Data Storytelling for Disruptors

Disruptive innovations have become common in these 'postnormal' times. Organisations that seek to be disruptive are fusing big data analytics with storytelling to nurture better business cultures. Narratives and data stories encourage participation in innovation. We share our recent experience and insights into data storytelling and disruptive innovation.

Fighting failure with transparency

A review of how transparency in 2014 may help address some of the causes of significant failure and incidents of fraud in 2013.

In the Anticipate Change community we dig around in emerging issues relevant to those adopting business intelligence. This post is a summary of some of the lessons learned in 2013, which we hope leads to better decision making in 2014. The focus is on failures and fraud that we noticed around the world, emphasising the need for transparency about those individuals and organisations holding power over the public.

Decisions in the Age of Abundant Data

A summary of bite-sized insights and views about decision making from fresh articles around the web.

Over the last several months at Cause Analytics we have been scouting the web to bring you some helpful articles from experts in business intelligence. Today, our team will summarise several insights we have collected in our Google+ community in order to save you time and help your organisation with decision making.

You probably know of the debate between speedy decisions based on intuition versus slower decisions that draw upon evidence and rational deliberation. It's a complex debate because both sides have a role to play in various contexts, but in the 'Age of Abundant Data', business intelligence can aid you on your quest for faster results. As analytics and algorithms increasingly offer practical predictions, executives and managers will be able to act upon these predictions to communicate decisions reflexively, and perhaps, intuitively.