Art Versus Analytics: Can Art Enable You To See More?
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Art and analytics are domains that generally live in isolation today. There is a viewpoint that for art to be creative and relevant it has to address the human condition and its emotions and keep as far away as possible from analytical sciences. It certainly should not be on the same planet as the accountancy profession.
Business now has the problem of too much data, too many graphs, too many actionable insights. How do you extract meaning from the terabytes of data drowning every single executive and company employee? Dashboards and KPI’s (Key Performance Indicators) are one dimensional, usually backward looking, and can miss key systemic performance changes.
Could a possible solution be to combine art and analytics to help explain business and its performance within a complex system framework? Thus, moving managements perspective towards managing outcomes and becoming better at communicating what is happening to itself, employees, and other stakeholders. After all, wasn’t one of the world’s greatest artists one of its greatest mathematicians, Leonardo Di Vinci.
Speaker:
Ian Dowson is the Principal of William Garrity Associates Ltd a boutique consultancy specialising in the strategic implications of FinTech, GovTech, and Corporate Development. Producing original research on innovation systems since 2008. Constant themes have been cross domain innovation, design thinking and the use of complexity science.
In his Corporate career he was Financial Director of an 800-unit retail chain, Chief Accountant in the UK and Belgium, for companies Imperial Group and Ladbroke starting his career with Glaxo Plc.
He speaks and writes regularly on FinTech and Digital Innovation, an example “Initial Coin Offerings the search for the Final Function” and has presented at Social Media Week, FinTech Week, FinTech for Good, Digital Shoreditch festival and London Blockchain Week. Ian is qualified FCCA and MBA.
