Analytics in the Philippines 2020

The year 2020 used to sound like it was so far off in the future.

Yet, there it is on the calendar… just a little more then 2.5 years away.

2017 is the fifth year of my original five year plan for DMAIPH.

Now I’m starting to think about the next big strategic plan and for this iteration I’m gonna work with a 2.5 year plan. Because things are evolving so quickly when it comes to analytics in the Philippines.

For the rest of 2017 the big goal is to evolve our public and in-house training options with our partners at Ariva Events Management and the Rock Stars of Data.

At the same time we will work in solidifying several key business partnerships with the Analytics Council, APEC Project DARE, BASE (Business Analytics Society of Educators), Data Science Philippines and Global Chamber Manila.

There are so many amazing things happening right now in the Philippines that about a year ago seemed to be distant horizon stuff. Its both amazing and a little scary to think where things might be a year for now. Let alone 5.

So the birth of the 2.5 year strategy plan is here.

By 2017, my goal was to make DMAIPH one of the top names in analytics in the Philippines. Mission accomplished.

By 2020, my goal is to make DMAIPH “the” top name for analytics training in the Philippines.

Come along for the ride!

Business Strategy with Analytics – Aligning a business strategy to drive an organization forward requires a robust analytics solution. Businesses who have good analytics tend to be much more profitable and efficient then ones that do not. DMAIPH has helped dozens of companies in both the U.S. and the Philippines with adding more data analysis in their business strategy. We have joined up with our key business partner PMCM Events Management to showcase our solutions at #TechToniPH in July 2017. Contact DMAIPH now at analytics@dmaiph.com or connect with me directly to find out what we can do to help you align your business strategy with analytics.

Sales Analytics Tip: How To Size Your Market

The Sales Champ, Jonathan Petalver, and the Analytics Guru, Dan Meyer, will be conducting a two day workshop on Sales Analytics on July 24-25 in Ortigas.

https://dmaiph.com/analytics-solutions/sales-analytics-quantitative-results-through-qualitative-approaches/

One of the tips we will share with attendees is our strategies for assessing the size of your market. Every business, every product or service, every salesperson has a unique market that it is trying to capture.

As analytics guru, Bernard Marr said, “If you don’t understand the size and potential of your market you can easily jump to conclusions about how viable your business proposition is. Market size analytics is the process of working out how large the market is for your products and services, and whether there is sufficient growth potential.”

The size of your market can be measured terms of volume (how many units sold), value (money spent in that market) or frequency (how often a product or service is sold). It is important to start to gather data points like these and track them over time. You will be able to build a strategy built on numbers, not just gut feel or your best guess.

Useful data includes government data, trade association data, financial data from competitors, and customer surveys. You will be surprised how much data is available just by doing a google search. They you can look at sites that produce and share data for free. And finally you might even consider buying data for your analytics.

Another important tip Just because a market is large doesn’t mean it’s profitable – especially if most of the customers that want a particular product or service already have one and are unlikely to want another. A lot of people get caught up in the width of the market, but forget about the depth. Sales analytics will help you determine opportunity in both dimensions.

Analytics in the Philippines – The Philippines is at the center of the action when it comes to solutions to the global need for analytics. Blessed with a solid foundation of young, educated and English speaking workforce, companies around the world are look for Filipino analytics talent to fill analytics positions. DMAIPH was set up to facilitate these solutions and bring the talent and the business together. And that is exactly why I wrote Putting Your Data to Work, the first analytics guidebook designed specifically for the Philippines. Contact DMAIPH now at analytics@dmaiph.com or connect with me directly so we can help you take advantage of this unique global opportunity.

DMAIPH Analytics Apprenticeship Program Starts May 15, 2017

Analytics Apprenticeship Program Starts May 15, 2017

This is a 3-6 month, paid apprenticeship program that will provide in-depth and hands on training with a range of analytics skills needed across various industries today. At the end of the apprenticeship, you will a very strong change of staying with DMAIPH or being referred to one of our key business partners.

