Appleseed Analytics 4S Model
Like plants, every company needs four things to grow. Our proprietary 4S framework is how we think about serving your organization with products and services that help you meet your goals.
Seeds are your ideas. Your ideal future state. They are the stuff of inspiration, vision, and opportunity. Seeds are the unrealized intellectual capital that will help you win. Are yours optimized and aligned?
Soil is where seeds die or grow. What technology do you use? What processes and policies work well (or don’t)? What are your regulatory, financial, and market constraints? What is the culture like at your company? Soil is the technical and organizational environment.
Sun is the ultimate nutrient. In the modern workplace there is one thing which cultivates good ideas and weeds out bad ideas better than anything else: data. Data makes or breaks business cases, it helps you learn, and it demonstrates your wins. Data makes seeds grow. Is yours good enough?
Sweat differentiates you from competitors. Sweat is effort and capability; it’s the skills, abilities, and smarts your team shows up with every day. And it’s something you are constantly building to stay ahead of your competition.