'The Data Culture Revolution' with Devinka Seneviratne, SMART Session

UNE SMART Region Incubator

UNE SRI Expert-in-Residence, Devinka Seneviratne will explain how data can help your operation.

Peel House Tamworth

SMART Session with Devinka Seneviratne on 'The Data Culture Revolution; How to best navigate the data frontier for business success'In today’s world, data can be one of the most valuable assets your business can have. But where do you start? And what do you do with it?Join UNE SRI Expert-in-Residence, Devinka Seneviratne, for an introductory session on how data can help your operation, including making better decisions, increasing customer retention and more.Suitable for retailers, service-based businesses and tech-driven startups, this session will touch on:- Why conduct data analytics- How to align activities with your business strategy and profit targets- Analysis Paralysis : Why too much data is not your friend- The story behind your dataAt the end of the session participants should walk away with an understanding of why a data culture is a decision culture, how you can begin to leverage basic analytics in your business and present it, and what activities you can implement quickly and simply to commence or accelerate your data-driven decision-making business.About DevinkaData-driven and analytic professional with 12+ years of experience, across a wide range of business environments; seek to continuously drive operational and commercial strategy. I embrace challenges and rapidly changing environments to find short-term workarounds or long-term process improvements, to provide actionable recommendations that assist to drive growth in the business.Skilled with communicating and collaborating with a wide-array of business stakeholders (financial and non-financial business partners) across multiple facets of any business (i.e. Merchandise, R&M, Operations, Commercial, R&D, IT or BI Team, Design and Construction etc.) to drive strategic initiative to ensure revenue/profit growth and ascertain viability of projects (via Payback, IRR or ROI or cash flow modelling)At ease not only with utilising ERP systems (SAP, Tableau, Wbi, Medalia Power Budget etc.) in FMCG, retail and distribution and service industries, I am also highly skilled in building dashboards from scratch in Excel to provide trend analysis and recommendations to senior leadership via succinct and clear presentations. My passion is to utilise operational learning and customer behavioural trends, to assist any business formulate data-led strategic conclusions for future growth.<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/devinka-seneviratne-cpa-45069030/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.linkedin.com/in/devinka-seneviratne-cpa-45069030/</a><a href="http://devinkaseneviratne.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://devinkaseneviratne.com/ </a>

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