A study of 2,719 business executives, managers and analytics professionals from around the world found that the most significant problem to creating business value from analytics is not data management issues or complex data modeling skills. It was translating analytics into business actions and making business decisions based on the results.
Raising the Bar With Analytics; MIT Sloan Management Review; David Kiron, Pamela Kirk Prentice, & Renee Boucher Ferguson (2013)