An Analytics Center of Excellence empowers business teams to meet their own data needs by changing the role of IT from developer to facilitator. The reality, however, is that IT needs be both a facilitator and a developer.
Published at: https://www.eckerson.com/articles/analytics-center-of-excellence-part-i-how-to-shape-the-organization

Analytics Center of Excellence Part I: How to Shape the Organization - Audio Blog

Stephanie Woener reads this MIT CISR research briefing from December 2005, which was authored by Jeanne Ross. See the text version and related content at https://cisr.mit.edu/publication/2005_12_3C_OperatingModels.

Abstract: Most companies try to maximize value from IT investments by aligning IT and IT-enabled business processes with business strategy. But strategy rarely offers sufficiently clear direction for development of stable IT and business process capabilities. To make IT a proactive rather than reactive force in creating business value, companies should define an operating model. An operating model specifies the necessary level of business process integration and standardization for the company, defining critical IT and business process capabilities. This briefing explores how a company’s operating model guides IT investment and enhances business agility.

Forget Strategy: Focus IT on Your Operating Model

In a world heavily influenced by technology and evolving views on leadership and employee experience, people practice by and large, is still founded on the so-called 'Ulrich HR operating model' that was put forward in the 90s. Is it finally time to consider HR's next top operating model? 

Join Nigel Cassidy and this month’s guests: Dave Ulrich, University of Michigan - Ross School of Business, Natalie Shiels, Chief People Officer at Mosaic Group, and Perry Timms, founder of People and Transformational HR, as we explore what approach to HR would be fit-for-purpose in the rapidly changing business environment of today and the future.

Learn more about current practice, future models and successful transformations with our latest article series on HR operating models:
www.cipd.org/en/views-and-insights/thought-leadership/insight/hr-models/

Podcast 207: HR's next top operating model

This week, Shen speaks with James Crosby, co-founder and CEO of data management provider Fencore. They discuss the evolutionary nature of the buy side’s approach to technology platforms and data and how it has come full circle. 

9:30 – James joins, and we discuss the buy-side operating model
14:30 – How it has evolved
16:30 – Are we repeating old mistakes, and why that’s a problem
21:00 – How should firms put an EDM in place
23:30 – A future-proof model
26:00 – What is a good organizational operating model

Episode 292: Fencore’s James Crosby

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