How are you creating stability in a time of turbulence?

Question

Last week Alteryx CEO & Founder @dstoecker1 published a great Forbes piece about the opportunity we, the global analytics community, have to solve complex business and societal challenges — especially during times of stress.

“In the context of a global pandemic, the rules of the game have changed and businesses are suddenly asked to produce the same output with broken operations, limited resources and less clarity on what our world will look like in the next week, let alone the next month, quarter or year. In turbulent times, good information, good data and the capacity to derive good decisions with analytics are more critical than ever.”

Read the article in its entirety on Forbes.

Right now, the power to solve new challenges, both big and small, is at your fingertips. Whether you’ve been tasked to reevaluate flight schedules, optimize hospital capacities, or simply want to maximize your personal ‘social distancing’ strategy (& avoid this situation) — we’d love to hear from you!

How are you using your analytics skills to create stability, either for your business, industry, or in your personal life?

Please reply to this thread to share your thoughts. We look forward to the discussion!

Tagging in a few ACEs (and @NickJ & @ShaanM) to get the conversation going:

@Joe_Lipski, @andyuttley, @SeanAdams, @MarqueeCrew, @estherb47 -- What are you thinking about these days?

llytle · Answer

Wow - thanks for opening the discussion on this item.

One of the key things that come to mind is something that @NickJ  mentioned in his post. The move to predictive analytics.  As we begin to see many of these various businesses come back from this moment, a strategy to go-forward will be a central theme in the minds of many of our organizational leaders.

Analytics - both prescriptive and descriptive will play a central role in those conversations.  On key thought for me is something that was brought to light in a post @LDuane made about data literacy.

I work with high school/college students in my community and see the need to aid the future generations in development a mindset around data literacy, data awareness, and data-driven decision making.

Because, to move the various organizations and the world at large forward, there will be an increase demand to move forward with data-driven strategies.

Thanks @LeahK for opening up this conversation.  I can also imagine that Alteryx For Good platform can be leveraged to empower organizations around the world to move forward from via strategic and analytical focused conversations.

LOVE being a part of this community and looking forward to seeing the power of the Alteryx Community in the effort to help move the world forward.

LeahK · Answer

This is great @andyuttley. I'm just reflecting on how something like this could have been leveraged to save a March Madness contest a few of our Solutions Engineers had put a lot of work into.  The whole thing was dependent on the actual results of the March Madness tournament, which like football in the UK, was cancelled. Side note... I thought the premier league was simply postponed? It would be such a shame for Liverpool to miss out on the title.

And @NickJ -- your perspective on how governments might be able to approach a "rationing" strategy is fascinating. I'm really hoping to hear from customers in the public sector on how they are or are planning to address these challenges.

This whole conversation really got me thinking about what now seem like endless opportunities to solve practical problems, things that I literally have spent no time thinking about until now... and that really only boil up to the surface during times of crisis.

I am eagerly waiting to hear what others are thinking about!

Goodbye Netflix, Hello Community

SamJHolmes · Answer

Nice to see Alteryx is helping your mates to stay sane Andy!