INSIGHT PATTERN ANALYZER

When facts aren't clear and inferences and intuition aren't enough...

Ask yourself this: Which business objective would you rather have?

1. "More sales", or
2. "More sales of products X, Y and Z to customers [meeting these criteria] at [these times of year] with orders that look like [this]".

Clearly, choice (b) is more actionable, measurable and therefore more achievable. However, while most executives and managers can identify the four or five major drivers of their business, few can identify the combinations of drivers that produce the best or worst outcomes. Development of those kinds of combinations involves sophisticated pattern analysis.

Why Pattern Analysis? Pattern analysis gives managers the insight necessary to identify opportunities to improve enterprise performance e.g., sales, profitability, customer satisfaction, employee turnover, order fulfillment, etc. Patterns provide insight to drive specific behaviors (like targeting customers in the example above) or alerting decision-makers when undesirable events are looming. Sometimes, even the best data doesn’t divulge obvious answers; sheer scale and complexity can defeat both people and regular systems.

What is Pattern Analysis? Patterns are statistical relationships between one or more causes and one or more effects. In most organizations, patterns are found most often by sensing or guessing about those relationships. Yet, many patterns that most affect profitability or performance are not simple; they usually involve subtle relationships between many variables and involve more data than an executive can balance in his/her head.

Executive Intelligence offers a Uniquely Objective Tool: Unlike other pattern finding engines, our tool needs no seed argument, no hypothesis, no dependent variables: in fact they’re not allowed! It is not a ‘hunch validator’ - it can find patterns you could likely not even suspect. Users can of course specify both the frequency and statistical confidence parameters (we also quickly identify and eliminate ‘background noise’ so as to enhance the value of the findings). The patterns we uncover are reported as “if-then” statements that can be sorted on any particular variable. Guesswork and hunches give way to accuracy and insight.

Insight Pattern Analyzer: "For answers to expensive questions". Contact us to discuss how our service could help you.