Why Is the Quota Setting Process Important?
A recent Alexander Group survey showed 59 percent of participants reported quota setting as the top challenge among over 20 choices for their sales compensation program. Accenture research tells us that about 90 percent of companies leverage…
Purposeful Persona Building: Design Thinking Part 2
Remember our friend Empathy from the previous article? Well, now that you've interviewed, observed, and worked alongside your end-users and fully understand what it means to walk in their shoes, it’s time to leverage that new knowledge.
You’ve…
Why an Incentive Compensation Health Check Matters
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How Pitney Bowes’ New Data Practice Helps Our Clients Succeed
Yesterday, Ironside's partner Pitney Bowes announced that they are forming a new data practice built to accelerate businesses' digital transformation initiatives. This practice will reach across the whole company to accomplish the goal of helping…
Analytics End User Adoption: Rethinking Our Engagement Strategy
In the last few weeks, I’ve spoken with three different clients who are struggling with the issue of end user adoption. Each described a routine set of activities, either completed or in process, that you would expect to see in a thoughtful…
Building Your Data & Analytics Roadmap One Use Case at a Time
IT and business leaders share a common goal – to leverage the data available to them in order to make more informed business decisions. The first step to achieving that goal is to create a data & analytics roadmap, a task many companies…
The CIO and Analytics Strategy: Ironside’s Take
CIO and IDG released the 2017 State of the CIO report this week. Their findings are useful not just for the CIO role in general but also for exploring the connection between the CIO and analytics initiatives. Looking at the report through the…
Understanding Data Governance: Tools, Documents, Processes, and People
Data governance is a common need across organizations, and can be a very challenging subject to tackle. Understanding data governance's components, what good governance looks like, and the drivers behind adopting it is essential to creating…
3 Reasons Your Data & Analytics Roadmap Isn’t Helping You Reach Your Goals
Creating a data and analytics roadmap is an important first step in helping your organization utilize data to achieve growth, understanding, and action. But often we hear from clients that their roadmap isn't leading them to their desired destination.…
Take a Value Based Approach to Your Analytics Platform Migration
Analytics platform migrations and upgrades are among Ironside's core competencies. We’ve been doing them since our inception, and we do a lot of them.
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