We are looking for 3-4 highly motivated, tech savvy, young professionals or fresh grads to join our program. Past apprentices have gone on to have successful analyst careers in a wide range of companies including HP, Emerson, Citibank, Wells Fargo and

Skills all analysts will learn

How to apply the DMAI methodology of business analytics
Advanced Excel Skills like Pivot Tables, Marcos, Formulas and Data Visualization
Using Tableau for Business Dashboards
Using SQL and R for Predictive Analytics
The key aspects of Data Storytelling

In addition, each track will focus on specific skill sets including but not limited to:

Business Analyst

Analytics Assessment Facilitation
Project Planning and Documentation
Management Metrics Reporting

Finance Analyst

Financial Forecasts
Budget Planning
Expense Tracking & Reporting

Events Management Analyst

Competitor Intelligence
Market Research
Lead Generation, Tracking and Reporting

Compensation package is dependent on experience and skills, but in the range of P20,000 a month.

Interested applicants should send an updated resume to danmeyer@dmaiph.com as well as plan on attending a group interview exercise on April 29 in Ortigas. Group interviews will be held from 10am-12noon and from 5pm-7pm at Unit 1704 Prestige Tower on Emerald Ave (F. Ortigas Jr. Rd) at the office of IBA.

Analytics Jobs – DMAIPH hires, refers and connects Filipino analytics talent. The Philippines is at the center of the action when it comes to solutions to the global need for analytics. Working with DMAIPH to find work, hire analytics talent or set up analytics teams will ensure you are tapped into the best of the best when it comes to analytics in the Philippines. Contact DMAIPH now at analytics@dmaiph.com or connect with me directly to find out how to take advantage of this booming opportunity.

The Rock Stars of Data: Big Data Analytics & Data Management

How to master big data analytics and data management?

The Rock Stars of Data: Big Data Analytics & Data Management

2-day Class: Big Data Analytics and Data Management

June 27-28, 2017

Discovery Suites, ADB Ave., Ortigas Center, Pasig City

9AM-5PM

Rock Stars of Data Series: Big Data Analytics & Data Management

Data Rock Stars Dan Meyer (DMAIPH) and Dominic Ligot (Cirrolytix) have joined forces to offer a unique training focusing on both the Analysis and the Management of Big Data.

To find out more about our next scheduled public learning session on May 18-19, 2017 in Ortigas or to set-up an in-house training, send an e-mail to analytics@dmaiph.com

Learning Session Description

Building The Data Value Chain. Data is pervasive – everything we do in the modern world uses and generates data in some shape or form: from web sites we surf, the social media we consume, to the mobile devices we use to connect and communicate. Modern businesses also use and generate data, from financial data, to customer data, to transaction data and sensor data.

But data is only a raw material. Regardless of amount, the real importance of data is only determined by the value people and businesses derive from it. Getting data is the first step. Then the challenge becomes transforming the raw material into a processed good: information. Information enables decisions, and decisions create value.

This session is about the basics of transforming data into information: the data value chain. Attendees will learn how to identify the right data, about how data can be efficiently stored, then transformed into a friendly form for analysis, and finally how data analysis can yield insights.

This seminar will lightly touch on each aspect of data identification, collection, storage, transformation, and analysis and involve hands-on use of common data management and analysis tools such as Excel, Tableau and SQL, but is designed for those with little to no prior experience with these tools.

Learning Session Objectives

Apply cutting edge technologies to organize, interpret, and summarize Big Data in your business.
Create a process to analyze data and identify patterns not apparent at first glance
Understand the components of The Data Value Chain: Ingestion, Storage, Transformation, Analysis – and how they are all important to deriving value from data.
Learn database manipulation and processing basics using the Structured Query Language (SQL)
Connect a data analysis tool such as MS Excel or Tableau to a database to be able to perform analysis on processed and stored data

In this session, your organization will be able to use:

Specific skills to effectively frame the problem you’re addressing to uncover key opportunities and drive growth
Critical marketing steps of orientation necessary before engaging tools and technology
How to simply and quickly amplify decision making by separating the signal from the noise
A framework for asking the right questions, allowing the ability to link analytics to business strategy

