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Your Problem-Solving Team’s New MVP: Advanata

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Solving business problems requires a solid team. Each participant brings strengths and limitations that together drive the solution. In this article, we show how Advanata can play a key role in guiding the team to a precise, optimal, and actionable solution for the customer’s business problem.

Meet the Team

The customer acts as team captain, supported by participants who help solve the business problem. While individuals often have skills spanning multiple roles, this discussion assumes each participant represents only a single type of team member.

Customer has business understanding but lacks analytical forecasting and novel option ideas. Analyst has analytical forecasting but lacks problem framing and solution optimization. Machine has solution optimization but doesn't have problem definition and problem-solving consistency. Consultant has novel option ideas but no conclusive decisions and quantitative answers.

Conventional Teams

Working with an analyst produces quantitative outputs after a lengthy process of bridging communication gaps and translating the problem. Even then, results often misalign with the true problem and provide little beyond insights and supporting data.

Customer problem-solving with an analyst has business understanding and analytical forecasting but lacks problem framing, solution optimization and novel option ideas. Lengthy problem framing delivers quantitative outputs without clear actions.

Working with a consultant broadens the problem space and introduces innovative options beyond the customer’s expertise. However, these options are rarely quantitatively grounded, and conclusive recommendations are seldom provided.

Customer problem-solving with a consultant has business understanding and novel option ideas but lack analytical forecasting, conclusive decisions and quantitative answers. Extended effort yields novel qualitative ideas without clear decisions.

Working directly with a machine is risky unless the customer can precisely adapt the problem to its input requirements and has the expertise to extract and verify the correct answer.

Problem-solving with a customer and machine has business understanding and solution optimization but lack analytical forecasting, novel option ideas, problem definition and problem-solving consistency. Inability to clearly define the problem produces meaningless results.

Adding Advanata to the Team

Advanata adds two key elements: a clear, easy to use framework that maximizes participant contributions and a reliable optimization engine that delivers precise, optimal solutions beyond traditional analytics.

Advanata supports the customer, analyst and consultant with problem framing and problem definition. Precise problem framing maximizes participant input and produces actionable solutions. It replaces the role of the machine by providing solution optimization and problem-solving consistency. Enhances results by finding the optimal actionable solution.

The customer working alone with Advanata can solve the majority of their business problems and quickly arrive at precise actions to solve their problem.

Advanata basic is problem-solving only with the customer. Business understanding, problem framing, problem definition and solution optimization are all provided along with partial analytical forecasting but no novel ideas. This rapidly delivers precise, actionable solution for most business problems such as what products should we stock.

Adding an analyst enhances analytics capabilities, enabling the solution of more complex business problems with similar speed and precision.

Advanata intermediate also adds an analyst to the team and allows for business understanding, problem framing, problem definition, solution optimization and full analytical forecasting but still lacks novel option ideas. Quick delivery of exact, actionable outcomes even for complex business challenges such as what products should we discount.

Adding a consultant expands the solution scope with innovative options, enabling the resolution of problems beyond typical business challenges.

Advanata advanced adds a consultant to the team and now we have business understanding, problem framing, problem definition, solution optimization, analytical forecasting and novel option ideas. This efficiently delivers actionable, innovative solutions beyond typical business problems such as what prodcuts should we innovate.

The Dream Team

Advanata is the teammate that unites the team and elevates performance. Its solution framework is designed to maximize each member’s contribution, enabling the team not only to achieve precise, actionable results quickly but also to go beyond typical analytics and identify optimal actions to reach the desired outcomes.

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