In-memory Databases
Enterprise Data Governance
Customer Financial Functional (HR, IT, Marketing, Enterprise Risk
Management etc.)
Operational (Product, Sales, Service, Fraud Detection,
Operations etc.)
Master Data Management, Distributed Map Reduce
Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)
Extract Transform & Load (ETL)
Unstructured Data Loads (pattern matching, stop word filtering,
backward pointers etc.)
Real-time Integration
Structured Data Operational data from internal and external data
sources
Unstructured Data Digital data (audio, video), text data (from
social networks) etc.
Semi-Structured and Real-time Data Data from real-time sensors, high volume
transactions etc.
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Analytics Capabilities - Workforce Model • 20% Specialized skills
• Data Scientists – Mix of statistical and quantitative skills (Left Brain) and pattern detection/matching skills (Right Brain)
• Product Owners – Ability to breakdown complex problems into product features and backlog that can be delivered incrementally
• Visualization and UX Designers – Creative and Design Thinking skills (Right Brain)
• 80% Delivery skills – Architects, Developers, Software Quality analysts etc.
• Mix of soft skills and technical skills, delivered a 10-20-70 learning model
• Formal and informal mentor-apprentice model
• Campus relationships with arts and science schools
• Industry-Academia interactions to drive new perspectives and to facilitate updates on new techniques
• Job rotations to drive cross-skilling and enforce knowledge management requirements
• Retrospectives at all levels of delivery and operations to drive experiential learning
• Formal and informal knowledge sharing sessions to drive collective learning
• Client-specific relevance maintained through single-point of contact for business-specific details
• Use of Social networking tools to establish informal knowledge and experience networks
Sustainable Workforce
Immersive Learning
Experience Management
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Shared Analytics Center On Site
Analytics Capabilities - Hybrid Delivery
Agile Analytics will require a hybrid delivery model that takes into account the data and privacy concerns and balancing with the need for agility and the scarcity of key skills
Private Data Privileged Public Data
Product Owners Data Scientists
Visualization and UX Designers
Operations Monitoring and Reporting
Analytics Solutions
Business Stewardship and Governance
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Managing a smarter business with Analytics
Analytics Operational Framework
Workforce
Analytics
Operational
Analytics
Customer
Analytics
Financial
Analytics
• We help businesses integrate analytics with
the key metrics that are tracked on an organization’s Balanced Scorecard1
• This framework:
• Defines and measures key business performance metrics across all four quadrants of the balanced scorecard
• Synthesizes findings and delivers insights to business leaders
• Performs analysis on metrics including variation and root cause analysis
• Implements a closed loop feedback mechanism that helps understand results and refine the insights and actions through agile delivery
1 Kaplan, R. S. and D. P. Norton. 1992. The balanced scorecard - Measures that drive performance. Harvard Business Review (January-February): 71-79.
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Customer Analytics Operational Analytics Financial Analytics Workforce Analytics
Marketing Sales Supply Chain
CUSTOMER
ANALYTICS
Help determine Next Best Action or Next Best Offer
CUSTOMER
INTERACTION
ANALYTICS
Improve Customer Experience and reduce cost of service
SOCIAL ANALYTICS
Drive brand loyalty and service recovery actions based on sentiment analysis on social media
CUSTOMER
INTELLIGENCE
Improve customer share of wallet through target marketing
MARKET
INTELLIGENCE
Provide insights into market trends and customer behavior
MARKETING
EFFECTIVENESS
Drive returns from better marketing spend allocation
PRICING ANALYTICS
Provide price / discount insights for specific sales
SALES FORCE
ALLOCATION
Drive sales coverage across addressable segments
SALES
EFFECTIVENESS
Enable effectiveness of sales pursuit and conversion
SALES
COMPENSATION
Design and track sales compensation for optimization
PRODUCT SALES
PERFORMANCE
Monitor sales performance by product / solution
DEMAND-SUPPLY
PLANNING
Reduce demand-supply mismatch through better forecasting
INVENTORY
OPTIMIZATION
Reduce own and channel inventory costs
PROCUREMENT
ANALYTICS
Drive savings from spend forecasting and consolidation
FINANCIAL
REPORTING &
ANALYTICS
(Budget and forecasting, P&L / Balance Sheet review)
COMPLIANCE & RISK
Continuous monitoring, better audit sampling to test controls and enable revenue hedging
CUSTOMER
PROFITABILITY
Continuous monitoring and optimizing of customer and product profitability
WORKFORCE
OPTIMIZATION
Allocation / matching of workforce for efficient usage
ATTRITION
MODELING
Identify attrition propensity based on characteristics & drivers
Examples of Analytics in a Smarter Business
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Determining the “Next Best Action” for a customer
An Example
Behavioral data (S, F,E) • Transactions
• Payment history • Service history • Credit history
Descriptive Data (S, E) • Attributes
• Characteristics • Self-declared info • (Geo)demographics
Attitudinal data (U, E, P) • Opinions
• Preferences • Needs & Desires • Sentiment
Interaction data (SS, E) • E-Mail / chat transcripts • Call center notes
• Web Click-streams • In person dialogues
S –Structured U – Unstructured SS – Semi Structured F – Federated P – Public E - Enterprise
Historical Analysis Correlation of data Pattern recognition
MCMC Methods Regression Analysis Pattern Matching
Business Intelligence What do our customers say they want? What are the major life events for the customer? How do customers interact with the organization?
Business Analytics What is the customer’s Propensity to buy? What are the indicators of customer retention/attrition? What is the Customer Profitability? What is the Product Profitability?
Device data (U, P) • Location
• Camera • Microphone • Multi-touch • Sensors
UX Visualization
CEP Scoring
Business Analytics Next Best Action Next Best Offer Customer Management Action Service Recovery
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• Analytics enable business
agility
• Building an analytics driven
organization requires a
comprehensive set of
capabilities
• It's a huge waste without
business and operational buy-in
• RBS has the IP and experience
to help you get there
Conclusion
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