Seven years ago, Harvard Business Review called data science “the sexiest job of the 21st century.” It’s even sexier today, judging by the 55 percent increase in data scientist job postings between June 2017 and June 2019, with annual salaries averaging $121,000. This demand reflects the growing amount of data that organizations collect and source…

Using data to improve operations seems like a simple idea. But many organizations struggle to achieve this goal because they have trouble clearly understanding how operations perform when their data is scattered across multiple systems. Even when these systems have reporting built into them, their closed and static nature makes it difficult to find the…