IDG Contributor Network: The new enterprise analytics model

I started designing and working in Centers of Excellence (COEs) over a decade ago. At that time they represented the evolution of the everyone-does-everything model of organizational design, aiming directly at duplicate work efforts, vague accountability and turf wars.I was particularly focused on the Analytics Center of Excellence, an organizational construct larger companies were forming to centralize key reporting, predictive and data skills. It was a shared service model relying on a&nb