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As we’ll discuss in Chapter 1, the Sentient Enterprise is the result of two very distinct but complementary perspectives on big data and analytics. For one of us (Mohan), the understanding of data’s pivotal role in business has grown through many years as an academic researcher and corporate adviser. For the other (Oliver), the perspective comes from a long career as a technology executive and practitioner trying to manage the rewarding, often challenging, relationship a company keeps with its data and technology over time.

The two of us first compared notes in November 2013, and we have been iterating our way through this maturity model ever since. Our initial “aha” moment over a dinner meeting near Chicago was made all the more enticing by how fully our perspectives seemed to dovetail despite two very different careers. We aligned on how the right combination of technology, governance, and human engagement can launch enterprise analytics to new heights while preserving the coveted start-up-style agility that tends to atrophy at scale.

What was missing, however, was a framework for understanding and optimizing this alchemy so it can be replicated by any company with the vision and resources to try. After several years of joint collaboration and research, that framework now exists as the Sentient Enterprise, and this book is its manifesto.

Consider the Sentient Enterprise your road map for harmonizing analytic power, business practices, and human dynamics in ways that have already begun to transform and supercharge what’s possible for big data and the industries that leverage it well. Inspired by our own progressive understanding of these trends over our careers and by the collaborative alchemy that has brought that evolution to the point we’re at now, we’re able to present the Sentient Enterprise to you as a viable framework for analytic agility, ready for application to your own business.