Leveraging design-driven data analytics for business innovation

数据驱动的创新对加拿大企业的竞争力至关重要，也是经济增长的重要来源。随着企业从新冠肺炎疫情中恢复过来，他们可以利用数据来展望和影响未来。企业面临的最大挑战之一是有效利用现代信息系统获取、计算和存储的海量数据，包括互联网、社交媒体、互联设备和传感器技术。中小企业往往缺乏有效设计和实施数据驱动战略的内部专门知识和资源。位于安大略省多伦多的亨伯技术与高级学习研究所(Humber)正在申请NSERC应用研究与技术项目(ARTP)的资金，以用于“利用设计驱动的分析促进商业创新”。我们的专家团队将与公司，特别是中小企业(SME)合作，应对这一全国性的挑战。我们将进行应用研究，开发“设计驱动的数据分析”(DDA)实践和产品，提供强大的竞争优势，刺激地区企业的经济增长。DDA使用跨学科方法将良好设计的原则融入到传统的数据分析中(例如，使用报告和可视化来解释过去发生的事情的分析[描述性分析]，以预测未来)。ARTP支持的行业驱动型项目将通过为市场开发新的设计和数据驱动型产品，以及使用分析提供竞争优势的新流程，增加合作伙伴的收入和降低运营成本，从而为合作伙伴提供经济效益。这些项目将反过来支持对发展议程领域下一代学生创新者的培训，从而形成对高素质人才(HQP)的高需求。

Data-driven innovation is critical to the competitiveness of Canadian businesses and an important source of economic growth. As businesses recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, they can use data to look forward to - and influence - the future. One of the greatest challenges for businesses is effectively utilizing the immense wealth of data acquired, computed and stored by modern information systems, including the internet, social media, connected devices and sensor technology. SMEs often lack the in-house expertise and resources to effectively design and implement data-driven strategies. The Humber Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning (Humber), located in Toronto, Ontario, is requesting NSERC Applied Research and Technology Project (ARTP) funding for "Leveraging Design-Driven Analytics for Business Innovation". Our team of experts will collaborate with companies, especially small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), on this national challenge. We will conduct applied research to develop "design-driven data analytics" (DDA) practices and products, providing a strong competitive advantage and stimulating economic growth in regional businesses. DDA uses an interdisciplinary approach to incorporate the principles of good design into traditional data analytics (e.g., analytics using reports and visuals to explain what happened in the past [descriptive analytics], to predict the future). The industry-driven projects supported by ARTP will provide economic benefits to partners by developing new design and data-driven products for the market, and new processes that use analytics to provide competitive advantages, increasing their revenues and decreasing operational costs. These projects will, in turn, support the training of the next generation of student innovators in DDA, thus developing a high demand for highly qualified personnel (HQP).