Data Analytics and Machine Learning: Driving Speed to Insight

No question about it: Data-driven organizations are clearly on to something. Such organizations are three times more likely to report significant improvement in decision making, according to a PwC Global Data & Analytics survey, which polled 1,135 executives. Research by MIT's Center for Digital Business uncovered similar results in interviews with executives at 330 North American businesses. "The more companies characterized themselves as data-driven, the better they performed on objective measures of financial and operational results," MIT's Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson reported in Harvard Business Review. So what do analytics leaders--and their data-driven initiatives--need to succeed?