In this session, your participants will be able to:

Learn the best practices for organizing, summarizing, and interpreting quantitative data
Create a repeatable process for analyzing your data
Shorten the time between analysis and action to avoid “analysis paralysis”
Know how to get from hard data to well-reasoned conclusions

Who Should Attend

Business Analysts, Data Analysts and other Analytics Professionals
Business professionals who are involved in day-to-day analysis of data.
Data analysts who are already performing analysis using spreadsheets but struggle with manual data processing.
Managers of analysts or staff who spend a significant amount of their time collecting, analyzing and reporting data.
IT and Development Staff that work closely with business leaders and decision-makers.

Section One – Big Data—It’s Not Just Size That Matters

Understand the 3 T’s of Analytics: Talent, Technique and Technology.
Describe the importance of effectively, analyzing big data in Business today.
Develop a Data Map to analyze the Big Data in your Business.
Recognize when to employ Descriptive, Predictive or Prescriptive Analytics.
Establish clear objectives when analyzing Big Data.

Section Two – Assess Your Current Analytics Culture

Define What Is an Analytics Centric Culture.
Describe the issues and trends in today’s analytics field.
Discover how to find the most important KPIs.
Learn how to build better management reports.
Optimize your use of MS Excel for Big Data Analytics

Section Three – Using Business Intelligence Tools

An overview of BI Tools.
Tableau Public Demonstration,
Discuss the Concept of Data Visualization.
Build A Business Dashboard Prototype.
Apply a Process to Present Big Data Clearly.

Section Four – Interpreting Your Data and Analysis

Articulate the importance of accurately interpreting Data.
Determine how to validate your data analysis.
Mitigate and analyze Risk, Uncertainty, And Probability.
Spot patterns and trends through Statistical Analysis.
Use findings from Big Data to Drive Decisions within your Organization.

Section Five: Presenting the Data Value Chain and Databases

Discuss the components of The Data Value Chain and the various users and roles involved in transforming data to value: Database and ETL engineers, Data analysts, Business users.
Learn about basic data architecture and the role of databases in processing data.
Understand the basics of databases, tables and views.
Learn about the Structured Query Language (SQL) and SELECT statements.

Section Six: Data Processing with SQL

Discuss the additional value that can be derived from using SQL for Data Processing.
Go into detail on various ways of processing and preparing data using SQL.
Learn about aggregates, conditions, how to join tables, and run queries within queries.

Section Seven: Accessing SQL Tables with Excel

Learn about Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) and how Excel uses ODBC to connect to external data sources.
Discover how SQL tables and views can be read by Excel into instant Pivot Tables and Pivot Graphs.
Understand how changes in database table or view via SQL Inserts, Deletes, and Updates are reflected on Excel.

Section Eight: Performing analysis of SQL-based data using Excel

Learn about how SQL data can be dissected using the Data Analysis functions in Excel.
Talk about form tools and macros that can automate manual reporting.
Discuss tips for reporting and sharing the results of your analysis.

Minimum Hardware and Software Requirements.

Laptop with Intel Core i3 and 4GB RAM.
Windows OS with Excel 2007 or greater.
ODBC and database connections will be provided during class.

Case Studies and Exercises

Dan and Doc will use case studies and group exercises throughout the two-day class. In these activities, the group is divided into teams. Each team will analyze datasets using the principals learned in the various learning sessions. These exercises will also use elements from the case studies as we progress from finding data, to conducting analysis on the data and finally presenting the data.

Learning Investment for 2-day Seminar:

Exclusive Offer!!

Early Bird Rate

P 12,000.00 + VAT

(Pay the full amount on or before April 20, 2017)

Group Rate (Minimum of 5)

P13,000.00 + VAT

Regular Rate:

P 14,600.00 + Vat

(starting April 21, 2017)

All investments includes: 2-day Analytics Seminar with two of the most in-demand Analytics and Data Management Guru in the Philippines, complete with Training Materials, AM/PM Snacks, Lunch and Certificates.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Dominic Ligot, Data Scientist

Doc’s areas of expertise focus on Fintech, Big Data Analytics, and Digital Transformation.

