'Landing Analytics' - A Blueprint for Success

I love my job. No, I really do. Why? Because I have a burning ambition to make a difference to the world. I get up every day and strive to add value. I want to excite and inspire folk on what can be achieved with analytics. It’s a mindset thing – it really is. So where did mine come from? 20 years in the Police – personal experience and development that you can’t buy – you live it. Resilience, stoicism, adaptability, passion – all required to improve a service that faces both strategic and tactical adversity on an hourly basis.

And boy our public sector and healthcare colleagues around the world are facing a significant suite of challenges. Real term cuts combined with an increase in complex demand that pushes capacity and capability to the limit. It also shines a light on prioritisation and risk management – who and what do we focus on – can’t do everything right? It pushes an organisation into a reactive spin and many become stuck in a cycle of firefighting and stop the important proactive and preventative work. This is not sustainable. Public outcomes suffer, colleagues in the service suffer – improvement slows or stops.

However; history shows us that some of the greatest adversity may seem insurmountable, but the obstacles become a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. What stands in the way is the way. It is how we respond to obstacles is what defines us. Obstacles don’t inhibit success, they create it. A mindset thing.

So, I took that approach when I worked at Avon ad Somerset Police. I realised that data and analytics was the golden thread to improving a police force that was going backwards. However; it was not just the technology that was important – a juxtaposition of factors need to come together to make a successful transformation. You need to create a blueprint, a secret sauce that excites and disrupts traditional thinking. That is what I did. I am now going to share it.

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