BUSINESS ANALYTICS
The power of Big Data lies in uncovering actionable and profitable insights by combining company‑internal data with public social media and purchased databases and applying sophisticated analytical machine learning technology.
Businesses are generating vast amounts of proprietary data from their online transaction, CRM, Salesforce management, lead gen, billing and other systems. Typically, they also purchase data about non-customers from vendors such as D&B, Equifax, and InfoUSA, which is often outdated and increasingly inferior to freely minable internet data. Vast amounts of unstructured, self-reported, real-time data can now be scraped from Social Media sources such as Linked-in, Facebook, Twitter, etc.
Facing this data avalanche, many companies try to do too much and are overwhelmed with data quality and analytical approach challenges, dooming potentially high ROI projects. We believe that there is a tremendous opportunity for business to deepen customer relationships, improve sales success, reduce churn, optimize pricing, etc. Even very small improvements in these ratios along the “sales funnel” have a tremendous impact on operating performance.
LEVERAGE THE DATA
Successful business analytics requires an unusual combination of skills and experience that is hard to assemble for most organizations:
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Industry experience at a senior executive level
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Subject matter expertise from real-world, specific experience
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Data analysis skills at a world class technical level with practical creativity and problem solving skills developed over decades of consulting
We are not data miners. We are highly skilled, experienced executives, data scientists and consultants who have a unique ability to drive fast-paced, highly hypothesis and data-driven projects with quick and measurable financial results.
THE APPROACH
1. Organize internal data for analysis. While this is hard to do retroactively, most large companies generate enough data in a month or two, that if this data is organized and captured properly, powerful models can be built upon that data.
2. Combine all data sources. The real power of Big Data and Business Analytics lies in combining the three main sources of data: Internal Proprietary, Purchased Public and Social Media / Internet. Each has it’s own strengths and weaknesses and they can never be perfectly matched, but powerful insight can be derived from their interactions.
3. Build Machine Learning Model with clear ROI. Any Business Analytics effort should have a clear and realistic ROI objective that is within the company’s ability to execute. There are usually more opportunities than a company’s ability to execute them. We advise our clients to not pick the “sexiest”, but rather the most executable machine learning projects.
STAFF AUGMENTATION
Some clients require ongoing, "light-touch" analytical support to make important initiatives work. Because we partner with our client to achieve lasting success, we often supplement client resources for analytically intensive tasks in a low-cost onshore / offshore model.
MMG Staff Augmentation supplements client resources for analytically intensive tasks. Frequently this involves continued support of completed consulting projects to ensure sustained results. Our model transparently combines Onshore and Offshore resources, our intellectual property, as well as proprietary software tools.
Typical services we perform include:
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Data Analysis
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Project Support / PMO
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Implementation Support
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Project Impact Monitoring and Tracking
OTHER SERVICES
We typically partner with clients to deliver earnings improvements of 20-30% over a nine months time frame. Our track record is unmatched in the consulting industry: 30 years and over 3,000 projects around the globe that have delivered documented performance improvements of well over 20%.