Click here to see Doc’s full speaker/trainer profile >>>

Daniel Meyer, Analytics Champion

Dan specializes in a variety of analytics themed training and speaking option including HR& Recruitment Analytics, Data Analytics, Data-Driven Decision-Making and Analytics for CEO’s.

Click here to see Dan’s full speaker/trainer profile >>>

Reserve your seat here >>>

Decision-Making with Data Learning Session with Ariva Events

This coming Friday, March 31, in Ortigas, I will be Data-Driven Decision-Making for Executives, Managers and Leaders. I will focus on proven strategies of data mastery go a long way to becoming a Data-Driven Leader.

This master class is for you if you feel like you’re drowning in data and unsure which data to use to drive your companies decision-making processes.

Information is supposed to make decision-making faster and easier, but more often than not, it simply overwhelms our ability to accurately use the data we have in our business.

The truth is that the amount of data available to help run your business is greater than ever before. To effectively use this information, exeuctives, managers and leaders must consider the practical side of big data and how best to use it to make better decisions…because what matters to you is how do you grow and build a team to make smarter decisions. Much of the information out there just discusses the promise of the data deluge.

The challenge is not the volume of data but rather the judgment needed to use it. This learning session is specifically designed for executives, managers and leaders to learn techniqeues that will ensure reliable business decisions can be made based on the massive amounts of data at your fingertips.

Through a series of case studies, exercises and interactive lecture, we will cover the following:

Specific skills to effectively frame the problem you’re addressing to uncover key opportunities and drive growth
Critical marketing steps of orientation necessary before engaging tools and technology
How to simply and quickly amplify decision making by separating the signal from the noise
A framework for asking the right questions, allowing the ability to link analytics to business strategy

Attendees will also be able to learn how to do the following things for their team:

Learn the best practices for organizing, summarizing, and interpreting quantitative data
Create a repeatable process for analyzing your data
Bring out patterns in data that were not apparent at first glance
Identify and explain tools for data analysis
Shorten the time between analysis and action to avoid “analysis paralysis”
Know how to get from hard data to well-reasoned conclusions

There are still seats available, contact me at danmeyer@dmaiph.com so I can connect with you my events partner, Ariva.

http://www.ariva.com.ph/data-driven-decision-making/

Radio DWDD today @ 11am – The Analytics of Blogging

Blogging has been around for quite some time now, but many who venture into blogging do not realize who is reading their blogs, what are they reading, why are they visiting and reading their blogs, and so on.

So, today I have the honor of being a special guest on DWDD to help listeners go through the realms of the analytics of blogging.

The topics I plan on covering include:
– What is analytics?
– What title/position/employee is involved in anlytics?
– What university/college course do you take to learn analytics?
– What kind of companies uses analytics?

And Blogger-specific topics will include:
– Should bloggers learn to use analytics?
– Why use analytics in blogging?
– How does a blogger begin to use analytics?
– Can analytics make the blogger earn money?

Come join me and my good friends Raffy, Ron and Ian to discuss how to get more data into your blogging efforts. Its easy and for the most part its free.
#TODAY 20th March at 11:00AM, the BLOGGERS’ HOUR talks about Blogging and Analytics, and why bloggers need to start measuring their blogs beyond just views and hits. To help us understand how to do this is Analytics Expert Dan Meyer from San Francisco who has set up shop in the Philippines with his advocacy of teaching Filipinos the art of analytics.

Tweet or post your questions in advance using the Hashtag #BLOGGERSHOUR.

LIKE http://www.facebook.com/bloggershour to be notified when the Facebook LIVE stream begins.

Tune in to DWDD 1134 kHz AM or live streaming via http://www.dwdd.com.ph or http://www.ustream.tv/channel/dwdd-katropa-live.

