There are as many different ways to structure data teams within organizations as there are BI tools in the marketplace to choose from. If you’re a data leader thinking about how to structure your team for maximum impact, it’s critical to build solid relationships between data practitioners and the people they work with. The data business partner approach enables data practitioners to proactively and strategically collaborate with other team leaders.
When data practitioners work with business
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Many of us data leaders have come of age in a long period of growth, ever-increasing tech valuations, and relative headcount abundance. We are summer’s children, but we’re entering tumultuous
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The modern data stack (MDS) is the defining paradigm informing how new organizations use technology to leverage data. Lots of digital ink has been
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Since September 2021, Emilie has been working at Amplify Partners, an early-stage investment firm, where she is not involved in investment decisions. She has indicated Amplify portfolio companies referenced in
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In the past few years, much has been written about problems like discoverability, observability, data quality, and the need for data teams to become more “engineering oriented” in their mindset.
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Not enough effort has been made to understand the people using data products, what they want to get done, and the broader context in which they operate. I believe there
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Proactively sharing data insights broadly with the people in our organizations encourages engagement and collaboration, brings additional visibility to the data team, and provides a way to work in partnership
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Your team invested a lot of effort into building self-service data tools, but your stakeholders aren’t using it as much as you hoped, or in the ways that you hoped.
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Data teams aim to help the people in their organization make better decisions. Many data teams aren’t doing this as well as they could and are missing out on a
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