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. The challenges you see and your ideas to turn them into opportunity. They are the unrealized intellectual capital that will help you win.
Soil is where seeds die or grow. What technology do you use? What processes and policies work well (or don’t)? What are the regulatory, financial, and market constraints you operate under? What is the culture like at your company? Soil is your technical and organizational environment.
Sun makes seeds grow; it’s the ultimate nutrient. In the modern workplace there is one thing 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 nurtures seeds. Is yours good enough?
Sweat differentiates you from your competitors. Sweat is effort; it’s the skills, abilities, and smarts your team show up with every day. And it’s something you are constantly building to stay ahead of your competition.