TWITTER:

Listen to the #BLOGGERSHOUR talk radio show, Monday 20th March 11:00AM as we talk about blogging & analytics with Dan Meyer @BPOElite1

Stone Age Analytics

I was chatting with a friend about Peter Drucker’s famous quote, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.”

He made a point that made me think this lesson is still hard to actually put into practice even though it’s a 50+ year old concept. In fact the idea that a good culture is more important than a good strategy is as probably as old as man.

My reply was the best run caves where probably run by the caveman with the most efficient hunters and gathers, who felt a common purpose that their leader empowered in them.

In many senses, analytics has been around since day one. Even before we had basic math, just by observation cave men that survived told stories to explain where the best hunting grounds where and things like saber toothed tigers are bad for your health.

Centuries before Lean and Six Sigma, human engaged in process improvement. And Im sure the smartest cave man (or woman) in the cave ended up being the data guy who did some kind of simple analytics to advice the chief on who was the best hunter and who was the best candidate to use as bait to stampede a mammoth into a box canyon.

My point is, analytics is not anything new. In fact most businesses don’t have good analytics because they think its too complicated and too expensive. Now maybe employing a data scientist to build a state of the art predictive modeling tool, is a bit to Space Age for some, but everyone needs to have at least Stone Age Analytics.

That’s where DMAIPH comes in. We specialize in helping companies who feel like their analytics are stuck in the Stone Age evolve.

Analytics Training – DMAIPH offers a wide range of analytics centric training solutions for professionals and students via public, in-house, on-site, and academic settings. We tailor each training event to meet the unique needs of the audience. If you need empowerment and skills enhancement to optimize the use of analytics in your organization, we are here to help. Contact DMAIPH now at analytics@dmaiph.com or connect with me directly to set up a free consultation to learn which of our DMAIPH analytics training solutions is best for you.

HR & Recruitment Analytics: Win The Talent War (Mar 28 in Ortigas)

Updated 11/19/16

It’s pretty clear to anyone who is paying attention that the current talent acquisition challenges facing BPO’s in the Philippines is getting worse at an alarming pace.

This trend is echoed across the planet as we have had a global failure in approaches to preparing the youth for the careers we need them to fill. There are several initiative underway in the Philippines to address this, but at this point its just a drop in the bucket when you look at the projections for talent with analytics skills, management potential and a strong work ethic.

Check out our next training on March 14 in Ortigas. Here is the link >>>

I recently came across this post on LinkedIn that outlined 5 things that we need to work together to do to make sure the generation hitting the workforce now and especially the generation now in school, ready for prime time.

The talent shortage is particularly serious at the middle-management level as companies dither over how to develop high-potential entry-level employees into more senior roles within their organisations.

Solving it requires planning for the long-term and building a talent investment strategy into the corporate culture, which suggests that solving the talent shortage calls for new thinking, new approaches, and collaboration on an industry-wide scale.

Relying on the traditional education path – universities – to fill the talent needs won’t work because that will take years. We a faster solution – one that combines a multi-pronged approach, and one that is collaborative across all players in the business.

The article concludes with five ways of helping to solve the talent crisis threatening companies small and large all across the globe.

Industry collaboration: Industry leaders joining forces to work with universities, colleges and trade associations to develop specific education programs to fill the expected openings.
Expanded in-house and external education options: A growing number of firms are developing their own education programs making full use of senior existing internal expertise.
Job rotation programs: A ‘talent exchange’ rotation to promote cross-functional development, which would also keep employee interest.
Formalised knowledge transfer: Capturing people’s knowledge before it “literally walks out of the door” into retirement.
Becoming an employer of choice: Taking steps to ensure that the company is an attractive place to work by providing competitive salaries linked to a valued career path.

DMAIPH can help you by consulting with your management team on how to get ahead of the curve, by providing training to your team on how to optimize your talent acquisition an retention programs and/or by providing you with talent to fill your open positions.

HR & Recruitment Analytics – The recruitment and retention of top talent is the biggest challenge facing just about every organization. You really have to Think Through The Box to come up with winning solutions to effectively attract, retain and manage talent in the Philippines today.

