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Only 9 percent of businesses surveyed by the Institute of Management Accountants said they have completely implemented their desired analytics techniques and technologies.

**What stage of implementation of leading-edge analytics techniques and technologies is your organization at right now?**

**58 percent:** “We’re working on it—it’s still being implemented.”

**23 percent:** “We’ve only just begun.”

**9 percent:** “Completely implemented.”

**6 percent:** “Not sure.”

**4 percent:** “Still in the scoping-out stages.”

*Source: Institute of Management Accountants,**[The Data Analytics Implementation Journey in Business and Finance (opens in a new tab)](https://www.imanet.org/insights-and-trends/the-future-of-management-accounting/the-data-analytics-implementation-journey-in-business-and-finance?ssopc=1)**, January 2019*

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