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DATA & ANALYTICS FOR MISSION-DRIVEN ORGANIZATIONS

TURN DATA
INTO DIRECTION

Mission-driven organizations are collecting more data than ever, but turning that data into useful insight is where the real work begins. TalentWorks helps teams build and use the data systems, analysis, models, and reporting they need to make smarter, faster, more confident decisions.

We support everything from data strategy and dashboards to predictive modeling, cost and scenario analysis, automation, and embedded analytics leadership, all designed around the questions that matter most: What’s working? What’s changing? What should we do next?

DATA & DECISION STRATEGY

Get clear on what you need to know—and what it will take to know it.
Define the information that matters most: what participants are experiencing, what teams need to improve, what leaders need to decide, and what boards and funders need to understand.
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  • Define the questions, outcomes, and measures that matter

  • Align data collection and reporting to real decision needs

  • Assess systems, data quality, and analytical capability

  • Build a practical roadmap for what to strengthen or build next

PERFORMANCE, COST & DECISION ANALYTICS

Use the data you have to understand what’s working, what it costs, and what to do next.

  • Analyze program, participant, and outcome performance

  • Understand cost-to-serve and cost-per-outcome

  • Model different scenarios for scale, investment, or organizational change

  • Identify patterns, drivers, risks, and opportunities

  • Build predictive models and test performance and fairness where appropriate

DATA SYSTEMS, REPORTING & AUTOMATION

Make reliable information easier to access—and easier to use.

  • Build dashboards leaders and teams actually use

  • Improve reporting, data models, and pipelines

  • Reconcile fragmented or inconsistent data

  • Connect information across systems and sources

  • Use automation and AI where they can meaningfully improve the work

BUILD & LEAD THE ANALYTICS FUNCTION

Sometimes the need isn’t another analysis. It’s the capability itself.
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  • Design the team, roles, and competencies

  • Recruit and assess analytics and technical talent

  • Build, coach, or manage the team

  • Establish priorities, workflows, and operating practices

  • Provide senior fractional leadership while internal capability develops

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