[Infographic] The Ten Secrets of Data-Driven Companies that Maritime Must Know

ALL COMPANIES USE DATA, BUT  DATA-DRIVEN ONES USE IT DIFFERENTLY. HERE ARE SOME OF THEIR SECRETS.

Are you a data-driven company? Do you know what one looks like? Much has been written about the importance of becoming a data-driven company, but less about why it matters. Look no further. As the tanker sector continues to build data and intelligence competencies, we wanted to demystify what it means to be data-driven. We created this infographic The Ten Secrets of Data-Driven Companies That Maritime Must Know to help paint the picture of how a data-driven company works.

For instance, here is secret number 7:

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The Ten Secrets of Data-Driven Companiest that Maritime Must Know

Shareholders ask this of their company’s managers: to make the best possible decisions, in the shortest amount of time and with the least amount of expense.   By being data-driven, a company improves its ability to do all those things, making it healthy, profitable, predictable and more innovative. 

Paul Gunton How Data-driven Companies Outperform the Competition
SECRET #1

YOU NEED SMART DATA AND WISE PEOPLE

Data-driven companies know you need data and people to succeed. Nothing—no amount of data, machine learning or AI—will replace the wisdom and savvy of an experienced maritime executive. But that same executive, with those capabilities at hand? Let’s just say that in the battle between human and machine, human-with-machine beats just-the-machine every time.

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