TakingPoint by Brent Gleeson

Author:Brent Gleeson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Touchstone

For example, Amazon Prime uses data to ensure on-time delivery of their products. Similarly, SEAL Teams use data and intelligence to ensure the on-time delivery of “hot lead” to terrorists’ bodies. It’s basically the same thing!

Data matters. Intelligence matters. Alignment matters.

And so does establishing the competence and freedom to use data in order to adapt and respond to challenges in real time. SEAL Teams have to do it to stay alive and defeat the enemy.

So do you, and so does your organization.

In KPMG’s biannual global CFO survey (which they reference in this report), respondents saw big data and analytics as critical for implementing “lean finance” strategies (optimizing finance processes for minimizing inefficiencies, reducing unnecessary costs, and improving speed, flexibility, and quality). This is the core reason that we replaced the CFO and our entire finance team during one of my company’s transformations. We needed to gather and organize business intelligence and the skill to extract actionable insights. We lacked the ability for our finance function to play a proactive strategic role. And even though people and culture must maintain a position of priority in any high-performance organization, so too must financial and operational data.

Forty-one percent of the high-performing survey respondents also cited big data and analytics as “extremely important” as an enabler of lean finance and decision-making mechanisms. SEAL Teams act on intelligence—literally and figuratively. Information comes in from sources that have been developed, local assets, allied forces, agency partners, and civilian organizations. Intelligence forms the basis of the mission SEAL Teams are assigned to complete, and it is the raw material of which those missions are constructed.

But no matter how high-quality the intelligence is, no SEAL Team ever expects a mission to run according to a script. Even if all the intelligence pieces are right on, people change, situations change—and enemies react in unpredictable ways. So the basis of SEAL training and preparation is to practice for a seemingly endless variety of contingencies.

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