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Trust Analytics
By
Hakimeh Purmehdi
Analytics can help businesses measure and analyze the impact of their actions, identify opportunities for growth and understanding markets, determine the sources of profitability, address risks and improve customer experience.
(This article is inspired by questions we asked ChatGPT)
As the data and analytics are highly valuable for businesses and markets, they are also the key drivers of trust. Therefore, it is important to design data and analytics-based solutions that do not pose privacy risks or cause harm to individuals, but rather facilitates trust between organizations and people.
Trust and trustworthiness are the most important attributes of a business. In order to operate successfully in an increasingly complex digital environment, organizations must provide credible and transparent information, build relationships based on trust, and provide better services and value for customers. This course covers how to design for trust through analytics and how to develop trustworthy products through data-driven decision-making. Students learn about the four dimensions of trust: reliability, truthfulness, appropriateness and transparency.
Trust signaling provides a framework for understanding the impact of attribution, third-party information and trust in relation to the man-in-the-middle attacks that occurred on several companies during the past years. The most fundamental aspect is to improve the attribution process by designing trust mechanisms in analytics products, recognizing the effects that these new methods have on data handling practices, and introducing measures that can mitigate their negative effects.
In today’s business world, companies all rely on analytics despite the lack of trust between parties. Companies need to build trust through analytics to create a more trustworthy environment for all involved. We will explore data and its impact on businesses, markets and ecosystems by looking at how analytics are used to design trust-based business environments and how companies can leverage those processes to build trust with their customers.
Trust-based business environments can be improved by making use of data analytics. Designing for trust means creating an environment that is intended to give the user full control over their personal data, rather than simply collecting it and selling it on to third parties.
Analytics enables businesses and markets to deliver on their promises to customers. By design, analytics is built around trust: users want to trust that the data they use for analytics is reliable and complete, that it is secure and won’t be ruined by integrating third party services. They also want to trust that their preferences for what data to analyze will be respected – even if those preferences do not match those of either their partners or of management.
The trust-based business environment is characterized by increased expectation of transparency and honesty from businesses, consumers, and other stakeholder groups. In order to be successful in the trust-based business environment, companies need to address two main drivers: credibility and credibility preservation. Credibility has long been a cornerstone underpinning trust in business relationships, but recent research indicates that this is not enough to ensure a stable and sustainable relationship between company, consumer, or other stakeholders. The market for trust is demanding more transparency about company behavior than ever before. Investors are losing confidence in companies that fail to earn their trust through complete openness and honest disclosure. Competitors are gaining edge through aggressive strategies that exploit lack of transparency.
Trust is the fuel that powers the Internet of Things and Business 2.0. Companies today are under pressure to design for trust, build trust through analytics, prevent data breaches, deliver services with credibility and build trust with customers in an increasingly digital world.
Trust-based business environments, defined as those where trust is a key driver of interaction and engagement, are in many ways like old-style communities: they define identities, group transactions and develop rules of communication. Trust analytics can support this by bringing focus to fraud detection and verification through analytics, as well as helping organizations build trust through insights into the behavior of their customers and users.
Trust-based business is shaped around the understanding that people are more likely to transact with other people when they feel emotionally safe and secure. This is especially true of customers who have researched their purchase and trust the marketer to do what they say they will.
In the past, a key to success was always knowing your business inside out and being able to have good relationships with your clients. Today, however, that is no longer sufficient. A more prevalent problem is building trust in an environment where customers are more aware of how their personal information is handled and used. This need has created an imperative for businesses to understand the importance of safeguarding privacy and protecting personal data from being compromised.