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Kurt Schlegel
VP Analyst
Kurt Schlegel is a Research Vice President at Gartner, studying how organizations apply analytic capabilities to improve performance and optimize decision making.
Roles and responsibility
Director of Business Intelligence & Analytics
Previous experience
Mr. Schlegel has been covering the data and analytics space since 2003. During that time, he has served in various roles, including global conference chair, research community leader, agenda manager and lead author of the Magic Quadrant, Hype Cycle and Predicts reports. Key themes of his research include:
1) The emergence of data discovery as a self-service alternative to traditional business intelligence architectures
2) Striking a balance between a centralized and decentralized organizational model for business analytics
3) Making data a key part of your organization's business model with customer-facing analytics
4) Using big data to create more precise analytical systems of measurement and classification
5) Right-sized approaches to BI and analytics for midmarket companies
Professional background
Meta Group
Program Director
Areas of coverage
Data and Analytics Leaders
Analytics, BI and Data Science Solutions
Data and Analytics Programs and Practices
Education
M.S., Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
B.S., Industrial Management, Carnegie Mellon University
Top Issues That I Help Clients Address
1Build the business case for analytics
2Craft a strategy for analytics
3Design the right organizational model for analytics
4Create a performance metrics framework
5Analytic Best Practices