Unlocking the Power of Data


Our approach ensures the proper application of Data Analytics tools, and the effective alignment with key business needs and drivers.


From Business Objectives to Effectivection:

    • Addressing key business and customer demands

    • Integrating workforce and SME knowledge along with
      data-powered insights

    • Collaborative, structured efforts cutting across organizational boundaries

    • Grounded on the reality of the current situation and operations


Clarify Objectives

▸ Alignment to higher-level goals

▸ Stakeholders interview

▸ Input-Process-Output diagram

▸ Target goals


Identify the Team


▸ Stakeholder analysis

▸ Data sources and gatekeepers

▸ Team makeup


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Explore the Data


▸ Histograms, Individual value plots, Summary Statistics,

Box and whisker plots, Time series plots, Control Charts

▸ Scatter plots, Scatter matrices, Correlation

▸ Principal Component Analysis, Clustering


Formulate Models and Hypotheses


▸ Simple and Multiple Linear Regression

▸ Overfitting, Model Evaluation, and Variable Selection

▸ Classification vs Regression – Logistic Regression

▸ Training, validation and test data sets

▸ Trees for Classification and Regression (CART)

▸ Ensemble methods. Bootstrapping, Boosted Trees, Random Forest

▸ Neural Networks


Experiment


▸ Design of Experiments

▸ Screening, modeling, and response surface designs

▸ Custom Designs


Understand the Process

▸ Process maps

▸ Cascading IPO

▸ Variable Influence Diagram



Identify, collect, structure
and clean the Data


▸ Data elements selection from process knowledge

▸ Discrete and continuous data. Time series data

▸ Standard data table format

▸ File imports

▸ Database connections and operations

▸ Sorting, filtering, grouping, stacking and unstacking data

▸ Missing values and imputation

▸ Data cleansing

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Identify and select
the appropriate Action


▸ Summary of key findings

▸ Identification of possible options

▸ Selection: Impact-Effort, Decision Matrix, Pugh Matrix



Iterate for an agile Implementation


▸ Future State characterization

▸ Stakeholder analysis

▸ Steps to Future State

▸ Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) for implementation

▸ Ongoing result evaluation and analysis