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Monday, February 11, 2013 News   |   Commentary   |   Slideshows   |   Reports   |   Videos   |   Events   |   RSS Feeds   Chris Murphy   P&G CEO Shares 3 Steps To Analytics-Driven Business Procter & Gamble CEO Bob McDonald is very clear about the critical role for technology at P&G: He thinks better data analytics is at the heart of how P&G will improve productivity and make more innovative products. To McDonald, the change that's coming is a "cultural revolution" -- instead of reacting to historical business results, P&G is trying to use more real-time data and predictive analysis to make better decisions. "We have to move business intelligence from the periphery of operations to the center of how business gets done," McDonald said. But to do that, companies need better analytics software. And that's why McDonald spoke Wednesday night at P&G's Cincinnati headquarters to a gathering of a few dozen top IT leaders from companies including Boeing, BP, Disney, FedEx, GE and Goldman Sachs. P&G's executives, as evidenced in an effort led by CIO Filippo Passerini, think analytics software can get better, faster, if companies together push for software that's more relevant to companies' real business problems. That idea prompted P&G to get IT leaders from different industries together to discuss how they're using analytics. "We want to build a learning consortium of companies who are making business intelligence and analytics a strategic choice, and therefore transforming their business operations," McDonald said. 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