A Report On The Business Mission Program

In order to be an effective analytical competitor, Davenport and Harris (2007) assert that firms must meet certain prerequisites. Those prerequisites are at least a moderate amount of quality data about the type of business that analytics will support, hardware and software, the commitment of managers to develop analytics, and executive sponsorship (Davenport and Harris, 2007, p.16). Analytics is about extrapolating new information and

In today’s companies, the analytics software plays the important role and guides the future activities to a great extent.

I worked at the Center for Human Options Inc. in White Plains. From this experience, I gained networking skills to prepare me for college. I am president of the Robotics club and instruct students in coding the mechanics of robots. Moreover, I am president of Mission Outreach, an organization that helps the unfortunate people by providing them with donations. I have been in these clubs since freshman year of high school. Moreover, I am an active participant in the following clubs: Spanish club, Mock Trial, and Power Squad for Charity. I was awarded first honor roll and Principal's List for the past four years at my high school. Additionally, I received the following awards: the National Honor Society Award, the National Science Honor Society

An event that challenged my way of thinking this past year was when I went on a service-oriented missions trip to Chicago this past summer with my church. The week-long trip proved to be a challenging time, both mentally and physically, and it required me to think outside the box on different occasions in order to solve problems. I went on the trip with 19 other students from my church after we were chosen from among all the people in our youth group. We were seen as the leaders in our church’s youth group, and this missions trip was to teach us how to live out our faith in God and prepare us to lead our peers.

As soon as word of the camp flood spread, the road to the church was trafficked with hundreds of people bringing food, warm socks, clothes, toiletries, blankets, and everything necessary for basic survival. One important fact to note about Cowen, West Virginia is that the residents live under the poverty line, and the nearest gas station is forty minutes away. Yet, families told the counselors that they cleared out their trailers and their houses of all the blankets they could find to give us everything they had. Dollar stores stayed open two hours later than normal for a two-hour radius around the church so people could bring everything they could afford.

2. Uniqueness - There is no single path to follow to become an analytic competitor, and the way every company uses analytics is unique to its strategy and market position. Accenture 's use of analytics has always been unique to acquire the market position. Accenture, in telecommunication industry uses bundle

My organization Penske Truck Leasing has been experiencing a sharp decline in the revenue generated from its full service leasing. Results of initial sales analysis concluded that the inflow of the new customers for full service leasing has been growing steadily; thus to increase revenue, the focus needs to be on the renewals for the existing customers. The company realizes that a lack of validated customer loyalty drivers prevents effective focus on customer retention and thus directly affects profitability. Challenges with data availability and business metrics have made attempts to measure and diagnose our service delivery and customer experience, both, difficult and inconclusive. In order to address this challenge, the organization has launched an initiative to build a customer analytics system that can achieve a single view of customer experience and make decisions about how best to acquire and retain customers, recognize high-value customers and proactively interact with them. I have been identified as the lead architect for the BI and analytics team that is going to implement this project.

I always remember going to church with my mom and brothers; my Dad is not member of the church and he disagreed with almost everything, specially serving a mission. Actually he said to us that if we even think about going on a mission he will divorce my mom.

It was agreed that analytics needed to be a standalone campaign. Whereas, ‘strengthening and defending the core’ could be communicated in several different approached, which is where experience, expertise and values were formed.

Within the Four Pillars of Analytical Competition as described by Davenport and Harris (2007), TMNAS has varying degrees of success as well as failure. The authors describe these pillars as pivotal to ability of any organization to successfully develop in to analytical competitors. The first of these pillars is labeled Support of Strategic, Distinctive Capability (p. 24). Although TMNAS has identified its strategic capability as delivering “…efficiencies and cost savings through the streamlining of processes…” (Overview 2015), it has been not examined as a viable capability to leverage in terms of Competitive Analytics. Furthermore, given the distinct nature of TMNAS, it stands to reason that the organization may elect to take a back seat to the group companies as far as identifying a strategic capability. In examining the company’s position as a services organization, it may behoove the company to play a support role to the group companies and their front office functions in fostering the identification of strategic and distinctive capabilities. Additionally, it could fall on the members of TMNAS IT to support the spread of competitive analytics within each of its sister companies. TMNAS has not contributed to or fostered this step on the road to analytics within the group companies therefore its position within this pillar of analytics competition requires more attention and resources.

Currently, Vygon USA is not in a strong position to compete on analytics. Our ability to use data and information we have access to as a company is at the most basic level. We have our IT manager send out a monthly standard report he puts together including sales for that month, products sold, etc. It is broken down into buckets of information, that as a whole is good for an individual just wanting to know how much of each product we sold or what the sales per product group were for the month. As a competitive advantage the basic monthly report is not enough for me or anyone else to use for a strategic plan.

Strategy consultants tackle a wide array of management issues and questions, all in the name of increasing efficiency. Historically this job has not involved the level of business analytics that it utilizes today, but thanks to the developments in technology, it has become a cornerstone in the profession. The ability of modern computing systems to absorb and account for the variables present in a human oriented working space has enabled vast improvements in efficiency. This is where the skillset of business analytics has come into play. Being able to evaluate and understand the information being provided from those systems is necessary to make proper advising decisions.

Depending on how much or how little a company has of these attributes defines what stage a company is competing on. There are 5 stages; analytically impaired, localized analytics, analytical aspirations, analytical companies, and analytical competitors (Davenport & Harris, 2007). The above statement, and statement soon to follow, from the CEO indicate the company is headed towards a stage 2 or 3 competitor, but has been a stage 1 for a very long time. It is very easy to turn a blind eye on analytics if the main goal is to acquire as much geographic area as

Stage 2 - These organizations have implemented localized analytic solutions with some data elements and reporting, but they lack the big picture view of implementing enterprise-wide analytics activities. There are department specific silos of data and reports to meet functional needs.

Part 2. How Business Analytics can be used to gain advantage in a competitive marketplace