Creativity is a critical skill in any context. We need more creativity in our own data and analytics programs, but we also being asked to use data and analytics to drive creativity throughout our organization. This short session will share some best practices about how to combine creativity with data and analytics.

This presentation describes how data and analytic leaders can bolster their organization's performance measurement capabilities and shows how to communicate the business value that good metrics create. How can your organization move beyond descriptive metrics to become more diagnostic, predictive, and prescriptive? How can we use AI, Data Science, and IoT to create more precise and accurate systems of measurement?

We talk about data-driven decisions, but is that really what we want? Combining survey data with broader research in behavioral psychology, this session will provide an overview of how decisions are viewed within organizations, and how they can be improved using a combination of hard data and soft nudges.

Gartner's self-assessment tool for data and analytics maturity has been taken by over 2,000 organizations. This session will look at some of the findings and provide best practices in how you can use the IT Score for data and analytics to improve your maturity. (This session will be helpful for organizations irrespective of whether they have already taken the assessment.)