
the Future of Intelligence Framework
IDC’s Future of Intelligence research practice helps organizations build strategies to become learning enterprises built on evidence-based cultures. In the Future of Intelligence, organizations will rethink how they define and invest in enterprise intelligence, focusing on approaches that scale.
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Best in Future of Intelligence
This award recognizes the organization that has made impactful positive changes to their enterprise intelligence by innovating around how they synthesize information, how they learn from these insights and share those learnings across the organization, how they deliver insights at scale, and how they develop and promote a data culture.
WHAT IT TAKES
The winner of this category must demonstrate the following competency areas:
- Overall Future of Intelligence
- Information Synthesis. This is the process of taking discrete, objective raw facts about people, places, things, and other entities and organizing them for some useful purpose, usually by the addition of some context.
- Collective Learning. This refers to the awareness about and understanding of the relationships among various pieces of information and previously developed knowledge, and their application to a particular problem. This capacity to learn affects both humans and machines as organizations will systematically convert tacit knowledge in people’s heads into explicit knowledge in systems and then to expose it across the enterprise.
- Insights Delivery. Delivering insights at scale means providing actionable decision support and decision automation functionality for everyone in the enterprise, from executives and managers to analysts and frontline workers (and machines), embedded in their daily work flows. Enterprises will thereby ensure delivery of insights at scale by surfacing actionable information to all users (human or machines).
- Data culture. These organizations have excelled in building a culture around being data-driven. They have demonstrated commitment to improving data literacy and data culture in people, have a stated vision that includes data, have quantified and tracked measurable goals around use of data, and have encouraged data-related collaboration across all levels of the organization.


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Over the last six years, IDC has received over 6,000 nominations – a glimpse of our digital-first world, where Future Enterprises are changing the face of digital transformation as we know it. Is your organization successfully navigating the digital-first world? Join IDC Future Enterprise Awards and find out.
Over the last six years, IDC has received over 6,000 nominations – a glimpse of our digital-first world, where Future Enterprises are changing the face of digital transformation as we know it. Is your organization successfully navigating the digital-first world? Join IDC Future Enterprise Awards and find out.
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