STOP data projects, decision automation or worrying about data too much

🛑STOP data projects, decision automation or worrying about data too much. As the Data and Analytics leader, those are not your first problems to solve.

The biggest challenges of Data and Analytics leaders are not lack of vision or ambition. It is not that they don't know #data technology or how to hire top talents. It is not that their teams cannot build hundreds of thousands of reports and dashboards!

The biggest challenge for data and analytics leaders…

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Do you want to guess? 👇

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💥Alignment!

YES! Between multiple teams, from IT, business, operation and their teams. Creating alignment between teams requires common goals, standardization, and common language.

Setting the goal that everybody agrees is more of the politics and vision of the leader, what about standardization and common language?

To be able to do that, the data and analytics leader cannot look at the data. They need to shift their view from data to decisions, and by decision, I mean “business decisions”. Once that's done, the rest is easy.

🚀Leaders of data and analytics should use open standard and vendor-neutral language to build alignment between teams within different groups. Using Decision Model and Notation enables leaders #CDO #CDAO to create the blueprint for communication with a common language:
* Where to start
* Who is going to be involved
* How is that going to impact the business
* What is the exact step-by-step plan to get there

Not only that! The blueprint of decisions will bring standardization to groups and teams. They will be used as the formal documentation of how they make decisions every day.

💣This is where the magic happens… Those standardized documents with DMN Conformance Level 3 (CL3) will be the live specification of decisions. They can be used in various data scenarios for execution, such as #DecisionAutomation or augmentation, building #DataProduct, #DataQuality, #DataTransformation, #Insight and #Dashboard, building #AI products, and more.

Additionally, these blueprints are your decision models. They serve as the foundation for applying #DecisionIntelligence in your organization.

Read more on DMN at https://lnkd.in/gN6JTn-q 👇

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Published August 8th, 2025 at 07:30 am