Most International Development organisations (IDO) and Non-governmental Organisations (NGO) have access to a wealth of data but struggle to make sense of or even access the relevant insight to enable well informed decision making. Read how the Insights-Driven Action Prioritisation (IDAP) methodology will enable you to instil trust in stakeholders whilst anticipating their needs.
Challenges are common when NGOs and IDOs are generating insights from data
From our experience with NGOs and IDOs, we commonly see inefficient processes, inaccurate decisions and, in the worst case, redundant investments as the results of misinformation. Too often this is down to challenges that include siloed, inharmonious data, too many dashboards, which are not addressing the correct requirements, and in some cases backlogs of ad-hoc data requests getting out of control. The true value of holding so many data, to become insight driven, comes when organisations can gather the right insights, from the right data, which drive business actions.
Anticipating future trends will help to drive decisions for NGOs and IDOs
IDAP Insights-Driven Action Prioritisation is a methodology based on stakeholder’s interests and needs, whilst factoring in objectives. IDAP can help NGOs and IDOs translate strategy into action by improving access to the resulting information and enabling insight driven decisions, leveraging existing technologies without spending time to create complex statistical models or algorithms.
The outputs will depend on the use case, it may involve analysing projects in different regions against chosen criteria and deciding to reallocate resources because of this, in turn allowing the organisation maximise impact for the same cost. IDAP considers different actions, that can be taken for a specific user, and decide on the optimal way forward.
How can NGOs and IDOs develop this in practice?
In order to make prioritised actions a reality within NGOs and IDOs follow these five steps. Applying these five steps and implementing an IDAP approach will increase digital experience through allowing for a greater diversity on content accessible from fewer channels, at a greater granularity.
Undergoing digital transformations can make significant improvements to NGOs and IDOs daily operations, increasing experience of stakeholders, partners and employees, and thus will result in innovation and positive impact. Deloitte can provide support with the process of the initial development of IDAP and put processes in place for IDAP to be embedded within NGOs and IDOs in the future leveraging existing technologies.