Doing Analytics vs Scaling Analytics

All the views in this article are personal and are not ascribable to any organization that I represent now (or) have been associated with in the past. Analytics, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence has made it to the mainstream vocabulary of every senior executive and becoming "data-driven" are amongst the most commonly stated term in the slide deck of most organizations. Yet there has been a constant struggle in achieving success in these initiatives and based on predictions by Gartner nearly 80% of these projects will never reach deployment. If you ask yourself, "Why?" — one of the most commonly cited reasons is "Culture" (HBR article cited below) which is true but there are other factors that influence as well.