The 3DM6 Strategy emphasizes four key components that will help you achieve your goals:

• Defining Objectives: While defining objectives may seem standard, the 3DM6 Strategy provides a unique approach to ensure that objectives are directly linked to impactful decisions, supporting analysis, and complete solutions.
• 3DM6 Decision Analysis: Identify and improve impactful decisions that will help achieve your objectives. Understanding the characteristics of these decisions aids in solution design and change management.
• 3DM6 Essential Analysis: Regardless of the business or objective, essential analysis steps should be performed early and often.
• 3DM6 Framework Analysis: Design and implement complete solutions by ensuring that all six components necessary for successful decision-making are present and interconnected.

These components can be performed in any order. The key is to start early and revisit them often, as each step informs the others.

Achieve a state of continual improvement by intentionally applying all four components of the 3DM6 Strategy:

• Develop minimal but complete solutions.
• Organize mega projects into manageable phases and milestones, focusing on business value rather than technology.
• Leverage feedback loops to uncover opportunities for improvement.
• Adapt solutions to evolving circumstances.

Maintaining a transparent view of the solution across disciplines and levels of the organization enables greater support and smoother deployment.

• Visibility of the connected components helps assign accountability and fosters coordination and collaboration across disciplines.
• A clear view of the logic behind insights engages subject matter experts, leading to better solutions, higher adoption rates, and a reduced risk of potentially catastrophic errors.
• Improved ability to explain the solution’s benefits and the work required for implementation increases the level of support.
• The 3DM6 structure creates constraints that encourage, rather than stifle, creativity.

The 3DM6 Strategy empowers business leaders and subject matter experts to take a stronger leadership role, bridging the often elusive gap between business objectives and solution designs.

• Enabled by cross-disciplinary language, business subject matter experts play a more active role in defining objectives, setting requirements for achieving those objectives, and designing complete solutions.
• When technology is appropriate, IT, Data, and Analytics professionals receive requirements at a level that enables them to select the best technology and analytical techniques.
• Ultimately, greater business involvement leads to better solutions and higher levels of adoption

3DM6 Customer-Centric Strategy helps organizations and individuals achieve their objectives.

Individuals and groups across disciplines and levels of the organization can benefit:

• Improved Decision-Making at All Levels: The 3DM6 Strategy aids in making more informed decisions, whether in strategy, operations, or customer service.
• Alignment of Goals and Technology: The 3DM6 Approach aligns organizational goals with the right technology and resources, reducing wasted efforts.
• Increased Accountability and Transparency: Clear accountability and visibility foster collaboration and creativity across areas that might otherwise operate in silos.

Individuals across various roles can benefit from the 3DM6 Strategy:

• C-Suite Executives and Board of Directors: Align the entire organization toward common objectives.
• Chief Data Officer, Chief Analytics Officer: Gain a structured methodology for connecting your work to business objectives.
• Project Managers: Ensure that a project’s ultimate goals are achieved, not just technical tasks.
• Solution Architects: Gain a broader perspective on the true scope of data and analytics projects.
• Data Management and Data Governance: Justify investment by connecting governance activities to business value.
• Business Management and Subject Matter Experts: Increase your leadership and ownership. Build stronger business cases.
• Data Scientists: Identify opportunities and ensure your work delivers measurable value.
• Vendors: Describe your product’s value within the customer’s unique business and technical environment.
• Interested Citizens: Understand and interpret data-related stories. As data-driven decision-making becomes more powerful, it will influence society in profound ways.
• Educational Institutions and Students: Benefit from a cross-disciplinary perspective that supports data literacy across programs.

Contact me to discuss how the 3DM6 Strategy could help your organization achieve its objectives with tailored, actionable steps.