DMAIPH is a leading expert in empowering HR & Recruitment teams with analytics techniques to optimize their talent acquisition and management processes. Contact DMAIPH now at analytics@dmaiph.com or connect with me directly to learn how to get more analytics in your HR & Recruitment process so you can rise to the top in the ever quickening demand for top talent.

The Three T’s of Recruitment Analytics (next training on Mar 28 in Ortigas)

I often talk about how having good recruitment analytics takes a combination of the right talent, the right technology and the right technique. As a talent management professional, I am sure you have valuable insight into which of the 3 T’s you see as your organizations strongest and weakest point. From your perspective, is it:

Talent: You have to have people who get the recruitment process that are curious, comfortable playing with data and are good communicators. That have to be able to identify data, analyze it and provide actionable reports.

Technology: You need tools to help you leverage the opportunities stored in your recruitment data. The tools need to take data from different sources and blend it into a central analysis tool. The results should be displayed in reports and business dashboards that allow managers and decision-makers to act quickly and efficiently.

Technique: Your entire team needs to be part of the analytics process. Analysts can do the bulk of the work, but everyone needs to be empowered to use data to discover patterns, exploit opportunities and mitigate risks.

Which one of the three is the one your team has the biggest challenges with?

In my experience, most recruitment teams have good talent in place, and many have the technology they need to be successful. The missing element is often technique. Few recruitment teams are truly skilled in using analytics to get the right candidates, one’s who will stick around, at the right time.

Infusing recruitment teams with tried and true analytics techniques in one of my specialties. Connect with me and I will show you how to get more bang for your buck when it comes to filling open positions and keeping them filled.

Join us for our next training on March 14 in Ortigas. Click here for more details >>>

Introduction to Recruitment Analytics

A standard definition of Recruitment Analytics is simply the metrics and analysis that relates to recruiting in a business.

However, we all know it’s actually a lot more challenging in practice.

When did you start first thinking about analytics in your recruitment process?

From my experience very few recruitment professionals actually have a solid grasp of how to use the data in their business to drive recruitment related decision-making.

Adding to the lack of analytics knowledge, we have new technologies like social networks, applicant tracking systems and business intelligence applications that are fundamentally changing the entire recruitment process from sourcing to placement.

What are some of the recent technological changes you have seen in recruitment? Are you using technology to your advantage?

Most of your peers are not. Based on my observations and interactions I’d say only about 20% of companies currently operating in the Philippines are using anything beyond MS Excel to manage their talent pipeline.

This is true even though the pressure to deliver results has never been greater.

Recruitment managers are now more than ever required to demonstrate the return on investment their efforts are contributing to the bottom line.

Now we are starting to see a wide spread interest in bringing more analytics into the recruitment process.

Are you expected by your boss to find ways to use analytics to bring about change with recruitment in your organization?

Every recruiting organization is looking for a way to better understand what’s working and what’s not working in their recruiting strategy.

With real-time recruitment metrics & reporting, we can finally know what’s happening in our pipelines and what channels provide us with most qualified candidates.

I often say recruitment here in the Philippines is one of the hardest jobs on the planet. Given the great demand for skilled labor and the lack of day one ready talent, there is just not enough supply to go around.

So wondering where do you start?

Some of the typical questions we all start out with when we think about analytics and recruitment include:

What metrics are important to my organization?

What are the metrics which enable me to measure my team’s effectiveness?
Which tool should I use to have better analytics?
How can I understand the ROI (return on investment) of my recruiting efforts?

If you are ready to answer these questions, then connect with me and we will provide you with An Introduction to Recruitment Analytics.

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Analytics Training – DMAIPH offers a wide range of analytics centric training solutions for professionals and students via public, in-house, on-site, and academic settings. We tailor each training event to meet the unique needs of the audience. If you need empowerment and skills enhancement to optimize the use of analytics in your organization, we are here to help. Contact DMAIPH now at analytics@dmaiph.com or connect with me directly to set up a free consultation on which of our DMAIPH analytics training solutions is best for you.

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