Despite the great excitement about big data, better analytics tools, and the vast resources that many organizations are investing in growing their teams and technology, multiple surveys of data analytics groups report that most analytics projects fail to provide real business value. In 2015, Gartner Research estimated that 60% of big data projects would fail over the next two years. Two years later, Gartner analyst Nick Heudecker admitted that they had been “too conservative”: The actual failure rate was “closer to 85 percent”.
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Max Henrion has 25 years of experience as a researcher, educator, software designer, consultant, and entrepreneur, specializing in the design and effective use of decision technologies. He is the Founder and CEO of Lumina Decision Systems. He has led teams to create decision-support tools in a wide variety of applications, including energy, environment, R&D management, healthcare, telecommunications, aerospace, security, and consumer choice. He is the lead designer of Lumina’s flagship product line, Analytica -— the software about which PC Week said, “Everything that’s wrong with the common spreadsheet is fixed in Analytica”.
The Decision Analysis Society awarded Max the 2018 Frank Ramsey Medal – the society’s highest award. It recognizes distinguished contributions to decision analysis, including decision theory, methods, applications, education, and public awareness.