{"id":185,"date":"2016-04-11T06:07:47","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T06:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/d3mlabs.de\/?p=185"},"modified":"2023-02-01T10:59:10","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T10:59:10","slug":"test-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/d3mlabs.de\/?p=185","title":{"rendered":"Why should you adopt data-driven decision making?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elizabeth Press<\/a>The goal is to teach you how to transform data into insights that will help you run your business, make decisions and manage your team.\u00a0Here’s her tips for you:<\/p>\n

.Data-driven management improves your „soft skills“: A data-driven approach\u00a0to solving problems and\u00a0leading discourse\u00a0enhances the tenor of your communication and teamwork, in addition to improving hard performance metrics such as revenue and margin.\u00a0Data and evidence-based brainstorming can also help\u00a0turn creative ideas into business transformation.<\/a>\u00a0The reason why I am so excited about guiding entrepreneurs along their data-driven journey is that these techniques are important for people who need to articulate innovative ideas to investors, customers, partners and others in their ecosystem while creating super motivated teams.<\/p>\n

These techniques are important for people who need to articulate innovative ideas to investors, customers, partners and others<\/em><\/p>\n

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  1. You gain accountability:\u00a0Using specified metrics and analytical methods at key points in your decision processes will improve your accountability. Sentiment from experts across the globe, including\u00a0The\u00a0Harvard Business Review\u00a0in their article\u00a0Big Data: The Management Revolution<\/a>, point to improved decision making through data. Even if your decision turns out to be sub-optimal, you will be able to explain your actions in a logical and concise manner and understand where you need to improve.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Even if your decision turns out to be sub-optimal, you will be able to explain your actions in a logical and concise manner and understand where you need to improve.<\/em><\/p>\n

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    1. Measurable results:\u00a0Setting goals and measuring how your performance benefits your organization’s strategy and tactical goals will allow you to\u00a0communicate your successes\u00a0and your\u00a0prioritized areas of improvement\u00a0through evidence-based reasoning. The city of Houston, Texas in the US has a\u00a0Performance Insight<\/a>portal to communicate their progress and provide transparency regarding strategic priorities.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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      1. Learn\u00a0and\u00a0adopt\u00a0positive behavior:\u00a0Extracting insights from your performance data will help you understand why your decisions were great or not and enable you to improve. Houston’s mayor Annise Parker says that her use of data created a culture of continuous improvement.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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        1. Improved work environment: Gamification\u00a0is one data-driven strategy for engaging and motivating employees while increasing transparency, as described in\u00a0CIO magazine. An additional benefit of using data is that a fact-based tone of discussion helps teams work on problems with minimal personal or negatively emotionally charged conversation.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          Please email Elizabeth.Press@d3mlabs.com if you are curious how\u00a0D3M Labs can help you become more data-driven in your decisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

          Data-driven management improves your „soft skills“: A data-driven approach\u00a0to solving problems and\u00a0leading discourse\u00a0enhances the tenor of your communication and teamwork, in addition to improving hard performance metrics such as revenue and margin.\u00a0Data and evidence-based brainstorming can also help turn creative ideas into business transformation. Using specified metrics and analytical methods at key points in your decision processes will improve your accountability. Even if your decision turns out to be sub-optimal, you will be able to explain your actions in a logical and concise manner and understand where you need to improve. \u00a0Setting goals and measuring how your performance benefits your organization’s strategy and tactical goals will allow you to\u00a0communicate your successes\u00a0and your\u00a0prioritized areas of improvement\u00a0through evidence-based reasoning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-data-leadership","category-strategy","wpcat-10-id","wpcat-8-id"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/d3mlabs.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/d3mlabs.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/d3mlabs.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d3mlabs.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d3mlabs.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/d3mlabs.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":877,"href":"https:\/\/d3mlabs.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions\/877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d3mlabs.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/d3mlabs.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d3mlabs.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d3mlabs.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}