1. How are You Making your Business decisions?
Tony Sulpizio

2. Summary About Me Who is an authentic leader? What drives decisions?
When does Change take place?
Where can data analytics help?
Why is this important?
How does this all work?

3. About Me

4. Tony Grew up in Washington State 10 years active Submarine Service
Currently working for DoD, 12 years
MBA-Project Management, 2014
MS-Data Analytics, 2016
Illuminated Data Solutions

5. Who is an authentic leader?

6. Authentic Leadership Three focus areas Organization Employees
Self Awareness

7. What Drives Decisions?

8. Decisions, Decisions Culture Industry Technology Employees
Business Needs
Leading Change

9. When does change take place?

10. Initiators of Change (+)
Fostered Through:
Innovation
New Knowledge
Willingness to Change
See the need, take the lead

11. Initiators of Change (-)
Forced Through
Company Set Backs
Management Turnover
Catastrophe*

12. Where can data analytics help?

13. What is Data Analytics?
Scientific methods for leveraging existing data to help with the current and future decision-making framework.
Actionable Insights
See the past, present and future
The third leg in Decision-Making
Show us what we are not seeing
Use Wal-Mart Case Study
Identify this as our new approach for using data analytics to improve performance, support decision making or provide meaningful and actionable insight to existing processes.

14. Why is this important?

15. Importance
What are the effects of data analytics on the decision-making process?
What could happen if do not use data analytics?
Risks?

16. How does this all work?

17. Overview We have leaders We have decisions We have information
We need understanding
We need change
We need to take action

18. Decision-Making
Based on what we have learnt to this point, we have a clear direction to take when decisions need to be made.